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NOTICIAS DE LA MAÑANA | Trump reta a Europa, la OTAN encarga misiles antiaéreos y Powell advierteDonald Trump ha exigido que los países europeos contribuyan con unos 100.000 millones de dólares a Ucrania para “igualar” el apoyo estadounidense a Kiev. El magnate y aspirante republicano a la Casa Blanca lo ha dicho y manifestado en  en Truth Social momentos antes de que el presidente estadounidense Joe Biden inaugurara la 75ª cumbre de la OTAN en Washington.La OTAN ha realizado un pedido de misiles antiaéreos Stinger por un valor de casi 700 millones de dólares en nombre de varios estados miembros. El secretario general de la alianza, Jens Stoltenberg lo anunciaba justo en el marco de inicio de la cumbre de la Alianza, y subrayaba que era, precisamente este martes, cuando la agencia de adquisiciones de la OTAN, NSPA, había firmado un nuevo contrato multinacional para misiles Stinger por un valor de casi 700 millones de dólares, en una reunión de líderes de la industria de defensa en el marco de la cumbre. El presidente de la Reserva Federal de Estados Unidos (Fed), Jerome Powell, ha destacado lo logros alcanzados por la FED para devolver la inflación al objetivo del 2%, pero, advertía, que serán necesarios "más datos positivos" que refuercen su confianza antes de bajar los tipos de interés. Ante el Comité Bancario del Senado, Powell lanzaba una advertencia, que mantener las tasas de interés elevadas durante demasiado tiempo podría poner en riesgo un mayor crecimiento económico, lo que aparentemente, podría indica que el banco central está considerando adoptar una postura menos restrictiva.#noticiasdelamañana #noticias #trump #europa #guerra #ucrania #rusia #otan #misiles #armas #eeuu #powell #fed #economia #negociostv Si quieres entrar en la Academia de Negocios TV, este es el enlace:   https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwd8Byi93KbnsYmCcKLExvQ/join Síguenos en directo ➡️ https://bit.ly/2Ts9V3pSuscríbete a nuestro canal: https://bit.ly/3jsMzp2Suscríbete a nuestro segundo canal, másnegocios: https://n9.cl/4dca4Visita Negocios TV https://bit.ly/2Ts9V3pMás vídeos de Negocios TV: https://youtube.com/@NegociosTVSíguenos en Telegram: https://t.me/negociostvSíguenos en Instagram: https://bit.ly/3oytWndTwitter: https://bit.ly/3jz6LptFacebook: https://bit.ly/3e3kIuy

Key topics in this episode:Review of Velocity-Based TrainingCoach Kellie's process for starting a programEstablishing good formWhen to add speed and load componentsKeys to building a programThree main movementsDesigning a weekly programResources:Kellie Moylan: Coach Profile: Kellie Moylan - CTS Cycling CoachArticles for Further Research::Researched Applications of Velocity Based Strength TrainingVelocity-Based Training: From Theory to ApplicationVBT Manipulation & PrescriptionMore Great Resources:https://www.youtube.com/@TheMovementSystemStrength vs Hypertrophy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfW86aNuR1QCatylyst Athletics Library: https://www.catalystathletics.com/exercises/ASK A QUESTION FOR A FUTURE PODCASTGuest: Kelly MoylanKellie Moylan is a performance coach who works with athletes throughout the world. She has been coaching endurance sports and strength training for over 20 years. Kellie works one on one with athletes in her own gym with the use of Olympic style weightlifting or portions of the lifts depending on the goals and needs of each athlete. Certifications:USA Cycling Level 1, NSCA USA Weightlifting Level 2 Coach, USA Track and Field Level 3, Certified Sports Nutrition Coach with NSPA, Certified Program Design with NSPA, Certified Weightlifting with NSPA, Certified Speed and Agility NSPA, International Youth and Conditioning CoachHostAdam Pulford has been a CTS Coach for more than 14 years and holds a B.S. in Exercise Physiology. He's participated in and coached hundreds of athletes for endurance events all around the world.Listen to the episode on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, Google Podcasts, or on your favorite podcast platformGET FREE TRAINING CONTENTJoin our weekly newsletterCONNECT WITH CTSWebsite: trainright.comInstagram: @cts_trainrightTwitter: @trainrightFacebook: @CTSAthlete

Key topics in this episode:Weightlifting vs. Strength TrainingHow do we develop strength and power in an athlete at the gym?How does Velocity-Based Training (VBT) work?Kellie's "Train fast to be fast" methodResources:Kellie Moylan: Coach Profile: Kellie Moylan - CTS Cycling CoachArticles for Further Research::Researched Applications of Velocity Based Strength TrainingVelocity-Based Training: From Theory to ApplicationVBT Manipulation & PrescriptionMore Great Resources:https://www.youtube.com/@TheMovementSystemRate Coding: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJLkrdozT6QRate of Force Development: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZlVoH8MWk0 Strength vs Hypertrophy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfW86aNuR1QASK A QUESTION FOR A FUTURE PODCASTGuest: Kelly MoylanKellie Moylan is a performance coach who works with athletes throughout the world. She has been coaching endurance sports and strength training for over 20 years. Kellie works one on one with athletes in her own gym with the use of Olympic style weightlifting or portions of the lifts depending on the goals and needs of each athlete. Certifications:USA Cycling Level 1, NSCA USA Weightlifting Level 2 Coach, USA Track and Field Level 3, Certified Sports Nutrition Coach with NSPA, Certified Program Design with NSPA, Certified Weightlifting with NSPA, Certified Speed and Agility NSPA, International Youth and Conditioning CoachHostAdam Pulford has been a CTS Coach for more than 14 years and holds a B.S. in Exercise Physiology. He's participated in and coached hundreds of athletes for endurance events all around the world.Listen to the episode on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, Google Podcasts, or on your favorite podcast platformGET FREE TRAINING CONTENTJoin our weekly newsletterCONNECT WITH CTSWebsite: trainright.comInstagram: @cts_trainrightTwitter: @trainrightFacebook: @CTSAthlete

In the world of yearbooks, Susan Massy is a pretty big deal. Her program at Shawnee Mission Northwest High School in Overland Park, Kansas, is NSPA's most-winning program of their prestigious Pacemaker awards. Susan herself has received the JEA Lifetime Achievement Award, CSPA's Gold Key, and was the 1999 National Yearbook Adviser of the Year. The Kansas High School Press Association has even dubbed their Student Journalist of the Year award the Susan Massy Award. But Susan doesn't really care about all those awards. As she tells Jim in the interview, “it just feels like you're talking about somebody else. I don't see myself as that person.” What she really cares about is building her program and helping her students live up to their potential. “I don't necessarily care whether we win an award this year. But what I care is that they think they've put out a better book than last year.” And now, after 45 years in the classroom, Susan Massy is retiring. But that doesn't mean she's leaving the yearbook world behind. Her summer is already booked with yearbook workshops and conferences. We haven't seen the last of her. In this episode, Susan chats with host Jim Jordan about her teaching career, scholastic journalism and what it took to build her program. 

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In this episode, host Jim Jordan chats with April van Buren, from Madison East High School in Madison, Wisconsin. April was named an NSPA Pioneer in 2022, NSPA awards to journalism educators who make substantial contributions to high school journalism programs and scholastic journalism education outside their primary employment. They discuss April's journey as an educator, how she finds success at the scholastic journalism programs she instructs, and they even sneak in a quick side conversation about roller derby. 

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This week, Eric discusses the resources and functions of the National Scholarship Providers Association (NSPA) with NSPA Director, Jackie Bright.   Mentions Include:Jackie BrightNSPAEvents/Learning OpportunitiesADNet Summit - Chicago September 14 - 15thAnnual National Conference for Growing Community FoundationsList of All upcoming conferencesAssociations to JoinAdvancement Network (AdNet)CEONetProNetCommACouncil on FoundationsAiPAmerican College of Financial ServicesNational Scholarship Providers Association (NSPA)MusicThanks to Andy Eppler for our intro MusicThanks to David Cutter Music for "Float Away

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legacycares.orgfallingoutlgbtq.cominstagram: @fallingoutlgbtqpodtwitter: @fallinglgbtqMelissa Grove M.S., LPC has served as Executive Director of Legacy Counseling Center, Inc. since 1999, transforming the agency into the largest provider of mental health services for HIV+ people in the South. The Grace Project National Conference for Women Living with HIV she founded hosts 200 HIV+ women annually. Other projects include founding Legacy Founders Cottage, an AIDS care facility, and creating the centralized housing solution, Homebaseforhousing.org website. Her newest program, Legacy Master Leasing, sublets apartments to homeless people living with HIV. Ms. Grove speaks around the nation on issues pertaining to mental health, relationships, muscular dystrophy, HIV and chronic illness She additionally has a private therapy practice in Dallas, TX.She was named the 2014 Public Citizen of the Year through the North Central Texas National Association of Social Workers, and received the 2015 Black Tie Dinner Kuchling Humanitarian Award. Currently Ms. Grove has served on the National Consumer Advisory Committee for the Muscular Dystrophy Association and consults on the STS4HIV Project, a project of the National Institute on Drug Abuse.

Jason Vallejo is the Founder & Executive Director of Elevate North Texas - Youth Emergency Shelter. Elevate North Texas' mission is to fill in the gap of youth homelessness with emergency shelter. They provide a safe, affirming environment through access to immediate shelter and reunification with family, when possible. Jason founded Elevate North Texas in 2020 in the midst of a global pandemic that we know as COVID-19. He saw a gap in the homeless system when it came to youth who were between the ages 18 to 24. While North Texas had transitional living programs for youth in this age range, he knew that there was still no emergency shelter for these youth that would meet the immediate need of youth experiencing homelessness.Jason created three core programs that will allow Elevate North Texas to provide emergency shelter for youth, 18 to 24, experiencing homelessness:1. Hotel Voucher Program: They partner with several hotels here in North Texas to provide hotel vouchers for those youth in immediate need of shelter.2. Host Home Program: They work with trusted families that have a spare room to host a pre-screened youth for up to four months. During this time, youth are provided case management, counseling, and life skills training.3.Reunification Program: They work to reunite youth with family members, when possible, to avoid them entering the homeless system. They also understand that many youth are fleeing abusive and toxic home environments, which is why they emphasize the "when possible." Prior to the founding of Elevate North Texas, Jason was Executive Director of Dallas Hope Charities from November 2017 to January 2020. He led the organization in the creation of the first LGBTQ+ focused transitional living program called Dallas Hope Center. It started with two beds and when he left in 2020 it had grown to six beds.Jason is active in the community serving on the Metro Dallas Youth Committee, LULAC of Dallas, North Texas Human Trafficking Coalition and Dallas LGBTQ Chamber. Prior to moving to Dallas in 2017 Jason was the Outreach Director at a mega church in South Texas. He led the efforts in feeding the homeless and providing back to school supplies for over 3,000 youth.Jason and his husband now live in Plano, Texas and have a dog named Sophie. They enjoy going to movies, Broadway shows, playing golf and working on projects around the house.

Regina Lyn joined the Black Tie Dinner board in Dec of 2019, first serving on the Community Relations Committee. She chaired the committee in 2021 and is now the Jr. co-chair of Black Tie Dinner. In addition to her volunteer role with Black Tie Dinner, Regina works full-time in Sports Entertainment, having cut her teeth in Minor League Baseball as an on-field host, eventually becoming the VP of Game Entertainment, and is currently the Director of Strategic Accounts for Versus Systems. She is also a brand ambassador, freelance producer, and on-camera talent. Regina hosted Riders Insider on FSSW, has been on the Dallas Cowboys Production team for 10 years, is the in-house show Producer for the brand new Major League Rugby team, the Dallas Jackals, and is the Senior Correspondent for the Dallas Voice.instagram: @fallingoutlgbtqpodtwitter: fallinglgbtqwww.fallingoutlgbtq.comwww.blacktie.org

The Reverend Dr. Neil G. Thomas is the Senior Pastor of Cathedral of Hope of Dallas, called and elected by the 4,500-member congregation on April 12, 2015, following a year-long search. He began his tenure on June 3, 2015.  In 2015 he has been granted Privilege of Call in the United Church of Christ.  Prior to his arrival at Cathedral of Hope, Rev. Neil served as Senior Pastor of two Metropolitan Community Churches (MCC); MCC Bournemouth, England (1989-2002) and Founders Metropolitan Community Church, Los Angeles  (2002-2015), the founding church of Metropolitan Community Churches, an international movement of churches reaching in and beyond the gay, lesbian, bisexual, trans, queer, questioning, and inter- sex community.A member of Metropolitan Community Churches since 1981, Rev. Neil has served in numerous denominational positions including Chair, Board of Ordained Ministries (European District); Member, Elder's Task Force on Education; Member, European District Committee; Member, Board of Samaritan College in Europe; Supervising Pastor, and Ecumenical Officer. He has served on the Moderator's Advising Team and consultant to the Office of Formation and Leadership Development.  As a native of Bournemouth, England, Rev. Neil was born into the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. His family left the Mormon Church in his early years. In his 20's, he served as Chaplain to those dying from HIV/AIDS in the Bournemouth area, which led to being an advocate which continues to this day. Rev. Neil is a sought-after speaker and contributor to local, national and international conversations around the intersectionality of faith, color, gender, gender-identity and sexual orientation.Rev. Neil has been a leader with Faith Forward Dallas, which is a diverse coalition of Dallas' faith leaders dedicated to service, hope and a shared vision of peace and justice and serves as a moral compass for the North Texas Community. Rev. Neil is currently co-authoring a book about faith struggles during a pandemic and is highly regarded in the LGBTQIA community not only locally but also throughout the country.On a personal note, Rev. Neil is the father of a young daughter whom he adores.www.fallingoutlgbtq.comhttps://cathedralofhope.com/twitter: @fallinglgbtqinstagram: @fallingoutlgbtqpod

Dillon Bartel was born in raised in Tulsa, Oklahoma. He went to a Christian private school, where he was involved in sports and theater and made many lasting friendships. As an adult, he moved to Dallas where he met his husband and they moved to Seattle in 2015. He is now a gymnastics coach who spends his free time producing music, dancing and cooking.Instagram: @fallingoutlgbtqtwitter: @fallinglgbtqemail: patrickbriankennedy@gmail.com

Paul J. Williams is a gifted comedian, actor and singer based in Dallas.  As a comedian, he has appeared on countless cruises, multiple comedy clubs across the U.S. and on the MTV/LOGO Network comedy special, ONE NIGHT STAND UP.  But, he is most well-known for his “altar ego”, Sister Helen Holy.  As a classically trained tenor, Paul J. has performed with the New York Choral Artists, Orpheus Chamber Singers and Turtle Creek Chorale.  As a hobby, Paul is a classic car buff and currently owns a 1970 Buick Riviera which has won multiple awards.

