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The way that the intro to this game is framed by a theatrical performance is absolutely brilliant. Once again, Sakaguchi displays his prowess in the drafting of yet another beautiful and captivating introductory sequence that holds our attention and immerses us into a new and exciting world in Final Fantasy IX. We discuss the beginning of this game all the way up until the ship crashes into the Evil Forest. For next week, play up to the arrival into Lindblum. Developers playing the game and commenting on the music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r05g9m4DBv0 Time Codes: 1. Intro (0:00) 2. Star Screen Movie (0:45) 3. The Logo (4:06) 4. The Opening Song (8:04) 5. Character Introductions (9:34) 6. Intro Cinematic (12:04) 7. Tantalus (15:30) 8. Dialogue Boxes (18:29) 9. First Fight (24:16) 10. The Writing (26:21) 11. The Strategy Guide (31:50) 12. Pre-Rendered Backgrounds (37:49) 13. The Cinematics (42:27) 14. Vivi (44:29) 15. Steiner (47:48) 16. Sakaguchi Is Brilliant At Intros (50:51) 17. Action Timed Mini-games (1:01:50) 18. Illusion Vs. Reality (1:04:01) 19. The Games Design (1:06:46) 20. Shakespeare in Final Fantasy (1:12:33) 21. Crashing Into The Evil Forest (1:13:39) **Listen On Spotify**: https://open.spotify.com/show/4gIzzvT3AfRHjGlfF8kFW3 **Listen On Soundcloud**: https://soundcloud.com/resonantarc **Listen On iTunes**: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/state-of-the-arc-podcast/id1121795837 **Listen On Pocket Cast**: http://pca.st/NJsJ Patreon Page: https://www.patreon.com/resonantarc Subscribe Star: https://www.subscribestar.com/resonant-arc Twitter: https://twitter.com/resonantarc Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/resonantarc Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/resonantarc TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@resonantarc

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This week, Lindsey gets to play a little game to decide which anime series she'll be watching. She'll listen to three anime OPs randomly selected from Mackenzie's childhood VHS collection and can only ask one question before deciding her fate! Whichever she doesn't choose today, she'll be watching in the near future, so don't worry if you heard a song you know and are sad it didn't get chosen! Visit our Patreon to support the podcast: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠patreon.com/animeighties⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. Your help allows us to improve the podcast and offer more retro anime content! If you'd like to check out our retro anime video essays, or our incredibly funny short videos, please subscribe to our YouTube Channel: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.youtube.com/@AnimEighties⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ If you'd like to follow us on social media we are @animeighties everywhere! If you liked this episode please rate and leave a review! If you have feedback or questions, please email us at animeighties@gmail.com

Join in the beautiful return of modern day short stories by host NicheL Anderson, in her newest storyline "MOLIAE Love Groove" from her Youtube MOLIAE Channel MOLIAE Love Groove Playlist. Nichel returns with the new characters of Cynthia and her crush from College as both of them are overseas on business trip and he sends her special gift that starts the change to consider what will make out their reunite to try new love again.  Tune in to divine storytelling that is of giving nature as well as learning the aspect of the journey of love.  --- Opening Song by Artist:  Jadhe'  Song title: "Accra to Oktap" Album Feature Spotify Url;  https://open.spotify.com/album/6fIxk0byiGKFj8sJ4ju28F?si=cFwcDP3fQhu44lUTMA32Ww -- Support the funding dream to film her M-Film project by buying her songs Remix version only on MOLIAE.com that was audio mixed by Nichel!     **NEWS | Become a MEMBER today and get access to original divine "exclusive" short stories monthly. Subscribe here:  Join   Visit Official Website: MOLIAE.com Get Nichel MOLIAE song "You Know Me" at: https://MOLIAE.com/Song  |  from the forthcoming album "When Love Was Divine" --- *Support Nichel's dream to film her book the M-Film project.  Buy the songs remix: moliae.com/shop   MOLIAE Music "You Know Me" now available for download as the anticipated wait for the album. ---   Go here for the Atlantans song remix to support Nichel's production and the M-Film;  https://moliae.com/atlantans-song Atlantans - Song  | available now remix, support M-Film project ---the more rap version "We Are Atlantans" remix tba on moliae.com  -------- https://moliae.com/song    You Know Me song --------- https://moliae.com/shop Kingship song   Songs are available globally but the remix of songs only available on official MOLIAE website.   --- Stream Spotify Nichel's songs:    You Know Me https://open.spotify.com/album/4gd09XfrS5KFby3JbAjDxC?si=Jq-RRza7QrWDdY_aZ_53NQ -- Atlantans  https://open.spotify.com/album/1V2DjkvDteCb9UFwr0m6OC?si=AMNciL30SKyOz1agxoE7oA -- We Are Atlantans https://open.spotify.com/album/3ecYQyZ2INxYcTQ1yEUd9l?si=DzGSldhjRSS-ySjz_haVDA -- Kingship https://open.spotify.com/track/6PqzW6hkAkx0dHUMabj6pN?si=dc3e0b2c990f441b --- When Love Was Divine https://open.spotify.com/track/6ta4GKvwYSBfffeZ2NHhaO?si=2cf54113cc434d6e   ---- Summer Break Schedule 2025 Episodes Release Dates: June 30, 2025 July 28, 2025 August 25, 2025   Buy The Book:  "Mitsrayim: A Memoir of A Past Life In Ancient Egypt" Available on Amazon.com and Barnes-n-Noble   | Follow and Share - FOLLOW MOLIAE on Social Media & Share this! 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PMTR NFTs collection is of 10,000 classmates that are pixel pyramids on Ethereum blockchain with symbolism and meaning with numerology and astrology as our ancient ancestors did so in Sumner and Ancient Egypt/Mitsrayim. In this collection theme purpose, additionally, the mystery to whom took their swords is uptmost concern, in particular, the 24 HUJTA swords (there are more swords assigned to each pyramid) when the call to vote (for whom will be task to solve the mystery that will launch another NFTs future collection "Aspu Legends of Lions" that will be in 3D) follow the storyline that is the bedrock of intrigue written by no other than the prestige Ms. Nichel Anderson creating the official MOLIAE World from her book "Mitsrayim: A Memoir of A Past Life in Ancient Egypt" : The PMTR NFTs collection Utilities. --- MOLIAE Comic book series episodes will be announce for the timeline before the podcast series - "The disloyalty amongst the Tribal Leaders" available on Webtoons to catch up on this saga series: Vol 1  "A Deal Was Made In The Cosmos"  ------- You LOVING this episode "free bonus" then UPGRADE to PRIME Membership available Exclusively on Substack, sign up to get more of these short stories, special guests interviews access, Director notes and more now here:  https://moliae.com/membership-levels   Share this, follow the podcast and tune in as you support the podcast and get you a brand Tshirt at MOLIAE.com and pick up a NFT at MINT.MOLIAEWORLD.com    ---- Check Out Brand of Essential Body Oils: MOLIAE Beauty Shop: https://moliaebeauty.com   GIFT BOX KITS | You want to send Ancient Egypt in a beautiful one of a kind present treasure chest. 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Yes!  Casey is back.  Back again!  The Jogging Jesus going Old School and sharing lessons from thousands of years ago that are still so relevant to today.  Our land does need some healing.  Here you go...Opening Song:  "Your Peace Will Make Us One" by Audrey Assad, give her some love and buy/support her music.

On this episode Manon Kerjean and ARBL Murray sit down with director Nicolas Peduzzi to talk about his latest documentary film Etat Limité or "On the Edge."  The Film follows a young psychiatrist Jamal during his daily rounds at the well-known Hospital Beaujon on the edge of Paris. Jamal has to navigate time constraints and budgetary restrictions whilst trying to care for his patients as best he can. Shot over the corse of 3 years, Etat Limité is an incredible portrait of the compassion of a young doctor and limitations of the healthcare system.  Nicolas Peduzzi is a French actor and director. He studied theater and cinema in Italy and New York. His first feature documentary, Southern Belle, a portrait of real-life 26 year-old Texan Taelor Ranzau, was released in 2018, and won the Grand Prix of the FID Marseille in 2019. In 2021. His next film Ghost Song portrayed young people in Houston living on the "fringes" and fighting for survival. Etat Limité is his latest documentary.  You can find him on instagram @nicolaspeduzzi Film Recommendations from this episode: On the Adamant: (Sur L'Adamant) 2023 by Nicolas Philibert - Follows patients and caregivers at a psychiatric centre with a unique floating structure located in the middle of the Seine river in central Paris. Ětra Là: 2012 by Régis Sauder. A story about the psychiatrists, nurses or occupational therapists at the Baumettes detention center in Marseille who receive inmates and help them with their mental illness. The work is hard and thankless but for these workers it is a necessity to participate in the helping of those who suffer. Opening Song in the Film: Evile Grimace: Pour Mes Gens This episode was recorded at L'Epée de Bois   