Roscoe Compton-Kelly serves as Chairman of the Board of Directors of Dallas Hope Charities. He is also a board member with LGBTQ Outdoors and is also as singing member of the world-renowned Turtle Creek Chorale. Roscoe works in the nonprofit sector as the Senior Director of External Affairs at Education Opens Doors, where he leads the cultivation, relationship management and strategy around EOD partners and donors. Roscoe is a Texas native, and currently lives in the Dallas area, with his husband Brian, who is a Dyslexia Interventionist with Dallas ISD.

Danny Vanegas is a DFW based actor, singer, and dancer turned yogi. After studying dance and theatre, he graduated from Black Swan Yoga's 200 hour YTT program in the fall of 2021. Following that, he received his 100 hour registered meditation teacher certification through Yogamu and started teaching at several studios in Dallas such as Corepower yoga and Art of VIII school of dance. Danny's main intention as a yoga teacher is to be able to provide yoga and a mental health outlet to communities that otherwise would not have yoga available to them. In the Fall of 2022 Danny will begin his Yoga therapy certification to further his education !

For as long as he can remember, Cooper Koch has been a storyteller. Usually making people laugh, typically as the butt of most of his own jokes. Professionally, Cooper is also a storyteller. As the founder of PR Firm Cooper Smith Agency, he is trusted with developing and telling the stories of his clients. He is also the Founder and Publisher of He Said Dallas, an online source of things to do, see, buy, enjoy, etc. in Dallas…all from a witty gay perspective, and storyteller on his blog CoopedUp.com and his daily Facebook Live show (weekdays, 4:30 on Facebook). He previously contributed regularly to Huffington Post's Queer Voices section.In 2012, Cooper and his family were featured in a national Father's Day marketing campaign for JCPenney that triggered a boycott from the "Million Moms" and worldwide news coverage of the first-of-its-kind ad. It was the first ever mainstream American ad featuring a real life gay family. 