We return to another episode of series "Atlantis" | Part 10 "New Love Rises Within Another" "short story, were one of the twins gets a visit by one of the citizens of their brother rule kingdom on Atlantis and there seems to perhaps start of a new interest amongst the restructuring of power as their brother is still recouping from his ordeal lead up to Part 7 of Atlantis. Tune in to find out which twin and where it will go next in this new exciting short story series.  --- Opening Song by Artist:  "Fai$al"  Song title: "Afterschool" Youtube: FAI$AL IG: FAI$ALGOGAGA -- Support the funding dream to film her M-Film project by buying her songs Remix version only on MOLIAE.com that was mixed by Nichel own self!   **NEWS | Become a MEMBER today and get access to original divine "exclusive" short stories monthly. Subscribe here:  Join   Visit Official Website: MOLIAE.com Get Nichel MOLIAE song "You Know Me" at: https://MOLIAE.com/Song  |  from the forthcoming album "When Love Was Divine" --- *Support Nichel's dream to film her book the M-Film project.  Buy the songs remix: moliae.com/shop   MOLIAE Music "You Know Me" now available for download as the anticipated wait for the album. ---   Go here for the Atlantans song remix to support Nichel's production and the M-Film;  https://moliae.com/atlantans-song Atlantans - Song  | available now remix, support M-Film project ---the more rap version "We Are Atlantans" remix tba on moliae.com  -------- https://moliae.com/song    You Know Me song --------- https://moliae.com/shop Kingship song   Songs are available globally but the remix of songs only available on official MOLIAE website.   --- Stream Spotify Nichel's songs:    You Know Me https://open.spotify.com/album/4gd09XfrS5KFby3JbAjDxC?si=Jq-RRza7QrWDdY_aZ_53NQ -- Atlantans  https://open.spotify.com/album/1V2DjkvDteCb9UFwr0m6OC?si=AMNciL30SKyOz1agxoE7oA -- We Are Atlantans https://open.spotify.com/album/3ecYQyZ2INxYcTQ1yEUd9l?si=DzGSldhjRSS-ySjz_haVDA -- Kingship https://open.spotify.com/track/6PqzW6hkAkx0dHUMabj6pN?si=dc3e0b2c990f441b --- When Love Was Divine https://open.spotify.com/track/6ta4GKvwYSBfffeZ2NHhaO?si=2cf54113cc434d6e   ---- Summer Break Schedule 2025 Episodes Release Dates: June 30, 2025 July 28, 2025 August 25, 2025   Buy The Book:  "Mitsrayim: A Memoir of A Past Life In Ancient Egypt" Available on Amazon.com and Barnes-n-Noble   | Follow and Share - FOLLOW MOLIAE on Social Media & Share this! YouTube Channel - subscribe today https://www.youtube.com/moliae Instagram - Follow us, Share this: MOLIAE8 : https://www.instagram.com/moliae8 and… MOLIAEBeauty8 : https://www.instagram.com/moliaebeauty8 — Facebook https://www.facebook.com/moliae SkinCare Beauty brand for Kings and Queens https://www.faebook.com/moliaebeauty Twitter Social Page https://www.twitter.com/moliae Skincare Twitter Page: https://www.twitter.com/moliaeb  --- --- | ---- | ---- -- MOLIAE MERCH Tshirts | Support This Podcast Show - Buy Our T-shirts https://moliae.com/shop ------- ANNOUNCEMENTS | NFTS of MOLIAE | "Pyramid Mystery Temple Reunion" | Who took the HUJTA Swords? NFTs Collection "Pyramid Mystery Temple Reunion" PMTR _ MINT NOW. Visit official website:MOLIAEWorld.com MOLIAE Token is TBA get ready plans to be utilize on official cryptocurrency, NFTs website MOLIAEWorld.com Follow this MOLIAE Project on twitter.com/MOLIAEWorld & share it. PMTR NFTs collection is of 10,000 classmates that are pixel pyramids on Ethereum blockchain with symbolism and meaning with numerology and astrology as our ancient ancestors did so in Sumner and Ancient Egypt/Mitsrayim. In this collection theme purpose, additionally, the mystery to whom took their swords is uptmost concern, in particular, the 24 HUJTA swords (there are more swords assigned to each pyramid) when the call to vote (for whom will be task to solve the mystery that will launch another NFTs future collection "Aspu Legends of Lions" that will be in 3D) follow the storyline that is the bedrock of intrigue written by no other than the prestige Ms. Nichel Anderson creating the official MOLIAE World from her book "Mitsrayim: A Memoir of A Past Life in Ancient Egypt" : The PMTR NFTs collection Utilities. --- MOLIAE Comic book series episodes will be announce for the timeline before the podcast series - "The disloyalty amongst the Tribal Leaders" available on Webtoons to catch up on this saga series: Vol 1  "A Deal Was Made In The Cosmos"  ------- You LOVING this episode "free bonus" then UPGRADE to PRIME Membership available Exclusively on Substack, sign up to get more of these short stories, special guests interviews access, Director notes and more now here:  https://moliae.com/membership-levels   Share this, follow the podcast and tune in as you support the podcast and get you a brand Tshirt at MOLIAE.com and pick up a NFT at MINT.MOLIAEWORLD.com    ---- Check Out Brand of Essential Body Oils: MOLIAE Beauty Shop: https://moliaebeauty.com   GIFT BOX KITS | You want to send Ancient Egypt in a beautiful one of a kind present treasure chest. Order our gift box kits and be like a Royal ! You remember the times.. https://moliaebeauty.com/collections/gift-box-kits   -----  