Aaron Johnson  00:03 Welcome to the fire protection industry FERS virtual Summit. Today I'm here with Gus. Gus, thanks for coming and being part once you go ahead and tell us a little bit about yourself, tell us who you are, where you started, how you got to where you are today and where you're going or what's next.   Gus Gagliardi  00:16 Yeah, so my name is Gus Gagliardi, I'm a registered professional engineer, I work in the construction industry, I do design engineering for a variety of existing and new construction facilities. Started off with a degree in fire protection and safety technology from Oklahoma State, moved on and had a fire suppression role right out of college, and really learned about the nuts and bolts of how to put sprinkler systems together. Spent the last five years almost in my career at FSB, a pretty large, full service any firm in Oklahoma City, the largest think oklahoma city owned firm. So yeah, a lot of hanger work a lot of Department of Defense work high industrial facilities. And then yeah, now I just started a new role as a fire protection engineer at rated engineering, and going to be doing a lot of similar work with the hangars and the DoD work, but also looking to incorporate the full scope of what a fire protection engineer can do as far as work in consulting services. So yeah, that's a little bit about my elevator pitch. Oh, and I didn't mention that. Excuse me, sorry. I am the host of industry, first podcast, fire co tech, where we discuss everything fire protection, and we just basically interview professionals. And we also have solid cast episodes where I do deep dives into topics like codes and standards, specific technologies, and just a variety of fire and life safety topics. So yeah, that's a bit about my career and background in my elevator pitch here. And thanks for having me.   Aaron Johnson  02:09 Awesome. And thanks for being here. So that sounds starting a new thing is always exciting. So I'm glad that for that for you, I'm sure. Sure you have some mixed emotions about that.   Gus Gagliardi  02:18 Oh, yeah. It's been such a blessing. My, my last five years at FSB was so awesome. Like being a part of a firm that's full service. So I got to, you know, work with structural engineers, electrical engineers, mechanical engineers, you know, architects, interior designers. And so it's been great cutting my teeth, with projects and getting to collaborate in house with a variety of design professionals, and just really just to learn so much in the last five years. So it's been tough saying goodbye, these last couple of weeks, but super excited for the new gig and the chance to lean into fire protection some more and, and really discover everything that FP can do. So excited. Excited. Yeah, mix bittersweet, though. You're right.   Aaron Johnson  03:05 Awesome. Yep. Now I've been in where you have to move, or can you stay where you're at and still do the job?   Gus Gagliardi  03:10 No. So my last commute was 18 miles. And this next commute is only four miles. So super stoked to get such a good opportunity. And it's, like 10 minutes away from my house. So with all the lights red, so it's a good deal. I'm stoked on it. So yeah, super excited.   Aaron Johnson  03:30 Awesome. Well, let's get into some other stuff. Thanks for sharing all that. And I'm happy for you looking forward to the new thing that you're going to be doing. So we're gonna come back to your podcast a little bit later, because I want to really dig a little bit deeper into that into this process in what you do. But first of all, tell us about some associations or groups that you're involved in, and what kind of value that you gained from being involved in those groups.   Gus Gagliardi  03:50 You know, actually, I found this most recent job opportunity was for through professional organizations, I'm part of SF PE, you know, I've been a member of a member of NFPA, and National Fire Protection Association, society, fire protection engineers, I love perfect societies, there's so much benefit to be gained from them, like, business is all about personal connections and business connections and genuine connections. And so a great way to develop those connections and maintain that knowledge base that you need as a professional is to be involved in professional societies. You know, that's kind of a core tenet of what we talked about on the podcast is like, how to say professionally relevant and professional societies are a great way to do that. You know, most societies bring in professional leaders to speak about, you know, different topics and things to keep you relevant in what's going on in the industry. And so there's so much to be gained networking and having the opportunity to build a web of professionals that you can leave If you have problems in the industry, that's invaluable. I mean, the ability to say, hey, you know, person that I met individual that I met who's a fire suppression contractor or a fire alarm contractor, you know, I'm not knowledgeable on Vesta, can you? Can you help me out and like some of the design practices for this system are, you know, kind of rough order of magnitude pricing for this system. And so, you know, you really, as a professional to have all the tools that you need for your toolkit, you, in my opinion, have to be involved in professional societies, because if you don't, you're not, you're limiting yourself in your options for how to solve problems. And as a professional, you get paid to solve problems. So that's probably a couple of the biggest advantages I see in being involved in professional societies. I named SFP, NFPA, hfsa, American fire sprinkler Association, nfsa, national fire sprinkler Association, AFA American fire alarm Association. Those are probably some of the biggest ones that throw out free webinars, and I have a lot of relevant system information for my field, but they get super niche, you could go all the way down to specific occupancies. Like there's a whole bunch of hangar specific ones, as I'm sure you know, like MRO facilities, sorry, I got a bug in my throat.   Aaron Johnson  06:31 No problem. But yeah. Awesome. And well, thanks for sharing. That's a lot that I know that alphabet soup can go on for on and on forever. Yeah, no, no, thank you for sharing that. And sharing those associations are, what they are and kind of what you gain from them. So let's go back a little bit and talk about kind of focus more on the podcast on that podcasting. So you said you're your host, and started this podcast. So So why did you do that? Why did you want to do that? What kind of gap in industry? Do you think that it filled? What were what were your motivations for starting that? And kind of what were the steps you took to get that started?   Gus Gagliardi  07:03 Yeah, so I don't think it filled the gap in the industry, but as a professional, a couple years out of, you know, about maybe one or two years into my time at FSB, so maybe like two or three years into being a professional. I was like, Well, I want to know more. And there's only so many resources that a company can give you while they need to maintain production of what product they are selling. And so as somebody who is somebody who wants to learn and somebody who wants to keep a competitive edge, I just thought, how do I connect with people? How do I, you know, make connect these dots. And so, for me, I'm an avid podcast listener. And so I took what I knew, which was fire protection, engineering, and podcasting, and in the confluence of that area, I thought, well, maybe I can leverage this to learn more, and provide a resource to people like me, you know, who want to know more about the industry, but maybe don't have the facilities to, you know, find this information out, you know, how many times as a two year or three year professional get to reach out to people on NFPA codes and standards and talk to them about the codes and standards process. And you know, how that works and technical related information to those codes and standards. I mean, it has given me a seat at the table in which I would have never had, if I would not have started the podcast and really, I think has accelerated my learning process. Like I'd say, at least two or three years for, you know, just my ability to find out information about topics. So I think that was a big reason why I started it. And, you know, the gap that it started to fill in the industry, I still think there's a huge gap to fill. I hope that more people get into it. I hope that we can continue to foster this network of professionals who are looking to put out a variety of content around fire and life safety. I'm not somebody who thinks that there is a finite amount of, you know, content or consumption for good, good fire and life safety information. I think the more the merrier. And I hope more people get into it. But yeah, as far as steps to get there. And, you know, I would tell people that if you have interest in doing something, a blog, or a podcast or YouTube videos, I'd say just figure it out. Just go do it because there is no huge there is no huge financial or technical barrier to go do these things. Really. The only barrier to entry is your own volition and time to go do these things. You know if you have those two things, I think you could get by with a really cheap mic and a cheap computer. And you could probably put something out there that somebody would find interesting and reach out and tell you, Hey, man, I think this is awesome. And if you did it for a couple years, you probably find out that you're starting to get good at it. So that's my, that's my piece of advice on that.   Aaron Johnson  10:20 Thanks for sharing. I like that, you know, talk about that gave you a seat at the table. And I kind of had the same experience when I started blogging, about I guess it's been about 17 years ago now or 15 years ago, started doing just, you know, regular blogs, blogs are kind of new back then. And so, but I found the same thing, right, again, got your seat at the table, when you share those articles and and comment I got to interact with people from all over the world, instead of just my little community. So awesome.   Gus Gagliardi  10:46 Yeah, it did. Why didn't your your scope of influence or your, you know, ability to network and, you know, like we talked about before connections and, and ability to problem solve? And you know, you talk to me about reaching out to people and get an information for articles. That's so powerful. I mean, like, to give you that avenue to do that.   Aaron Johnson  11:07 Yep, absolutely. Absolutely. So, thank you. So how does the how does this kind of decide project this kind of hobby project? How does it impact your day job? And what practical or personal professional benefits? Have you realized from it?   Gus Gagliardi  11:23 You know, I would say that on a day to day basis, it's pretty minimal on how it impacts my day job. I mean, I send out I'll send out a couple emails a week to invite guests, I spend the time on the weekends, editing podcasts, maybe like, anywhere from two to four hours producing social media copy, you know, show notes, and mixing and editing podcasts. So functionally, that's what it looks like, as far as time impact. Of course, there were startup energy involved, that we're not talking about. This is me in steady state after I've been doing it for coming up on two years in April. But, you know, what is it given me in my career, it's given me so much, I don't think that I would have this job opportunity that I do now, without the knowledge base, and like the competitive edge that I've gained from, you know, Fostering Connections and becoming a professional who has just leaned into networking and tried to be more competitive, I don't think that I would have the same opportunities, I don't think that I would have, you know, I don't think I would be the professional that I am today without the podcast. So that's kind of a broad statement. But I truly believe that and because, you know, you get to a point in your career, where you're at a company, you may be in a set track of what this experience can bring you. And so how do you differentiate? Do you get certifications? Do you, you know, take on a new, important valuable skill set, you know, how do you make yourself a more competitive professional. So for me, it's, you know, along with my technical expertise, and willing to learn about things in the industry that are difficult and valuable, I think that it is given me a huge advantage over my peers. But you know, that's just my two cents. I'm sure I'm inflated about that idea.   Aaron Johnson  13:26 No, it's true. Awesome. Well, thanks. Thank you for sharing. So you do have a lot of great guests on the podcast. I know, we've kind of talked in the past on, you know, how do you get these great guests that come onto your podcast? I'm sure you get, you probably get more nose than yeses, or get just ignored emails. But how do you get the guests that you do have? How do you get them to come onto your podcast? And how do you find these two or three people that you email every week?   Gus Gagliardi  13:47 You know, I think that it's easier than you think it's, it's easier than you think. And I'd say my hit ratio is probably closer to like, like 50 or 60%. Then, like, like 40 or 30%. And you'd be surprised. I mean, so people are professionals, and they they are in fire in my safety, their whole lives. They have fascinating jobs. I, I've traveled all across the country. I've been in aircraft hangars that were built in World War Two, you know, I have, you know, worked in probably more than a dozen states, probably closer to 20 states across the US you think I don't want to talk about that. You think that I don't love what I do. And I'm not passionate about that. You think other people in the industry, who have these great careers and experiences don't want to tell people and give people a leg up for their professional careers? No, you look for the passion, I would say and find a guests, people who people who are passionate about they what they do and their involvement in professional societies. Those are the people who are interested after a while you kind of get a sense for who would be interested in this sort of thing. And once you can sniff that out, it's a lot easier to find guests. So, um, I think that there's so many incredible stories in probably a lot of industries, but especially in fire and life safety. And so that process really just looks like a lot of LinkedIn searches or being knowledgeable about industry related topics or fields and searching through, you know, oh, I read a good magazine article. Oh, who's the author on this magazine article? Oh, this guy says, did he, you know, works at the Smithsonian? Oh, that sounds like a good episode. And so, you know, I reached out to Michael Kilby. And he's gracious enough to come on the podcast. And he sits on two NSPA boards or, you know, committees, and for one for historical and cultural museums and another one that I've never heard of, and he's willing to come talk to me about how to protect extremely valuable assets. And so I think it's easier, it's easier than it sounds. And that's some of that barrier to entry is like, how difficult you think it's going to be?   Aaron Johnson  16:07 Good. Yeah, that would be the the fear that people have in getting started. So thanks for kind of alleviating that for some of us. So yeah, I've been on your show a few times. And some other people have been and so the, the thing that we all have in common, we talk about gustas podcast is that Gus is the easiest guy to talk to, when we do these shows. So what do you think it is about you or your style that makes you so easy to talk to?   Gus Gagliardi  16:31 Man, I just I love people. And I've always been interested in personal stories. If you don't like people, and you don't like talking to people, then podcasting is probably not for you. But for me, I have no trouble talking. And I have no trouble being interested in people and really caring about what's going on in their life. And personally, what moves them. I'd listened to I'd listened, I've listened to all kinds of podcasts. And I used to I was learning how to code. So I would listen to this podcast called, I think it was learned to code with me or something. And basically, it was all framed around personal life stories and how people have overcome adversity and not always found that so compelling. So I've taken little bits and pieces of podcasting style and personal interaction that I've found really touching and compelling. And I try to embody those in the podcast that I have. So I think part of it is genuinely interested in this stuff, you know, it really, if you're not interested, it comes across in the podcast, it's gonna come off flat, you're gonna, it's got to be weak, you know, it's, and people can sense that. And it takes about three seconds for people to sniff people being not genuine and tune out and log off. And so, you know, because there's a billion different things for content you can get these days. So you have to be invested in what you're doing. You have to care, you have to want to talk or else. It's not gonna work.   Aaron Johnson  18:02 Right, good. Good. So you mentioned some pot, you're, you're an avid podcast listener listener. So what are some podcasts that you listen to?   Gus Gagliardi  18:10 So I guess I could break it down into like, a number of categories? Because, you know, I vacillate between, you know, do I want something interesting? You know, you want to do something like Stuff You Should Know. You want to laugh? Do you want something like two bears? When cave? It's just you know, irreverent comedy and kind of ridiculousness? Are you do you have a personal hobby or project you want to get into? You know, is there something about cooking you want to know about? You know, I used to listen to used to be a great podcast. It's changed host now, but it was like about people for who worked for like getting Bon appetit. Now, not Bon appetit. But some other food magazine in New York, I can't remember. But they would just go over like people's cookbooks and things. So, I mean, I listened to everything you could think of. And, you know, I'll go through periods where I'm listening to only podcasts. And like, you know, I'll burn through like, six to 10 of these a week. Easy. And then I'll switch to something like audio books, or I'll switch to something like all music or so. I think that's why I knew that it was going to work fire Kotek was going to work is because I know how I consume podcasts. And I was like, I don't just like one podcast. I like 20 podcasts. And if it's good, I don't care how many podcasts there are, I'm going to find time to lean into that content. So yeah, that's a little bit of my background on podcasts. It's always hard to answer that because I'm always vacillating between. I like the new stuff as much as I like the well established. There's something fun about being involved when a podcast just starts and you feel like you're a part of something a little bit. It's fun to have that like sense of community that people have, even though you really don't know the person at all.   Aaron Johnson  19:59 Yeah, Awesome. Yeah. My thing with the new startups is you get really attached to the show, then they stop after like five episodes disappear. You know? Yeah,   Gus Gagliardi  20:08 one thing, the number one thing with any content is be consistent. If people, that's one of the hugest benefits that people get out of podcasts. I know, every Monday, that x podcast comes out, and that gives me comfort. And that gives me enjoyment. And I get a sense of relief as I drive to work on Monday because I get to listen to x podcast. If you can't provide that, then nobody's gonna stick around to hear what you got to say. So first and foremost, be consistent. Otherwise, you can just forget about it. You know, don't even start. Don't even start if you don't want to be consistent because I've seen most podcasts burnout, and it makes me sad, honestly, because some people have great potential.   Aaron Johnson  20:57 Yeah, absolutely. Absolutely. Your your podcast listening can be cut down, though, with your new job, your commute, your short commute time. Now,   Gus Gagliardi  21:06 I thought about that you can't really get into a podcast in 10 minutes. I was thinking I gotta switch to music now. Because you got to get like some sort of pump up. But you can't like really settle into an hour long podcast. minutes. That's right. That's I had that thought for sure. This week I was just cuts into like me, like really getting into a state of mind going to work.   Aaron Johnson  21:29 Get up early, you have to get up the same time. Just get your podcast listening. I know. So tell us a little bit about the practical steps you actually take like, what's the whole process from inviting the guests to preparing to actually posting the podcast? And then you do everything? Or do you outsource some of it to other companies or people?   Gus Gagliardi  21:46 No I to everything, I think eventually I will look at kicking some of the podcast editing out. But honestly, like, for the price of what you get for editing, like it can be anywhere from low cost would be for audio only video is a lot more expensive. But the price points for per episode. Like I think I calculated, I forget what the number was I calculated how much money on average I spend. It's like a couple of dollars per podcast episode if you like, if you cut it down to all of the hosting fees, and like everything that I've signed up for whatever email account, and like if you roll all that into one number and divided by 365, it's like a couple of dollars. But that's because I do all of the editing, and all of the media stuff, and all of the shownotes and everything. So functionally, what that looks like, I'll send an email out and ask them to gauge their interests, then I will try to establish the date and or schedule time. After there's a scheduled time I will develop a set of questions. And usually it's easiest for me to think about this questions and categories. So I'll kind of broadly think of some categories for fire code tech, generally, it's people story, like a technical competency issue or topic. And then professional development. So if you think about it in those categories, I generally know that it only takes about depending on the person anywhere from 10 to 15 questions to fill an hour. But that's highly dependent on the person's level of skill and level of passion and level of ease in speaking to fill that to fill that hour. So I've had people where I've gotten through maybe like less than four questions. And then I've had people where I've just like it's pulling teeth, and I got to have like 17 questions to get through an hour. So okay, tighly variable on the person. And so I will record the episode. And then I will mix and master the audio, and compile that and upload it to a hosting website, which distributes it to spark Spotify, Apple, Google Play, like eight different places and distributes it all in one place. So yeah, that's a little bit about the workflow and then it releases every Monday it releases really early in the morning. I don't know why I started that. But it releases like 2am on Mondays, but I figured people could have it whenever they start their commute. So I'm consistent and I think that's important, but that's a bit about the process.   Aaron Johnson  24:36 Awesome. So it also looks like since we're on video, it looks like you're in like your own sound booth. So tell me a little bit about like what what you got going on there they   Gus Gagliardi  24:44 Yeah, I just rigged this up. I just picked this up by I'm in the process of like, getting everything incorporated for video. My brother has a video podcast, so he kind of like charged the path on letting me know like everything thing you need for video. And like, really, if you have a nice camera, which I don't, I'm just using a computer camera, but like, you can set up a certain focus and depth of field. But I'd say the elements are lighting, sound quality. So you set up sound blankets around the room to really dampen the noise and give it that studio s sound. And then, you know, you have lighting. And there's great posts online about how to set up the three different components of lighting or like the, like three point lighting, it's called. So there's like, basically, yeah, just like a backlight, a key light, and like a foot. I don't know the terminology. But so I've tried to incorporate that a little bit for this. But honestly, I just threw up all this stuff this morning. But yeah, I'd say focus on the sound quality, the lighting, and the aesthetic. Like, if I had some knickknacks or something in the background, I think that'd be a lot better. I don't I just threw up a sound blanket to give a nice backdrop and have some fighting. So face isn't washed out.   Aaron Johnson  26:06 That's right. Awesome, man. So what is and you've given a lot of tools. And I really appreciate that. Yeah. To the audience today, what's one actionable step that they can go to do today and they say, I want to start a podcast, what's the one thing they can go and do right now. And to get started in that direction?   Gus Gagliardi  26:22 Do you need to go record a podcast today, if you want to do a podcast, don't wait until you're ready. Don't wait until you get to sign from wherever you want to get the sign. If you want to do a podcast scheduled podcast today, get your buddy, whoever it is Tell him we're doing a podcast, we don't have to release it. But we're going to do it and I'm going to practice my my skills interview in or having a conversation or whatever scheme you want for your podcasts, go do it today. Because if you can find a reason not to do it, you're going to keep finding a reason not to do it. And that is like the other huge hurdle after you've convinced yourself to do one is to convince yourself to post one. And then after you've posted one, make sure you put yourself in a position to post at the same frequency you've set out. So I recorded like four or six podcasts before I released any because I had no clue how hard it was going to be to keep a churning backlog of professionals and videos recorded. I don't know if that was necessary. It would. It's what made me feel comfortable with the time. But yeah, I'd say if you are interested in doing a podcast, grab whatever microphone and or camera you have today and go record one because the first one you're going to do is going to be hard, and then they'll get easier after that. But if you don't, if you don't actually start recording podcasts, you're not a podcast. So just go do it, go do it. Because I guarantee you, it's easier than what you think it's gonna be. And there's a billion articles online, on how to figure it out. So if you really want it, you can do it.   Aaron Johnson  28:11 Awesome. So I know you're in the, we're gonna change gears a little bit and start to kind of wrap things up. You're the you're a fire protection engineer, you're in that field. So what would you say is the current state of the industry for the fire protection engineering field or the aspiring fire protection engineer,   Gus Gagliardi  28:28 I'd say I have not in my career experienced a better time become a fire protection engineer, the industry is absolutely white hot for career opportunity, and a chance to professionally develop and get a good job and to have a competitive salary for a good job. So I think that if you have any interest in fire and life safety, and you want to make your foray into the field, say do it now because the industry is on a bull run the market wide hot with opportunity. And I've never seen it be this good in the last six, six years of being in business. So the industry that even despite the all of the supply chain disruptions and all of these inherent difficulties with COVID. The industry is just chugging away for speeding. I don't know how long that's gonna last. But right now it's incredible to see the amount of construction that's going on right now in the construction that I've seen that's been scheduled for the next couple of years. So that is what I see happening right now. The big topics I see in the industry are batteries, lithium ion batteries being a big one. You know, what else heavy timber construction for, like sustainability and kind of environmental impact. That's a huge thing. I see Right now in the industry a push on the national scale. Yeah, I think a big part of thing that I want to be an advocate for is bringing people into the industry. Because another trend that I see on the macro level is a lack in people coming into the field, I see that, you know, the program that I came from Oklahoma State produces about anywhere from 40 to 50 candidates a year, and that doesn't even scratch the surface of what the industry needs for just FPS like, that doesn't even start to, to really move the needle for what we're going to need for people getting into fire alarm, fire, sprinkler, fire protection, engineering, I mean, there's so many jobs, and people from my program go into, you know, safety, and a lot of other different avenues. So they might go work for a petroleum company, or they might go, you know, work for work safety for industry, you know, some accompany like International Paper or something like that. So, so maybe only quarter to a third of those kids are becoming, you know, in the system side of fire and life safety. So, it's a huge boom time. And it's a super consistent job market. So, you know, I would say, Please, please, please get involved. There's so much promise and opportunity right now, for anybody with competency, and it's not too hard to be competent.   Aaron Johnson  31:36 Awesome. Thank you. So we're wrapping up here. Before we do, is there anything else that you'd like to share something that you'd like to discuss that we haven't mentioned yet? Feel free to do that now? And then just kind of tell us where where can people find you?   Gus Gagliardi  31:48 Yeah, I think that now, as far as topics left, I think we've covered a lot of good stuff. Yeah, just to put a put a big plug in for the podcast here. Fire co tech. You can find it wherever you find podcasts, like we said before, Spotify, YouTube, Apple, Google, play all the above, go find it. There's great topics about whether you like aircraft hangars or fire alarm or fire suppression or you want some tips and tricks on how to pass your Fe or PE. There's great information on these podcasts where I get to view interview professionals like Aaron and people who are absolute leaders in the industry with 30 and 40 years of experience just given out great secrets and not secrets, but just tips and tricks for people to be competitive in the industry. Also, you can find me on LinkedIn am Gus Gagliardi and on Twitter at gags guess what's jiejie ZG us? So? Yeah, I think that I've enjoyed the podcast. Aaron, thank you so much for having me. And yeah, we'd love to do it again. I hope there's another one of these I hope this becomes an annual gig.   Aaron Johnson  33:01 Awesome, man. No thank you for your words. And thank you for sharing and taking your time so we appreciate it. Thanks a lot, man.