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OpenAI DevDay is almost here! Per tradition, we are hosting a DevDay pregame event for everyone coming to town! Join us with demos and gossip!Also sign up for related events across San Francisco: the AI DevTools Night, the xAI open house, the Replicate art show, the DevDay Watch Party (for non-attendees), Hack Night with OpenAI at Cloudflare. For everyone else, join the Latent Space Discord for our online watch party and find fellow AI Engineers in your city.OpenAI's recent o1 release (and Reflection 70b debacle) has reignited broad interest in agentic general reasoning and tree search methods.While we have covered some of the self-taught reasoning literature on the Latent Space Paper Club, it is notable that the Eric Zelikman ended up at xAI, whereas OpenAI's hiring of Noam Brown and now Shunyu suggests more interest in tool-using chain of thought/tree of thought/generator-verifier architectures for Level 3 Agents.We were more than delighted to learn that Shunyu is a fellow Latent Space enjoyer, and invited him back (after his first appearance on our NeurIPS 2023 pod) for a look through his academic career with Harrison Chase (one year after his first LS show).ReAct: Synergizing Reasoning and Acting in Language Modelspaper linkFollowing seminal Chain of Thought papers from Wei et al and Kojima et al, and reflecting on lessons from building the WebShop human ecommerce trajectory benchmark, Shunyu's first big hit, the ReAct paper showed that using LLMs to “generate both reasoning traces and task-specific actions in an interleaved manner” achieved remarkably greater performance (less hallucination/error propagation, higher ALFWorld/WebShop benchmark success) than CoT alone. In even better news, ReAct scales fabulously with finetuning:As a member of the elite Princeton NLP group, Shunyu was also a coauthor of the Reflexion paper, which we discuss in this pod.Tree of Thoughtspaper link hereShunyu's next major improvement on the CoT literature was Tree of Thoughts:Language models are increasingly being deployed for general problem solving across a wide range of tasks, but are still confined to token-level, left-to-right decision-making processes during inference. This means they can fall short in tasks that require exploration, strategic lookahead, or where initial decisions play a pivotal role…ToT allows LMs to perform deliberate decision making by considering multiple different reasoning paths and self-evaluating choices to decide the next course of action, as well as looking ahead or backtracking when necessary to make global choices.The beauty of ToT is it doesnt require pretraining with exotic methods like backspace tokens or other MCTS architectures. You can listen to Shunyu explain ToT in his own words on our NeurIPS pod, but also the ineffable Yannic Kilcher:Other WorkWe don't have the space to summarize the rest of Shunyu's work, you can listen to our pod with him now, and recommend the CoALA paper and his initial hit webinar with Harrison, today's guest cohost:as well as Shunyu's PhD Defense Lecture:as well as Shunyu's latest lecture covering a Brief History of LLM Agents:As usual, we are live on YouTube! Show Notes* Harrison Chase* LangChain, LangSmith, LangGraph* Shunyu Yao* Alec Radford* ReAct Paper* Hotpot QA* Tau Bench* WebShop* SWE-Agent* SWE-Bench* Trees of Thought* CoALA Paper* Related Episodes* Our Thomas Scialom (Meta) episode* Shunyu on our NeurIPS 2023 Best Papers episode* Harrison on our LangChain episode* Mentions* Sierra* Voyager* Jason Wei* Tavily* SERP API* ExaTimestamps* [00:00:00] Opening Song by Suno* [00:03:00] Introductions* [00:06:16] The ReAct paper* [00:12:09] Early applications of ReAct in LangChain* [00:17:15] Discussion of the Reflection paper* [00:22:35] Tree of Thoughts paper and search algorithms in language models* [00:27:21] SWE-Agent and SWE-Bench for coding benchmarks* [00:39:21] CoALA: Cognitive Architectures for Language Agents* [00:45:24] Agent-Computer Interfaces (ACI) and tool design for agents* [00:49:24] Designing frameworks for agents vs humans* [00:53:52] UX design for AI applications and agents* [00:59:53] Data and model improvements for agent capabilities* [01:19:10] TauBench* [01:23:09] Promising areas for AITranscriptAlessio [00:00:01]: Hey, everyone, welcome to the Latent Space podcast. This is Alessio, partner and CTO of Residence at Decibel Partners, and