Jessica Ritter is the Texas Ambassador for Born Perfect and a Conversion Therapy survivor.  After three years of Conversion Therapy Jessica came out to her friends and family for a second time.  Since coming out, Jessica has been forced to sever her relationship with her immediate family. However, with the help of a real therapist, she has been able to create a strongly knit chosen family made up of extended family, her girlfriend, and friends.  Today, Jessica is a successful professional and surrounded by more love and acceptance than she ever thought possible.  

Madeline Teig is a Dallas area native. You can usually find Madeline working in the lab by day, testing various bodily fluids, and cracking jokes in the comedy clubs by night. 

Monica Rodriguez – known to her students as M-rod – is the yearbook adviser at Gulliver Preparatory Upper School in Pinecrest, Florida. All of Monica's three staffs – the Reflections literary magazine, the Raider Voice news and and print magazine, and the Raider yearbook – received Crown and Pacemaker Finalist recognition in 2021. It's particularly exciting as this is the first time the Raider yearbook has earned Pacemaker recognition from NSPA. She took time to chat with Jim about her career as both a teacher and a yearbook sales rep, and what it means to see her students receive the recognition they worked so hard for. 

Featured in Dallas' Regional Chamber Magazine, D Magazine and Passport Magazine as THE Dallas arts and non-profit Enthusiast and LGBTQ Advocate, Brad Pritchett is a Tony Award-wining marketing and communications executive and community activist. Brad is the Chief Marketing & Communications Officer in the Dallas Art District, where he oversees all marketing, PR, advertising and earned revenue strategies for the Museum. With 20 years of marketing, communications and brand equity experience, he is a hands-on strategist with a proven ability to streamline business operations and increase efficiencies to enhance internal/external communications, brand relevance and increased revenue. Brad has an award-winning track record of defining and directing integrated and multifaceted marketing and public relations campaigns with a focus on advertising, public relations, digital and traditional marketing, event execution and strategic leadership. Brad led the marcom efforts for Dallas Theater Center and the American Heart Association prior to his current role. He has professionally entertained audiences all over the world singing, acting and dancing for Disney, Six Flags, Radisson Cruise Lines, The Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas and theaters throughout Branson, Missouri. Brad has also hosted and emceed countless high-profile charity events all over the country and was the face of Dallas Voice Television – DVTV. He has also worked as an Arts Host and Contributor for WFAA Channel 8, On-Air Media and hosted his own LGBTQ podcast, the good, the Brad & the ugly, on Yea Network. He was recently featured in Culture Map as one of their top 5 fashion influencers for the Style Maker Awards and is one of the faces of Express for Men and the Dallas Mavericks. In his spare time, Brad is actively involved in the community serving on the Advisory Board and former chairman of Black Tie Dinner Board of Directors, the nation's largest LGBTQ charity event of its kind and sits on several Steering and Host Committees for the North Texas LGBTQ community. Brad's journey is copiloted by his husband, David Chadd, and their three rescue fur babies: Charlie, Chester and Chase. 

When NSPA announced the three 2021 recipients of their prestigious Pioneer Award and Jim saw long-time friend Leland Mallett on the list, he knew he wanted Leland to come on the podcast again. In this episode, Jim and Leland chat about what this award means to Leland, how the yearbook world has changed over his 22-year career, and what the last two years have been like while they produced a yearbook during COVID. If you'd like to see some of the covers and spreads discussed in the episode, this year's cover, last year's cover, the shoe spread, and the giant type spread can be viewed on our website. 

Mike: I assure you there are fascists in the US. [Theme song] Nazi SS UFOs Lizards wearing human clothes Hinduism's secret codes These are nazi lies Race and IQ are in genes Warfare keeps the nation clean Whiteness is an AIDS vaccine These are nazi lies Hollow earth, white genocide Muslim's rampant femicide Shooting suspects named Sam Hyde Hiter lived and no Jews died Army, navy, and the cops Secret service, special ops They protect us, not sweatshops These are nazi lies Mike: One of the more pernicious lies I hear about US fascism is that it doesn't exist, particularly in the present day. So I'm here today with journalist and sociologist Dr. Spencer Sunshine, PhD from CUNY's Grad School. Spencer has written for Colorlines, Truthout, and The Daily Beast and has an organizing guide out through PopMob called 40 Ways to Fight Fascists: Street-Legal Tactics for Community Activists. Thanks for coming on the pod. Spencer Sunshine: Thanks for having me on the show, Mike. Mike: Of course! So Spencer's here to talk about the American Nazi Party; its successor, the National Socialist White People's Party; and its remnants today. So let's start with a brief history of US fascism before the American Nazi Party. Spencer: Sure, so fascism as an actual political current is about 100 years old in the United States. The first Nazi group, or Nazi cell, in the United States formed in 1922 by German expats in the Bronx. And there were probably earlier groups that were Italian Fascist groups. Like many radical political traditions that started in Europe, in the United States these were first brought to the country by immigrants from Europe. If we look further than that, if we use fascism as a broader term involving any organized white supremacist groups, of course we'd easily go back to the 1860s and the Ku Klux Klan and similarly styled far right groups go back in the United States well before that. So fascism is a longstanding political tradition in our country. It's a century old. The fact that people can't acknowledge this shows something interesting about the psyche of the United States where people just can't admit that there are radical political movements here, or that such a noxious political movement such as fascism could take fairly, what looks like permanent roots in our country. Mike: Okay, so let's talk about the American Nazi Party itself. How was it founded? What did it do? Spencer: So before the war there were two groups that were pro-Nazi. There was the German American Bund, who were tied to the Nazi Party in various ways; and an American group called the Silver Shirts. As you may imagine, during the war, nazism became taboo in the country. A lot of the leaders were arrested. After the war it took quite a while for, what then became neo-nazism, neo-nazi groups to establish themselves. There was a group called the National States Rights Party who mostly recruited from Klan members and were the core organizers for nazis, but they did not say on the– On the outside of the package it did not say that; although on the inside it was. So the American Nazi Party was sort of special because it was the first group to openly declare itself a nazi group and to, the phrase they used was, “raise the swastika,” to actually appear in public. You know, at the time they used the old stormtrooper uniforms, these brown uniforms with a swastika armband. You rarely see it these days, but this was pretty common through the early 90s for nazi groups to do this. So the American Nazi Party was founded in 1959. There was a precursor group in 1958 by George Lincoln Rockwell. He had done advertising; was very good. And came from a vaudeville family. This is a really crazy story, but Bob Hope was actually at his christening. He used these advertising techniques to form this group. It was designed to get media attention, and the idea was for him that conservatives could never become radical enough and could never really attract the people they needed. So by using this imagery, he could attract the kinds of people that he wanted, and he could use the presence of nazis– He used to say, “No one can ignore nazis marching in the streets.” –use this public image to gain media attention which he could then use as a recruiting tool. The party was never very big. It continued through the 60s. They did a lot of– It was almost an agitprop kind of project. The kind of murders that we associate with the nazi movement these days– They had punch ups at rallies and stuff. But the kind of violence and murders that we associate with neo-nazism these days did not come until later, which is an interesting thing. He was assassinated by a fellow party member in 1967. Right before then he had changed his organizing strategy. He had a very successful rally in Marquette Park, Chicago, which was actually against Martin Luther King's plan to desegregate. It was some of his late marches doing housing desegregation in Chicago. It was in an Eastern European neighborhood, a lot of Eastern European immigrants who were resisting Black Chicagoans from moving into their neighborhood. Thousands of people came to this rally. He then changed his tack a bit. He renamed the party the National Socialist White People's Party which is a mouthful, and we'll call it the NSWPP from now on. And he renamed the party newspaper to White Power which is the slogan we know today that he coined. So it was a move from being an antisemitic nazi party to kind of being an aggressive white nationalist party because it was the first time that he had drawn a lot of grassroots support. He was assassinated. He was replaced by his subordinate Matt Koehl. At first it was three people. It was Robert Lloyd, Koehl, and William Pierce (Who's important. He later formed his own party called the National Alliance. Mike: We'll talk about them in a bit. Spencer: And he wrote a very influential book called The Turner Diaries. These three that ran the party for a while, and then, what's a nazi party without a führer? Or tin pot führer at least? Kicks the other two out. And runs the party until his death a few years ago. In 1983 the party became called New Order and actually degenerated into a Hitler-worshipping, almost private Hitler-worshipping cult. It still exists. Koehl died a few years ago and was replaced by his subordinate Martin Kerr. Mike: So before we talk about the remnants today, I want to talk about some of the splinter groups that formed in the 70s. I'm thinking the second NSLF, the National Alliance that you mentioned, the NSPA, the NSWWP. Spencer: A mouthful of alphabet soup. Mike: Yes. Spencer: So the importance of Koehl taking control is that Rockwell was a very charismatic guy. A lot of his followers really adored him. They ended up fetishizing him almost as a god-like figure. The way they had– Some of them, you know, praised him the way they had Adolf Hitler before him. In the post-war period, people had started almost worshipping and sometimes literally worshipping Hitler and made altars to him and treated him as a kind of demigod. So Koehl did not have charisma and acted in ways that alienated most of his party membership. Over the years, especially between 1973 and 1974, a lot of the party members left; the active units, they called them units the chapters, left and formed their own groups. And this became very important because this is what laid the groundwork for there to be a decentralized neo-nazi movement in the United States, the kind of which we see today. So it laid the epistemological foundation for it because before there had been a single party, a single organization with chapters. Now there were all these separate groups that had different relationships with them and that could pursue different strategies. And they did pursue different strategies. So the first big split was in 1970 when William Pierce is kicked out. This takes a little while for the real splintering to happen. So the first group I'll talk about is the National Socialist Liberation Front because their influence can be felt today on the alt-right, on the terrorist wing of the neo-nazis today. It was originally the name was used in the late 60s as a college student group that William Pierce actually ran that was associated with the party. They were trying to take off the energy of the New Left. You know, there were a lot of liberation fronts was a popular name for armed new left groups. This was an attempt to recruit college students. It only got one good organizer which we can talk about later which was David Duke. It was never an independent entity. The name was revived in 1974 when, probably the best organizer in the United States, Joseph Tommasi, who was based in Los Angeles, was suspended by the party, and he founded his own group. They used the NSLF name. Mike: Can you talk about why he was suspended? Spencer: He was– There's a lot of discussion about this. Accusations that he was– Some of it was cultural clashes within the nazis. He was pulling off the counterculture. He had long hair. They didn't like to dress in uniform. They wore like fatigues and stuff. He was accused of bringing his girlfriends over to the party headquarters. Koehl was making all of the party members (They had bought their own headquarters. This was a time they still had physical headquarters was an emphasis.) sell their headquarters. They made all the chapters sell their headquarters buildings and give the proceeds to Koehl which angered a lot of people and caused a lot of these splits because the people themselves had bought them, and they just thought he was trying to enrich himself which he probably was. He was basically shutting the party down and making a cult around himself and taking all the money. But there was a very interesting– What probably really prompted it is– It's attached to the Watergate scandal. Someone in the C.R.E.E.P. (The group, the Nixon support group that got involved in Watergate, it was an acronym for them.) hired Tommasi's nazis to help get another far right, a little more moderate, party on the ballot in California to pull votes away from Republicans. This was the American Independent Party. It has a funny history. It comes out of the George Wallace campaigns earlier. Then later, I think Cliven Bundy from the Bundy ranch actually joined. Remnants of the party exist today and have attracted people from the militia movement. [Spencer's correction to this story: https://twitter.com/transform6789/status/1388206831630180362?s=19] Anyway, these nazis were hired by Republicans to get another far right party on the ballot to pull votes away in a certain election. I forget the details now. I'm sorry. The party– Koehl was angry that he had made this deal. This made the newspapers. It made the New York Times and stuff. This angered the party that he had done this without their permission. And they took money from it. So that may have been– A lot of more serious people think that was the actual reason for the initial suspension. And then there was a break when Tommasi formed his own group. The NSLF was important because they openly advocated armed resistance and bombings and such and did do a few of these, although rather moderate in Los Angeles. This was a break from the parent party which always stressed legality. While there had been violent currents in it, they were really kept kind of under the rug, and it was just a sort of wing of the party of certain people including William Pierce. And then Tommasi didn't last long, though. He was killed in a scuffle with members of the former party at his former headquarters. He accosted one and the guy had this kid, an 18-year-old, and he shot him. Tommasi again, another charismatic organizer, founded this group, but didn't last long. That group however did continue it had four different leaders and continued until 1986. James Mason, who we'll talk about later, joined that group after Tommasi's passing. Mike: Okay so that's the NSLF. What about the National Alliance? Spencer: The National Alliance is a group founded by William Pierce after he got kicked out of the NSWPP. He was flirting with Willis Carto, another major nazi leader who became, amongst other things, the main popularizer of Holocaust denial in America. They had a falling out. Carto had a falling out with everyone. Pierce founded– The group was originally the National Youth Alliance, then became the National Alliance. It was a membership based group. They tried to recruit professionals. Pierce had been an engineering professor out in Oregon before he joined the party. He was very articulate. He did not have the sort of crass approach, you know. He produced more sophisticated propaganda as well as sort of more interesting theoretical documents. So they continued. The remnants of the group exists today. They had up to a thousand members. They ended up having a huge group property out in West Virginia. It was the headquarters building. He lived there. He wrote a book in the 70s called The Turner Diaries which is a really badly written book. It's a fantasy novel about how some white supremacists will form a terrorist movement, and they will help promote a race war, through terrorism will promote a race war in America. And you know this will end up in the Day of the Rope where the white supremacists kill people of color and Jews and create a white ethnostate. It's a tremendously popular book around the world. It's sold up to a half a million copies. You can still get it today. It still inspires people today. So Pierce's group, they didn't do a lot of public actions especially till later in life.  Although, their probably biggest rally was in 2002. It was a supposedly pro-Palestine rally in Washington, D.C., that blamed Israel for 9/11, and hundreds of people came to it. They tended to shy away from this stuff. But it was the biggest group, and the most serious group, in the United States for many years. After Pierce died, of course they tried to continue the group and everyone broke up into squabbling. One of the main organizers who's come out of it who's still active today is Billy Roper who's part of the Shield Wall project in Arkansas. I think there's one chapter left. The headquarters of the party still exists. There's been a bunch of legal fights with everyone engaged in lawsuits and various other physical conflicts with each other, and the group has sort of degenerated. So that's the second one, that's the National Alliance. Mike: Okay, so let's talk about–you actually mentioned this on Twitter kind of the other day–the NSPA. Spencer: The NSPA actually was another one of the early splinters that left in 1970. Led by a fellow named Michael Collin. [The name is actually Frank Collin -Mike] They were based in Chicago. They had seen or taken part in Rockwell's popular organizing in Marquette Park in the 60s, and they didn't understand why the party wouldn't follow up with that. And that's what they wanted to do. Again, there was a fighting over the headquarters building. They split off formed their own group. A very small group until they started having rallies in Marquette Park that were still resisting desegregation and attracted community support. Basically, no one wanted to side with this white community that did not want Black people to move in, and they became their champions. And part of the– The thing here is that people in the neighborhood, there were a lot of like Ukrainian immigrants, people who had been from countries that were occupied by the Nazis, who were pro-Nazi. A lot of the areas the Nazis occupied people, you know what I mean, supported them. There were a lot of people, basically, with collaborationist backgrounds, and they didn't have a problem with this. And the nazis championed their cause. And they would hold large rallies in Marquette Park. Some of them attracted thousands of people. They became most famous for the Skokie incident which apparently is being forgotten today by younger people. but was known to everybody in the United States of a certain age. The Chicago city tried to stop them from having their Marquette rallies by putting a bunch of legal barriers. They had to have a huge insurance– Had to take insurance out to do it that was unaffordable. So to get around this they threatened a march in Skokie, Illinois, which was a largely Jewish suburb, wealthy suburb. A lot of Holocaust survivors lived there. Skokie resisted them through legal means. Eventually the case went to the Supreme Court. It was in the national news for like a year or so. It started in 1977. Went to the Supreme Court. The ACLU championed it. The ACLU had been defending nazis before this but this became what they're famous for. Their most famous case. The Supreme Court upheld that local cities could not put unreasonable blocks such as insurance requirements on political groups from marching including nazis. They couldn't stop them from using particular symbols or something. They attempted to ban that. So everyone knew there were neo-nazis in America. It also made the NSPA briefly the most important nazi group, neo-nazi group in America, because at this point there was all these splinter factions from the NSWPP and were all vying to be the most important group or to set up, or attract other groups to them, or to lead coalitions of them. There were different formulations of this. They all had, you know, weird relationships with each other as they were doing this. So the NSPA, because of this lawsuit and the attention it got, became the most popular of these groups, and certainly the most well known of these groups briefly. It eclipsed even the parent party for a while. So that was probably the high point of attention of neo-nazism in America in the 70s. Although, throughout the decade, nazis would consistently make the newspapers. They were a very small movement; had maybe a thousand people in the movement in the US. It became, unlike in the 60s, newspapers, the media started to really love them. So there's tons of coverage of various nazi splinter groups in the various cities for all of their actions. There's a documentary film called California Reich. You can watch it on YouTube. We'll talk about it in a minute. It's about a group in California and such. There was lots of stuff like that. These two things weren't outliers. Mike: Okay, so– Spencer: So Collin– Oh there's a funny ending to it. Collin and his people, they started running for alderman and like city council in Chicago. Some of them did quite well, got like 16% of the vote. But quickly the party started to wane in popularity. Collin's subordinates wanted to get rid of him, so they rifled through his desk and found child porn of him with young teenage boys. They turn him in to the police. He was arrested for child molestation. It also came out his father was a Jewish man who had been in a concentration camp. So there was some real deep stuff going on here. Even though he was a successful organizer, right, against the odds. He went to jail. He was replaced by Harold Covington. We can talk about Covington if we want. He's important in the Greensboro Massacre and then died only a few years ago. Remained an organizer. And then Covington was replaced by someone else and the party frittered away. But yeah, there was a real plot twist in that one after Skokie. Mike: Okay, do you want to talk about the NSWWP? Spencer: Sure, so this was a group– This was the California leader Allen Vincent. He, like everyone else, broke off of the parent party. Founded– He was important cause he was– He wasn't a charismatic organizer, but he could attract followers, and he really liked to get in street fights just as a person. He was a good, stable organizer unlike a lot of these people. Did a lot of crazy rallies in San Francisco. So of course there were fights at his events. At one point he opened a bookstore I believe in the Sunset neighborhood of San Francisco on the same block as a synagogue that a bunch of survivors went to. His bookstore was quickly burned down. He worked with James Mason. Worked with him for a while between 1978 and 1980. Was the editor of his paper The Stormer. Briefly, after the NSPA star faded, his group became a national group. This lasted a few years and it faded away like many of these other groups. So he was well known for the documentary California Reich was filmed about his group while it was still a chapter of the NSWPP before he broke away and became the NSWWP, just to totally confuse anybody about these acronyms. Mike: The National Socialist White– Spencer: White Workers Party. The original group is the National Socialist White People's Party. His group is the National Socialist White Workers Party. Although you might think they're more of an anticapitalist group from the parent party that wasn't true. He lived quite a while through the late 90s. He popped back up in the late 90s, met Jeff Shoep who at the time was running the National Socialist Movement, and became his mentor for a brief period of time. Then he passed away. Mike: Now let's talk about the groups that exist today or the various remnants of it today. So I was going to start with Don Black and Stormfront. Spencer: So Don Black was originally in the National Socialist Youth Movement. It was sort of part of the parent party for people who were under eighteen. There were all these names of these other groups, so people didn't– Their membership card didn't say American Nazi Party or NSWPP. You know he left like many other people. Many neo-nazis, almost all neo-nazis from the 70s were in the party at least at first. That was everybody's entre into this world. So he had been involved in the Dominica debacle. This was in 1981. A group of white supremacists were hired to invade the Caribbean island of Dominica and overthrow the government. They'd made a deal with the– The leader had been deposed and they were going to allow the white supremacists to keep a base there. They were turned in, of course, by somebody, and they all went to jail including Don Black. Later however, he founded Stormfront. It was an early– It wasn't the first at all, but it became the first very popular neo-nazi website. The important thing, it had all these forums where people could have discussions. And it was publicly available, so it was easy for reporters, especially, to go look at the discussions and be able to quote from them which became very important for its visibility. And this was the biggest neo-nazi or white nationalist website really until The Daily Stormer I believe in 2016-2017. So now it's a bit– If you look at it, it's clearly a web 1.0 website and looks a little old school. But it's still the main popular site throughout the 90s and the 00s. And it's still I think for people who are probably gen X and older who are white supremacists, it's still the place that they hang out at. So it had a very important place in the– You know, nazis and other white nationalists have always had a hard time because they were locked out–especially before social media in the last few years even–they were locked out of mainstream platforms. And they need to have alternative platforms. Nazis are actually early adopters to the bbs. The first Nazi or white supremacist bbs opened in 1983. It was actually founded by a former member of Hitler Youth that moved to the United States. And so they were very early adapters to this technology because it was a way for them to get around the media block out. I mean even if they printed newspapers, they couldn't sell them at newsstands. You know even these weird tankie communist sects could sell their newspapers at least some newsstands. Mike: Right. Okay so next up, I guess his story intersects with Don Black's story. We'll talk about occasional political candidate, former Klan leader, former NSLF member David Duke. Spencer: So Duke was a member of the original college student NSLF. He essentially took it over. He was at a party conference in the early 70s, and at this conference, they said NSLF will be– The group itself is changing its name to the White Student Alliance and Duke will be the leader. And this is interesting because it shows Duke's evolution from an outright neo-nazi– He went to school in Louisiana and would go do these free speech– There was a free speech zone, and he would go sell the NSLF newspaper and give neo-nazi speeches. It was a big– You know, he was very well known on campus for this and attracted a lot of attention. There's pictures of him in a Nazi uniform demonstrating against one of the lefty Jewish lawyers Kunstler who had gone to speak at his school. He had a sign that said “Gas the Chicago Seven” who was this left leaning, it was this left leaning political trial in the late 60s. So he took over this new group, and the group kept evolving. So it's originally the National Socialist Liberation Front; then it's the White Student Alliance; then it's the White Youth Alliance; and then it's the Nationalist Party. And then he forms a Ku Klux Klan group or joins one, it's a little vague, the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan. And this is important because it shows his evolution from a nazi to a kind of white nationalist youth organizer– to a white nationalist student organizer to a white nationalist youth organizer to just a white nationalist organizer. So each time the pool is rippling out, and he's trying to find the right formula that attracts the most people, from very niche to much broader. He becomes– So he forms this newfangled Klan group that doesn't wear hoods, and he's very good with media. This was sort of a new thing to have somebody appear in media who was dressed nice and could talk well, wasn't trying to– You know, Rockwell had waved swastikas in people's faces and was trying to infuriate them, and Duke was doing exactly the opposite. Became very successful. Was very young. He was still in his twenties. He was running one of the more successful Klan groups. One of the things he's remembered for today, he started a Klan Border Watch on the California border to attempt to patrol for illegal immigrants. There he was working with Tom Metzger who later became popular for other things as well as Louis Beam. These were two white supremacist leaders in the 80's who promoted armed struggle. Were the most militant leaders. Started out in Duke's Klan. And as well as Don Black. And I believe Duke married Black's ex-wife. They were all entangled in these ways. So after the Klan stuff he starts running for office in Louisiana and does quite well. And at one point is elected state representative in Louisiana in 1989. This is sort of the high point of the wave of conservatism that goes along with Reagan's reign of power from 1980 to 88, which continues with Bush I to 92. There becomes a revival of popular mainstream American racism. And sort of white flight that had started is very ensconced. There's all these racial conflicts in the late 80s and early 90s like Howard Beach and the Hasidic Jewish and Black riots in Crown Heights. So there's an incredible amount of violent racial tension in the country at the time, and so he's sort of taking advantage of this. He runs for other offices, does quite well, but can't get elected again. And then he's mostly well known for this, and it's the slow burn for the next few decades. He was at Charlottesville which was an interesting moment. To me, this was a sort of handing of the torch from from him to Richard Spencer as the mainstream white nationalist leader. That's how I saw what went on. Although, you know, they didn't actually rally at Charlottesville. The rally itself was dispersed by the police before it began. There was no speeches or ceremony which he could do this, although there was some speeches in a park later. Mike: Let's talk about the National Socialist Movement. Spencer: Yes. The NSM was yet another splinter party. It was formed in 1975 by people who again had come out of the NSWPP. Robert Brannan was its leader. They were sort of going in different directions at the same time. Some of the elements, which included James Mason as well as a guy named Greg Hurls, wanted a more pro-armed struggle line. They were very close to the NSLF. Brannan wanted a more sort of traditional thing, what was called the “uniform and demonstrate” which meant that they would get people in nazi uniforms and hold a rally in public and attract a lot of media attention. People would come and protest and that would just spur that. One of the things they did–they were based in Ohio, southern Ohio–they used to hold a “Free Rudolph Hess” rally I think for over a dozen years in Cincinnati. He was a Nazi leader. He had parachuted to Britain with the intent of creating a peace deal with the British in the early 40s I believe, and then remained imprisoned until his death. I think he committed suicide in the– I think he died in the late 80s early 90s. He lived a long time in Spandau Prison. So this group had some popularity in the early-mid 70s. There was of course splintering of this as Mason left it and went to work with Allen Vincent's group.  And it remained a tiny group with one or two units until the 90s when the then-leader, second leader Clifford Harrington, recruited a teenager named Jeff Shoep. Harrington wasn't a great organizer, but he did, unlike some people, understood there was a revival in neo-nazism in the 80s and 90s through the skinhead thing and wanted to recruit nazi skinheads. Got Shoep to take the party over for him, and then Shoep grew it into the leading neo-nazi party in the United States. It had dozens of chapters in the 00s in particular. I think around 2006 was its height which is a very unusual time for it to be successful. Partly they were pulling from the rest of the movement. The National Alliance collapsed, and other groups in the movement collapsed and they were able to sort of steal their local units and absorb them. But that group still exists today. They were at Charlottesville. They make the news. They just were in the news. There was a rally in Arizona. They're the main group, if you want a nazi group that's going to go and march in uniforms or use nazi symbols–instead of the old brownshirt uniforms, they use black uniforms–and put swastikas on a flag to get attention, that's the group that will do that. So they are on their fourth leader now, Burt Colucci I believe, who like many of them just got arrested. A number of the members have murdered people over the years. A lot of people who– They're sort of the least together group. Yeah they're the kind of group that if you have some sort of countercultural affiliation, if you're not interested in being a professional organizer that you might want to join, if you're a biker, if you're like a skinhead, and if its important for you to have a card saying you belong to a nazi party and you want to yell at people in public that you're a nazi and beat your chest about that and talk about how much you love Adolf Hitler, this is the group for you. It's not a sophisticated organizing project. Mike: Alright, so you have a book in the works about this next one. Let's talk about James Mason, Universal Order, and Siege. Spencer: So I've been working on this book for a while. One day it will be done. James Mason was a teenage member of the American Nazi Party in the 1960s although he never met Rockwell. His mentor in the party was William Pierce. So he met Pierce when he was I believe sixteen years old. Pierce let Mason, who was having a hard time at home, run away from home and stay with him at the party headquarters. Taught him how to– Or got him to learn how to use a printing press which was important before computers. A lot of groups would physically produce their own newspapers themselves with their own printing presses. This helped him out since it was very difficult for nazis to find a printer that would print their publications. So he was in the American Nazi Party. He was in it as it became the NSWPP. He hung around for a while and didn't leave until later. But then he ended up starting to join these other splinter groups while staying in the party. He left in 76. By that time he had already helped form the NSM, and he had also joined secretly the NSLF. This was after Tommasi died, so under the second leader. And he was a supporter of the National Alliance. So at one point, he's a super insider who's like a member of four different neo-nazi parties. And he's always wrangling in the mid 70s as the different groups try to create– try to become the lead group or create an alliance of different groups to overtake the NSWPP. What unites them is that they all hate Koehl who's that leader. They can't do it, as I said before. The NSPA become the leader for a moment because of the Skokie incident. Mason fought with everyone. He did this thing you see from some activists who are sort of sectarian, is they get more and more theoretically specific and crankier and crankier; they fall out with more and more people until they run a project that's really just them and whoever is helping them directly. So he has a falling out with the NSM, and he joins Allen Vincent's group. Runs his newspaper, but he doesn't really like Vincent because he's not radical enough. Mason is deciding more and more that it's hopeless to do public organizing. He comes up with some very strange ideas, not just that nazis should engage in guerilla warfare, but at the time there starts to be these nazi serial killers. Nazis start doing these multiple murders, like Joseph Paul Franklin are serial killers. He killed up to 22 people. He was another former NSWPP member. Roved around he country as a sniper killing mixed race and other couples– Mixed race couples and others, Black people, Jews. And other people just start butchering people, either just doing these random murders or doing workplace massacres. One of the first of them was in New Rochelle by Fred Cowan in New Rochelle, New York. It's just north of New York City in 1977. And there's a lot of serial killers at this time. It's the height for serial killers in America. And so Mason comes up with this theory that not just is guerilla warfare good but these racially based murders are good by nazis and by others. And that the nazis can use them as an attempt to destabilize the system–he starts calling it the system–because nazis can never work through legal means to build a party that will be able to take over the system. He's like every time we try to do this, we get shut down. We either get shut down in the streets, or the courts shut us down, or just shut out of the media. That had been Rockwell's strategy was to attract media attention and build an organization. He's like, “We can't do any of that. We really don't need organization. We need mass chaos to disrupt the system, and only after the system is disrupted will nazis have a chance to take power. He eventually later on starts to praise armed radical left and Black nationalist groups who are coming into conflict with the system, which he doesn't in the 70s but he starts doing it in the 80s. So he has a falling out with Vincent. The NSLF, this is revived under its third leader in 1980, becomes public again. It had actually been absorbed into Allen Vincent's group and then it comes back out as a separate group. He restarts Siege. It's originally the NSLF newspaper. It's sort of their theoretical paper. But it's just him running it, and he's developing these ideas about how murder can be used to forward the nazi cause. Then he comes into contact with Charles Manson. Starts to promote that Manson should be the new nazi guru, just like George Lincoln Rockwell had been, just like Adolf Hitler had been. Portrays him as this spiritual racist figure. Manson had carved a swastika in his head in prison and was sympathetic. He mentions– A lot of people don't know he was extremely racist and antisemitic. This creates yet another tiff between James Mason and the people he's working with. The leader of the party at that point, the fourth leader Karl Hand, who by the way is a big fan of yours. Can I tell a story on your podcast? Mike: Yeah. Spencer: So do you know about the interest of Karl Hand in you? Mike: No. Spencer: Oh you don't? So I actually wrote– As part of this book, I'm writing people who were involved in this movement. And Karl Hand lives upstate, runs a party called the Racial Nationalist Party of America, and he was based for a long time in upstate New York. He is obsessed with you, Mike. After your appearance on Tucker Carlson, he wanted to have a fight with you. Like some sort of, go into a boxing ring, and have a fight. He's an older man now, he's in his 70s. And so I wrote him, and he sent back a whole packet of literature and it included a flier about you with a description of his attempts to contact you and arrange a fist fight with you. Mike: Huh… Spencer:  So you have a fan. You have a fan. I think he said he wrote to the school you were teaching at. Anyways you have a fan in this generation of neo-nazis. And so, anyway, Hand and Mason had a falling out. In what must have been unique in the anals of– the annals? I don't know. You can see I read a lot and don't know how to say certain words. In the history of American neo-nazism, they had an amicable split. Hand actually gave Mason some money to continue Siege. So after 1982 until 1986 Siege is just run by James Mason. It's a very small. It's like a newsletter. He printed it himself. It was six pages long. There was almost no graphics in it. It had a sort of red– It doesn't– Although Mason was a talented graphic designer, I think, it was very plain. It was mostly text. It had a red banner that was it. He ran it off on his own mimeograph machine. Made like 75 copies of it. So this small newsletter that was running 75 copies will become quite influential in retrospect. He ran this till 1986. After the split with the NSLF in 1982, Mason started saying it was published by the Universal Order which directly said that Charles Manson was their spiritual leader. Although, he didn't talk about Manson that much. He never describes what Manson's supposed to do other than, they're not just a neo-nazi group. It's neo-nazism and more. It was a kind of really spiritual national socialism. Although, he's never specific about what that means. But he clearly has been enchanted by Charles Manson and essentially become a follower of him. So this sort of peters out. He becomes more and more cynical. He even gives up that these random murders are going to do anything. He doesn't think that the system will be able to be destabilized, but he does advocate–and this is what's influential today– He says, “Either you can drop out and wait through the apocalypse,” you know that's coming. He becomes convinced that the whole system is going to crumble. And this sort of pessimism is very popular in the 80s across the political spectrum. Partly driven by the Cold War and the survivalist movement. But he says, “You can hide out and wait for the end to come, and then live through it, and we'll have our chance. Or if you're going to go be a terrorist, do it with style. Do it in a way– Don't just kill somebody and be killed. Do it in a way that has panache, and that will inspire people, and that's done well. Plan it well. Don't just freak out and shoot somebody and be killed by the police.” And this philosophy is what becomes popular with Atomwaffen remnants and others today. Like these are your two options. I think it was called “Total attack or total drop out.” By 1986, he's pretty burned out, and that's the end of it. Basically in short order, his book becomes– His newsletters become found by people in the industrial music scene, by Boyd Rice, who's this industrial musician, who's still alive today, and that denies all of this stuff that happened. He recruits several other people. He's in contact with Adam Parfrey, who founded Feral House Press which is still around today; [Michael] Moynihan, who was an industrial and then neo-folk musician; and Nicholas Schreck, a Satanist who's married to Anton LaVey's daughter Zeena. They all work to promote James Mason. They start publishing him in various things. Moynihan takes the newsletters and turns them into a book.which he publishes. It's an anthology of the newsletters. He publishes them himself called Siege in 1993. It becomes a cult classic. It's promoted by this network of people. Basically it's part of the punk rock and assorted underground music and cultural scene, there was a real right wing edge to it, part of which is a predecessor to the alt-right. People like Jim Goad who was the direct inspiration for people like Gavin McInnes of the Proud Boys. There's a lot of nazi imagery circulating, so actual nazis can function in the scene, and it's never clear who's using nazi imagery ironically, or with some interest in nazism but they're not an actual nazi, and who's an actual nazi. It's very unclear, and in this confusion, they can hide, circulate their things, and get some attention. And they do get attention with this book. It gets– There are interviews and it's covered in the alternative weekly newspapers, which were very popular at the time since the internet wasn't what it is now, many which had circulation in tens of thousands in different cities. So they were able to use this network to popularize James Mason's ideas. The book goes out of print. Gets reprinted in 2003 by a fellow in Montana. And he keeps it in circulation, and then it gets picked up with the alt-right, with the Iron March platform which is a discussion board that all these contemporary terrorists, alt-right terrorist groups, neo-nazi terrorist groups come out of, Atomwaffen and others come out of. And they reprint the book yet again. It continues to be circulated as a pro-terrorism cult classic. Mike: So do you think there are any other individuals or groups worth mentioning? Spencer: There are like scattered ones. There's a guy named Rocky Suhayda, I believe is his name who runs a group called the American Nazi Party. It used to get a lot of attention because he was good at using social media and various internet media. So people could always quote him and say the American Nazi Party says X or Y. Although, he was just a random NSWPP member. Art Jones came out of the party while he was in Chicago, and he's a sort of perennial candidate there. But in 2016, the Republicans failed to run someone against him in the primary. It was in a heavily Democratic district. And so in lieu of that he became the Republican candidate for– I forget what it was, US rep or something. And he's a nazi, a Holocaust denier. And so this was all in the news, you know “How is a Holocaust denier the Republican candidate?” This had been– This was a strategy that Nazis developed in the 70s. They would run for offices. Until the late 70s, it was a much more kind of benign movement in a way, not ideologically, but in their tactics, they had not moved into this murderous terrorism phase until a little later on. And so he continues that kind of– It's actually a toolbox of tactics that go back into the 60s: doing things that are kind of publicity stunts to get attention, one of which is running for office. So briefly Jones got in the press. He was in the press again. He tried to run again in 2020, but the Republicans finally like, they put somebody up. I mean, this is the problem, parties have limited resources. If you're putting someone up just to defeat somebody else in the primary even though you know you won't win in the general, that's a waste of your resources. It shows how nazis and other white supremacists can sort of drain resources from the mainstream in an attempt to just not let them get a foothold in the various places that they're trying to– In the various little cracks they're trying to stick their fingers in. Mike: And you mentioned Harold Covington. Do you want to talk about him too? Spencer: Sure. Covington died a couple years ago but had some influence even on the alt-right. He was again a member of the NSWPP. He had taken over the NSPA from Collin after he'd gotten Collin arrested for being a child molester and exposed him as of Jewish descent. Ran that party for a bit. He was also– Some members of his party–he was in North Carolina–took part in the Greensboro massacre in 1979 where a joint group of nazis and Klansmen had killed communists who unwisely held a “Death to the Klan” march but were not prepared for what they had prodded. He ran for attorney general around the same time in North Carolina, state attorney general, and got 40% of the vote. There are a few other instances like this where neo-nazis were able to get a huge amount of votes around this time period. This is around the period where Duke's– Well Duke's elected later, I guess. So he goes to this– He does all this crazy stuff. He goes to Africa to fight in Rhodesia. He was this contentious fellow. Had falling outs with everyone. Moves to the Pacific Northwest, and becomes the last of this old guard of people who are advocating the states in the Pacific Northwest, which are overwhelmingly white, break off from the rest of the country and form a white ethnostate. His last group was called the Northwest Front which I believe still exists today. And they would both advocate this idea, try to get involved in the various– There's a regionalist/independence movement called Cascadia that wants to break some of that area off, but it wants a kind of lefty leaning, ecological state or regionalist entity, and so he tried to give that a specifically racist cast. So this created, again, a lot of these groups in the Cascadian movement, whatever you think about it (There's a lot of kooks.) they had to move and take their resources just to fight the white nationalists within their ranks, to make sure the white na– Because it was popular. You go to Portland; you see people with Cascadian flags on their porches and stuff. There's a sort of intuitive popularity for it there. So they then had to redirect resources to fight against these people, to show that they weren't racist. It might have been good in a way because it forces groups to commit to an anti-racist stance. The presence of white nationalists sometimes does shape up these majority groups to affirm anti-racism. So maybe there is a silver lining to that. Mike: Dr. Sunshine, thank you again for coming on The Nazi Lies Podcast. You can keep up to date with Dr. Sunshine's writings through his newsletter the Sonnenschein Update which you can find on his website. And you can donate to his Patreon. It's also on his website, spencersunshine.com. This has been real fun. Hope we can have you back again for a book release. Spencer: Yeah, it was great chatting with you as always, Mike. [Theme song]