I'm joined by my co-host Swyx, founder of Small AI.Swyx [00:00:12]: Hey, and today we have a super special episode. I actually always wanted to take like a selfie and go like, you know, POV, you're about to revolutionize the world of agents because we have two of the most awesome hiring agents in the house. So first, we're going to welcome back Harrison Chase. Welcome. Excited to be here. What's new with you recently in sort of like the 10, 20 second recap?Harrison [00:00:34]: Linkchain, Linksmith, Lingraph, pushing on all of them. Lots of cool stuff related to a lot of the stuff that we're going to talk about today, probably.Swyx [00:00:42]: Yeah.Alessio [00:00:43]: We'll mention it in there. And the Celtics won the title.Swyx [00:00:45]: And the Celtics won the title. You got that going on for you. I don't know. Is that like floorball? Handball? Baseball? Basketball.Alessio [00:00:52]: Basketball, basketball.Harrison [00:00:53]: Patriots aren't looking good though, so that's...Swyx [00:00:56]: And then Xun Yu, you've also been on the pod, but only in like a sort of oral paper presentation capacity. But welcome officially to the LinkedSpace pod.Shunyu [00:01:03]: Yeah, I've been a huge fan. So thanks for the invitation. Thanks.Swyx [00:01:07]: Well, it's an honor to have you on. You're one of like, you're maybe the first PhD thesis defense I've ever watched in like this AI world, because most people just publish single papers, but every paper of yours is a banger. So congrats.Shunyu [00:01:22]: Thanks.Swyx [00:01:24]: Yeah, maybe we'll just kick it off with, you know, what was your journey into using language models for agents? I like that your thesis advisor, I didn't catch his name, but he was like, you know... Karthik. Yeah. It's like, this guy just wanted to use language models and it was such a controversial pick at the time. Right.Shunyu [00:01:39]: The full story is that in undergrad, I did some computer vision research and that's how I got into AI. But at the time, I feel like, you know, you're just composing all the GAN or 3D perception or whatever together and it's not exciting anymore. And one day I just see this transformer paper and that's really cool. But I really got into language model only when I entered my PhD and met my advisor Karthik. So he was actually the second author of GPT-1 when he was like a visiting scientist at OpenAI. With Alec Redford?Swyx [00:02:10]: Yes.Shunyu [00:02:11]: Wow. That's what he told me. It's like back in OpenAI, they did this GPT-1 together and Ilya just said, Karthik, you should stay because we just solved the language. But apparently Karthik is not fully convinced. So he went to Princeton, started his professorship and I'm really grateful. So he accepted me as a student, even though I have no prior knowledge in NLP. And you know, we just met for the first time and he's like, you know, what do you want to do? And I'm like, you know, you have done those test game scenes. That's really cool. I wonder if we can just redo them with language models. And that's how the whole journey began. Awesome.Alessio [00:02:46]: So GPT-2 was out at the time? Yes, that was 2019.Shunyu [00:02:48]: Yeah.Alessio [00:02:49]: Way too dangerous to release. And then I guess the first work of yours that I came across was React, which was a big part of your defense. But also Harrison, when you came on The Pockets last year, you said that was one of the first papers that you saw when you were getting inspired for BlankChain. So maybe give a recap of why you thought it was cool, because you were already working in AI and machine learning. And then, yeah, you can kind of like intro the paper formally. What was that interesting to you specifically?Harrison [00:03:16]: Yeah, I mean, I think the interesting part was using these language models to interact with the outside world in some form. And I think in the paper, you mostly deal with Wikipedia. And I think there's some other data sets as well. But the outside world is the outside world. And so interacting with things that weren't present in the LLM and APIs and calling into them and thinking about the React reasoning and acting and kind of like combining those together and getting better results. I'd been playing around with LLMs, been talking with people who were playing around with LLMs. People were trying to get LLMs to call into APIs, do things, and it was always, how can they do it more reliably and better? And so this paper was basically a step in that direction. And I think really interesting and also really general as well. Like I think that's part of the appeal is just how general and simple in a good way, I think the idea was. So that it was really appealing for all those reasons.Shunyu [00:04:07]: Simple