Hello, I'm Luis Alicea, and I'm currently on active duty in the U.S Army, going on 20 years of active service and 21 years of total service to our nation. I will officially retire in August of 2021, culminating in my career as a First Sergeant. I joined the Army on June 14, 2000 (Army Birthday), and served three years on active duty. In June of 2003, I transitioned into the reserve component of the U.S Army, where I served for nine months before enlisting on active duty for a second time. In my career, I supported two peacekeeping missions, one to Saudia Arabia and one to Hungary. On both these missions, I served with Erik Castillo. I have also participated in four combat tours. Two tours in Iraq and two to Afghanistan. On my second tour to Iraq, I suffered wounds from a suicide vehicle born improvised explosive device. This event changed my outlook on life. I have also helped train future Army leaders in Morroco and Honduras. I've been stationed in Fort Bragg, NC twice, Baumholder, Germany, Fort Polk, LA, Anchorage, AK, Bloomington, IN, Dongducheon, Korea, and now Fort Drum, NY. Upon retirement, I hope to work in the fitness industry as a strength and conditioning coach, helping people see their potential and helping young athletes learn about leadership and team development. I currently hold a USA Weightlifting Level 1 Certification, a Certified Weightlifting Performance Coach Certification, and a Certified Speed and Agility Coach Certification, both from NSPA. I'm also five classes away from a Bachelor of Science in Sports and Health Sciences with a concentration in Exercise Science. You can follow him here: Facebook - Luis Alicea Instagram - @coach.alicea82 You can follow me here: Facebook - Erik Castillo, Warrior Mindset and Motivation Instagram - @curly815 @warriormindset.motivation YouTube - Warrior Mindset and Motivation LinkedIn - Erik Castillo --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/warrior-mindset-and-motiv/support

Stell Dir mal vor, alle Waren und Dienstleistungen hätten ein Preisetikett in einer bestimmten Farbe Lebensmittel haben ein Preisetikett in der Farbe grünSpaß und Freizeitaktivitäten haben ein Preisetikett in der Farbe blauWeiterbildungsprodukte haben ein Preisetikett in der Farbe OrangeLuxusartikel und Luxusleistungen haben ein Preisetikett in der Farbe lilaSpendendosen und Wohltätigkeitsersuchen haben ein Etikett in der Farbe rotUrlaubsreiseangebote haben ein Preisetikett in der Farbe gelbLangfristige Anschaffungen haben ein Preisetikett in der Farbe schwarz Und nun stelle Dir bitte einmal vor, man müsste Geld nachdem man es bekommt einmalig in einer bestimmten Farbe einfärben. Bei der Bezahlung wird geprüft, ob die Farbe deines Geldes mit der Farbe des Preisetiketts zusammen passt oder nicht. Ich bin sicher, du würdest schnell verstehen und lernen, dass man Geld nicht ausgeben kann für etwas, das nur mit Geld einer anderen Farbe bezahlt werden darf. Klingt für dich sicher wie von einem anderen Planeten. Aber bitte denke kurz einmal darüber nach, was das für dich im speziellen und für die Menschen im Allgemeinen bedeuten würde. Was würde geschehen, wenn jeder Mensch sein Geld-Einkommen einfärben muss und dies auch nur einmalig einfärben kann und wenn er dann auch nur Produkte oder Leistungen erwerben kann, deren Preisetikett dieselbe Farbe haben. Ich denke, folgendes würde passieren: Die Menschen würden sehr genau darüber nachdenken, wie sie ihr Geld aufteilen und in welcher Farbe sie es einfärben. Die Menschen würden für Urlaub und langfristige Anschaffungen im Voraus ihr benötigtes Geld planen und dann kontinuierlich – Monat für Monat – Einen bestimmten Betrag von Ihrem Geld-Einkommen in diesen Farben einfärben und sicher verwahren, für den Zeitpunkt an dem der Urlaub oder die Anschaffung ansteht. Die Menschen würden sich bewusst machen, für was sie ihr Geld ausgeben und müssten sich begrenzen. Denn niemand will am Ende des Monats ohne Geld für Lebensmittel dastehen. Geld zwischen verschiedenen Farben mit anderen Menschen zu tauschen wäre übrigens eine Straftat und würde mit mehreren Jahren Freiheitsentzug bestraft, nur falls du gerade den Gedanken hattest, eine Tauschbörse eröffnen zu wollen. Es ist lediglich gestattet, 10 Prozent der Geld-Einnahmen in einer Sonderfarbe (Neonpink) einzufärben und in eine Kriegskasse zu legen, für unvorhersehbare Ereignisse, zu denen eben eine Geld-Reserve zwingend erforderlich ist. Mit dieser Farbe darfst du alles bezahlen. Es ist wie ein Joker, der beliebig eingesetzt werden kann. Wie wäre dein Leben, dein Alltag in so einer Welt der Geldfarben? Denke bitte einmal konkret darüber nach und lege fest, wie du dich in einer solchen Situation verhalten würdest. Wie würde deine Geldverteilung und -einfärbung ablaufen? Wie würdest du das Geld für Lebensmittel verwenden? vielleicht würdest du es in Wochenbudgets aufteilen, weil dir ein Monat zu lange vorkommt, um den Überblick zu behalten. Wer wäre der Farbenkönig in eurer Familie oder Partnerschaft und würde die Geld-Aufteilungskonferenz leiten? Und wenn du das übertragen auf unser reales Leben anwenden willst, dann empfehle ich Dir verschieden farbige Portmonees, deren Geld-Inhalt du nur zweckgebunden für die Produkte oder Dienstleitungen dieser Farbe ausgibst. Dazu musst du dich selbst verpflichten. Viele gute Erkenntnisse wünsche ich Dir dabei.

Hello, I'm Luis Alicea, and I'm currently on active duty in the U.S Army, going on 20 years of active service and 21 years of total service to our nation. I will officially retire in August of 2021, culminating in my career as a First Sergeant. I joined the Army on June 14, 2000 (Army Birthday), and served three years on active duty. In June of 2003, I transitioned into the reserve component of the U.S Army, where I served for nine months before enlisting on active duty for a second time. In my career, I supported two peacekeeping missions, one to Saudia Arabia and one to Hungary. On both these missions, I served with Erik Castillo. I have also participated in four combat tours. Two tours in Iraq and two to Afghanistan. On my second tour to Iraq, I suffered wounds from a suicide vehicle born improvised explosive device. This event changed my outlook on life. I have also helped train future Army leaders in Morroco and Honduras. I've been stationed in Fort Bragg, NC twice, Baumholder, Germany, Fort Polk, LA, Anchorage, AK, Bloomington, IN, Dongducheon, Korea, and now Fort Drum, NY. Upon retirement, I hope to work in the fitness industry as a strength and conditioning coach, helping people see their potential and helping young athletes learn about leadership and team development. I currently hold a USA Weightlifting Level 1 Certification, a Certified Weightlifting Performance Coach Certification, and a Certified Speed and Agility Coach Certification, both from NSPA. I'm also five classes away from a Bachelor of Science in Sports and Health Sciences with a concentration in Exercise Science. You can follow him here: ~Facebook: Luis Alicea~ Instagram: @l.alic3a82 -Follow me: Erik Castillo: ~Facebook: Erik Castillo; Warrior Mindset and Motivation; Straight Couch Talk Podcast ~Instagram: @curly815; @straightcouchtalk ~YouTube: Warrior Mindset and Motivation; Straight Couch Talk Podcast ~Periscope: @curly815 ~Email: straightcouchtalk@gmail.com ~Paypal: @erikcastillo815 ~Venmo: @curly815 --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/warrior-mindset-and-motiv/support

Susan McNulty became a yearbook adviser early in her career as a teacher, but budget cuts tore her away from the role. Years later, she took over the J.W. Mitchell yearbook program the same year her daughter served as editor-in-chief (the outgoing adviser had assigned the roles before McNulty took over). She took over a strong yearbook program, and books under her leadership have won recognition from all over, including the All-American from NSPA, Gold Medalist from CSPA, and All-Florida from FSPA. In this episode, McNulty and podcast host Jim Jordan discuss her career, her classroom, and the pressure of finishing a yearbook while the world grapples with the coronavirus. You can learn more in the accompanying blog post on the Walsworth Yearbooks blog!

John Philbin is the founder of the NSPA, a former Olympic bobsled coach, and a former strength and conditioning coach with the Washington Nationals, San Diego Padres, and New York Yankees. In this episode we talks about why high intensity training is ideal for athletes, the wonders of manual resistance, and what it takes to be successful as a strength coach at the Olympic and MLB level. Follow John @philbin_sports_performance on Instagram or visit him at https://philbinsp.com/

Listen in and learn what the Complete Sports Performance Podcast is all about. The owner and CEO of Athletes Acceleration, Pat Beith, spares no details about Athletes Acceleration new headquarters, the NSPA, the Inner Circle Membership, and much more.

Asa! S-au votat iar mariri si schimbari in sistemul de pensii! Da-ti un click si aflati mai jos de ce faza cu pensiile e naspa rau de tot si, oricum, compromisa demult. Chiar sunt curios sa aflu parerea voastra. Buuun! Macar asa se va prabusi totul mult mai repede. Din nou: ras cu plans balega de manz PSD-ist. Sa vedeti voi colaps si dezastru... :))) Cum zice si prietenul Gabi Biris, macar nu mai asteptam ca prostii, amagindu-ne singuri, prabusirea pana-n 2030. Ea va veni, pe sistemul actual, cel tarziu in 2020-2021. ACUM, LA MODUL CEL MAI SERIOS, va dau doar cateva indicii: + 80 de milairde de lei in 2021, adica +7% din PIB deficit, adica + 25% cheltuieli ale bugetului consolidat... pam-pam! Si asta nu e totul. Chiar si fara mariri, sistemul de pensii actual e gandit in anii '60 ai secolului trecut, iat atunci era gandit sa finanteze 5-8 ani de pensie. Intre timp speranta de viata a crescut enorm (ceea ce nu e rau), iar sistemul trebuie sa sustina 12-13-15 ani de pensie, in medie, adica de 3 ori mai mult... asta in conditiile in care natalitatea scade, populatia e imbatranita (in toata Europa), iar activii care sustin pensionarii se imputineaza... Fiti atenti: deficitul fondurilor de pensii la nivel global creste cu +5% p.a. (mult peste cresterea economica), se estimeaza un deficit in 2050 de 400 trilioane USD, adica 4x economia globala azi. Atat si o frunza! Follow & Like: web: https://www.em360.ro facebook: https://www.facebook.com/EconomieLaMinut/ youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCOe7mKABe-lIXS2aH6QgFw soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/em360cuadimaniutiu spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0WLk2k1dHFeStdFmh46Mwj?si=Y2dL5LYcThW4ttyOsA4tyw itunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/ro/podcast/em360-cu-adi-maniutiu/id1465259454

We answer questions from you all like: Why Muscle Snatches are awesome, Micro-Dosing training for performance, training hamstrings for performance. And more! We are brought to you by the NSPA, learn more at www.nspa.org

Episode 24 - Student Press Freedom and Censorship for Yearbook Recorded live at the National High School Journalism Convention in Chicago on 11/2/18, this panel discussion and Q&A with advisers Lori Keekly, Brian Wilson and Sarah Nichols covers a wide range of issues and topics related to censorship and empowering our students' press freedoms. Thank you to JEA and NSPA for supporting the session, and thank you to the 200+ students, advisers and yearbook professionals who joined us in the live audience! Check out the Student Press Law Center's brand-new website at SPLC.org and follow them online at @SPLC. Contact the Scholastic Press Rights Committee at www.jeasprc.org at any time, and find us on Twitter at @jeapressrights; learn more about New Voices at NewVoicesUS.com. This podcast is powered by Pinecast.

Happy National Yearbook Week! This week is all about celebrating yearbook and building a better yearbook program. That makes it the perfect time for host Mike Taylor to bring in Gary Lundgren of the National Scholastic Press Association (NSPA). In this episode, Mike and Gary discuss the benefits of NSPA members, and how the organization helps yearbook staffs and advisers hone their craft. They cover the difference between a critique and the eminent Pacemaker competition, NSPA's upcoming conventions, how advisers can find their footing and improve their program, and even dip their toes in the great debate: In N Out versus Whataburger. Learn more about NSPA at studentpress.org. You can find Mike Taylor on Twitter at @yrbkmiketaylor (#AskMike) or reach him at podcasts@walsworth.com.

On this episode coach Dos and I talk about athlete nutrition. Including my favorite recommendations for long term success for athletes. Why macro counting makes me want to pull my hair out. And how Dos has been a vegan for almost 30 years, and how to do vegan nutrition for athletes. We are brought to you by the NSPA, learn more at nspa.org

In this episode I bring on Matt Sizemore who is an online marketer from Grand Rapids, Michigan. Matt has been essential in the development and sales of over 150 different products for some of the biggest names and organizations in the fitness industry. He's worked with Pat Rigsby, Eric Cressey, Mike Robertson, Athlete's Acceleration and the NSPA, to name a few. Today, Matt walks us through, step by step, how to create and sell a product online. This is a fantastic episode and Matt provides a lot of information for coaches who want to create and sell their own product. Thanks for listening and don't forget to rate and review! 

On this episode Coach Dos talks to Matt Cather, owner of CozmoSize. Coach Cather has built a viral and recognizable brand from scratch and done so in some challenging conditions. Learn how he did it. We are brought to you by the NSPA, learn more at www.NSPA.org

On this episode Coach Dos interviews Mike Yudin. Mike has produced dozens of MLB Players, top softball, volleyball, and football players all out of his garage in CA. Learn how Mike has become the go-to guy in his area, and how he continually produces results. We are brought to you by the NSPA, learn more at www.nspa.org

ATTENTION: If you use Olympic Lifts you have to listen to this episode. On this episode, coach Mike McKenna and I go over the 5 things you have to do to be great at weightlifting technique. This episode is perfect for weightlifters and athletes alike. We distill weightlifting down to the most important points. We are brought to you by the NSPA, learn more at www.nspa.org

I make one of the most outlandish claims ever, but it is 100% true. Check it out on this episode, as well as cool stuff we've learned from lee Taft on speed training, Joe DeFranco and the prowler. As always we are brought to you by the NSPA, learn more at www.nspa.org

Vince is a coach at Force Fitness and Performance. After 4 years of d1 soccer Vince has become a great young strength coach in our industry and someone I constantly learn from. He talks about lessons learned at Cressey Performance Transfer of training for court and field sports What we prioritize in our programs at Force Fitness. We are brought to you by the NSPA, learn more at www.nspa.org

Jordan Berke is the co-founder of Squats and Science and RepOneStrength.com. His companies are aiming to revolutionize barbell tracking technology and move it into a 3D sphere. On this episode we talk about: Best methods for using VBT in training How to go beyond VBT and do true Motion Based Training Some of the unique numbers they will be able to quantify with the development of RepOneStrength. Learn more at reponestrength.com. We are brought to you by the NSPA, learn more at NSPA.org

Brian Buck is the Director of Customer Success for Sparta Science. Sparta Science is an industry leading solution for reducing injuries and optimizing performance with validated scientific assessments. We talk about what kind of information Sparta Science looks for in their assessment. How more data is helping them get better. Brian's journey from the Minor Leagues to MLB strength coach to high tech company. We are brought to you by the NSPA, learn more at www.nspa.org

Coach Scott Thom is a basketball strength and conditioning and player development coach at Marin College. He has held the same position at Cal and at Washington State University. On this episode coach Dos interviews him about creating buy in, how to teach through discipline , the differences in training at the high school, college and pro level and more. Learn more at www.scottthom.com We are brought to you by the NSPA, learn more at www.nspa.org

We interview Geralyn Coopersmith, CCO of Flywheel Sports and formerly of NIke, and Equinox. Geralyn talks about her path from personal trainer to working for global corporations like Equinox, Nike, and Flywheel sports She shares the unique traits that she has found in successful trainers from her time leading education for Equinox and Nike. We are brought to you by the NSPA. Learn more at www.nspa.org

In this episode I interview Dave Ballou, Director of Athletic Performance, Indiana University. We talk about Coach Ballou's journey from high school strength coach to Director at at Big Ten university, and how that happened. What he got wrong at the high school level, and what that spurred him on to do going forward. How they train for power The number one marker for speed on the football field We are brought to you by the NSPA, learn more at NSPA.org

Dr. Chris Holder is the head strength and conditioning coach at Cal Poly University. On this episode we dive deep on implementing meditation practices to improve performance in athletes (and coaches too). As always we are brought to you by the NSPA, learn more at www.nspa.org

In this special episode I interview coach Travis Mash of Mash Elite Performance and Mash Mafia weightlifting. Coach Mash is one of the most successful and well rounded coaches in America in strength sports. He has worked with NFL players, 100's of division 1 athletes, been the coach for the USA world team in weightlifting and was a world record powerlifter himself. We are brought to you by the NSPA, learn more at NSPA.org

We interview Sean Skahan of the Minnesota Wild. Sean tells us about his path to being one of the longest tenured strength coaches in the NHL (talk about awesome mentors!) The unique challenges of being an NHL strength coach. How to walk the line of working with athletes who have another strength coach. We are brought to you by NSPA.org

On this live episode from the NSPA National conference we interview Bobby Smith, owner of RYPT training. Bobby talks about how he sets the tone with every session everyday in his facility. How he has become the GO-TO place for female athletes to train in New Jersey. We are brought to you by NSPA.org.

On this episode recorded live at the NSPA national conference, we have the Godfather of speed, Lee Taft. We talk about the innateness of speed, vs weightlifting The Plyo step and it's origins And the "most athletic thing Lee has ever seen" We are brought to you by the NSPA, learn more and become a certified coach at NSPA.org

On this episode we have one of our favorite repeat guests ever, Alwyn Cosgrove. We talk about What prompted him to get on instagram after avoiding it for a long time. Why he ran over 30 races in 2017. Why creating competition opportunities for your clients is a MUST How to train for obstacle course races and how this growing sport is an untapped market We are brought to you by the NSPA, check them out at NSPA.org

On this episode we interview, Donnie Maib, Director of Strength and Conditioning, Olympic Sports at the University of Texas. We talk about: How he got to UT. Playing football with Goldberg Eliminating unimportant data for your athletes How a 90kg clean changed the way he trains for volleyball How he trains his top ranked teams on a yearly, monthly, and weekly basis. Connect with Coach Maib on instagram @donniemaib Thanks to the NSPA, our sponsor, NSPA.org

On this Christmas edition of the mailbag we take your questions about: Should you train strength and energy systems on the same day? How should you progress your agility training with athletes? How I trained to set 3 (more) national records in weightlifting? As always we are brought to you by the NSPA, learn more at nspa.org

On this episode Coach Dos and I talk to Henry Ruggiero, Director of Physical Performance for MLS club, Real Salt Lake. We talk about how he got to this position. How to train his players during a 9 month in-season period. How RSL trains athletes differently based on positions. How to use data to influence future training decisions. LTAD and RSL's academy system. As always we are brought to you by the NSPA, learn more at NSPA.org

On this episode Coach Dos and I talk to the CEO and founder of the NSPA and Athlete's Acceleration, Pat Beith. We talk about his story to create AA and the NSPA. What makes the NSPA different How to have success with online info-products. This episode is brought to you by the NSPA. Learn more at NSPA.org

On this episode Coach Dos and I go through our favorite exercises in the big movement categories.  Explosive, and where does rotational power fall in this Knee Dominant, why front squats are better than back squats Hip dominant, and why we don't love deadlifts Push, Pull and why you can't beat a push-up.  Plus our favorite core exercises.  We are brought to you by the NSPA, attend their national conference at http://nspa.org/

On this episode Dos and I interview Matt Durant, head strength coach at the University of La Verne.  Coach Durant talks about: His history and how his father being a strength and football coach for over 42 years made him choose his profession.  How one viral video changed his life.  The unique challenges of being a D3 strength coach.  We are brought to you by the NSPA, learn about their national conference at http://nspa.org/

On this episode Coach Dos and I go over our bedrock principles of training.  Wil's Principles: 1) Weightlifting is the fastest way to improved power.  2)Everyone needs GPP before special preparation. 3)Weightlifting movements are a terrible for conditioning Dos' Principles: 1)Everyone needs power. 2)Programming is the critical key to improvement. 3) Every session should aim to improve work capacity. We are brought to you by the NSPA, Learn about their national conference at nspa.org/national-conference

On this episode Coach Dos and I interview Coach Tim Socha, University of Washington Strength Coach. Last year, Socha played a key role in the Huskies winning the Pac-12 and earning a berth in the College Football Playoff.  He was named the FootballScoop.com National Strength Coach of the Year. We talk about the 4 levels of training at UW.  How to create competition in your team How he uses the Olympic lifts with his athletes As always we are brought to you by the NSPA, Learn more at NSPA.org  

On what might be our best episode ever, Coach Dos and I interview Brian Nguyen. Brian has gained fame as the trainer of Mark Wahlberg. Brian shares with us his journey from working in the NFL, to working on movies, running a successful gym.  How 2 tragedies have shaped his career. Why all the training tools in the world can't beat your number 1 tool, your heart.  How connecting with the people around you is what we are made to do.  As always we are brought to you by the NSPA, check out info about their national conference http://nspa.org/nspa-nationalconference/

On this episode I interview Mike Yudin, Owner of Team Yudin about his success and his athletes.  We talk about how he developed 6 MLB draft picks this year.  How he trains his baseball players and softball players. If they use Olympic Lifts for baseball and softball. How he keeps his athletes for 5+ years routinely.  How he has dominated his local market for training. We are brought to you by the NSPA

On this episode coach Dos and I talk about:  My training leading up to my next weightlifting meet.  The most successful way to periodize a weightlifting program when you aren't on drugs.  How this method is very close to alternating linear periodization.  Why rest is the most important part of your periodization.  How to bring periodization into group training and why that is the next evolution of group training for the masses.  As always we are brought to you by the NSPA, learn more about the NSPA by checking out Coach Dos' Certified Program Design Specialist Course

Dr. Rob Bell is a sports psychologist who has worked with professional athletes, elite professional teams and collegiate teams.  In this episode we talk about Mental toughness.  Why mental toughness is more often caught than taught.  How routine can take away stress during competition. Why every great athlete has had a "hinge" moment.  The one thing that every athlete could do Today to have a better mental game.  Learn more from Dr. Rob Bell at DrRobBell.com As always we are brought to you by the NSPA. 

Coach Dos interviews David Padilla solo! Coach David Padilla is an amazing young strength coach in the South Florida area, and he offers his best advice to coaches looking to get into collegiate and high school strength and conditioning!    As always we are brought to you by the NSPA, Be on the lookout for the NSPA national summit in Texas Jan 5-7

On this episode Dos and I talk to our good friend and bossman of DVRT/Ultimate Sandbag's Josh Henkin.  We discuss:  Why rotational training has to be a part of a complete program How everyone should rotate to transfer to sport and life.  Then we dig into the meat of the podcast and discuss the difference between workouts and training, and why only good coaches are training their athletes and clients.  As always we are brought to you by the NSPA, check out Dos' Certified Program Design Specialist course HERE

In this 4th installment of the return of the Performance Podcast we answer listener questions.  Why is power training important at all ages? Should you quit calling it a clean "pull"? When should you open a bigger gym, and why?  And more!  As always we are brought to you by the NSPA, check out Coach Dos' Certified Program Design Specialist Course HERE

Coach Dos and I talk about "strength standards," how strong might be too strong (or why chasing that extra strength might not actually help).  We talk about how we go about getting people strong, clue: consistency.  We wrap up with a visit from my main man Jack, so listen to the end!  As always we are brought to you by the NSPA, learn more about my certification, the CWPC, HERE

We're still back! 2 weeks in a row, I guess you could say it's getting serious. Coach Dos and I talk about athlete development, what's appropriate at different ages, and what's realistic to expect.    This week's episode is brought to you by the NSPA. Check out the Speed and Power Summit recordings on sale now by going HERE

The newest episode returns with our new sponsor the NSPA. On this episode me and Dos talk about what's been up, some of the cool new things we have learned since our last episode about a year ago.    We dive into online training and where the industry is heading.    Thanks to the NSPA, our sponsor, check out the Complete Speed and Power Summit (which we can't stop talking about) HERE

Coach Taylor is the founder and owner of SMARTER Team Training. STT has been developed to focus on athlete and team development, performance, and education since March 2009. SMARTER Team Training has been recognized as an Approved Continuing Education (CEU) Provider for the NSCA, BOC, NSPA, ACE, NFPT and CSCCa. Taylor was the Head Strength and Conditioning Coach at Loyola University Maryland for over seven years. Rob was a strength and conditioning consultant for athletes on the Women’s Lacrosse World Cup Champion’s Team Australia in 2005, and was the Head Strength Coach for Team Australia’s 2009 World Cup team which played in the world championship game also. He has worked with professional organizations such as the Anaheim Angels, Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Tampa Bay Mutiny, and San Antonio Silver Stars. Coach Taylor has also been the Head Strength and Conditioning Coach at UNC Greensboro. He left to pursue a graduate degree in Exercise Physiology from the University of Delaware, while working as an Assistant Strength and Conditioning Coach. Rob has also worked with the athletic department at Cincinnati, Princeton, and Villanova. At each of these institutions he has helped numerous athletes reach their dream of becoming professional athletes. Rob’s athletes have gone on to be drafted by the NFL, MLB, NBA, MLS, MLL, NLL and participate in the Olympic Games. www.smarterteamtraining.com www.sttpodcast.com 

Author Everett Lehman discusses his article, "Compliance With Bloodborne Pathogen Standards at Eight Correctional Facilities."