is always good. Yeah.Alessio [00:04:09]: Do you have a favorite part? Because I have one favorite part from your PhD defense, which I didn't understand when I read the paper, but you said something along the lines, React doesn't change the outside or the environment, but it does change the insight through the context, putting more things in the context. You're not actually changing any of the tools around you to work for you, but you're changing how the model thinks. And I think that was like a very profound thing when I, not that I've been using these tools for like 18 months. I'm like, I understand what you meant, but like to say that at the time you did the PhD defense was not trivial. Yeah.Shunyu [00:04:41]: Another way to put it is like thinking can be an extra tool that's useful.Alessio [00:04:47]: Makes sense. Checks out.Swyx [00:04:49]: Who would have thought? I think it's also more controversial within his world because everyone was trying to use RL for agents. And this is like the first kind of zero gradient type approach. Yeah.Shunyu [00:05:01]: I think the bigger kind of historical context is that we have this two big branches of AI. So if you think about RL, right, that's pretty much the equivalent of agent at a time. And it's like agent is equivalent to reinforcement learning and reinforcement learning is equivalent to whatever game environment they're using, right? Atari game or go or whatever. So you have like a pretty much, you know, you have a biased kind of like set of methodologies in terms of reinforcement learning and represents agents. On the other hand, I think NLP is like a historical kind of subject. It's not really into agents, right? It's more about reasoning. It's more about solving those concrete tasks. And if you look at SEL, right, like each task has its own track, right? Summarization has a track, question answering has a track. So I think really it's about rethinking agents in terms of what could be the new environments that we came to have is not just Atari games or whatever video games, but also those text games or language games. And also thinking about, could there be like a more general kind of methodology beyond just designing specific pipelines for each NLP task? That's like the bigger kind of context, I would say.Alessio [00:06:14]: Is there an inspiration spark moment that you remember or how did you come to this? We had Trida on the podcast and he mentioned he was really inspired working with like systems people to think about Flash Attention. What was your inspiration journey?Shunyu [00:06:27]: So actually before React, I spent the first two years of my PhD focusing on text-based games, or in other words, text adventure games. It's a very kind of small kind of research area and quite ad hoc, I would say. And there are like, I don't know, like 10 people working on that at the time. And have you guys heard of Zork 1, for example? So basically the idea is you have this game and you have text observations, like you see a monster, you see a dragon.Swyx [00:06:57]: You're eaten by a grue.Shunyu [00:06:58]: Yeah, you're eaten by a grue. And you have actions like kill the grue with a sword or whatever. And that's like a very typical setup of a text game. So I think one day after I've seen all the GPT-3 stuff, I just think about, you know, how can I solve the game? Like why those AI, you know, machine learning methods are pretty stupid, but we are pretty good at solving the game relatively, right? So for the context, the predominant method to solve this text game is obviously reinforcement learning. And the idea is you just try out an arrow in those games for like millions of steps and you kind of just overfit to the game. But there's no language understanding at all. And I'm like, why can't I solve the game better? And it's kind of like, because we think about the game, right? Like when we see this very complex text observation, like you see a grue and you might see a sword, you know, in the right of the room and you have to go through the wooden door to go to that room. You will think, you know, oh, I have to kill the monster and to kill that monster, I have to get the sword, I have to get the sword, I have to go, right? And this kind of thinking actually helps us kind of throw shots off the game. And it's like, why don't we also enable the text agents to think? And that's kind of the prototype of React. And I think that's actually very interesting because the prototype, I think, was around November of 2021. So that's even before like chain of thought or whatever came up. So we did a bunch of experiments in the text game, but it was not really working that well. Like those text games are just too hard. I think today it's still very hard. Like if you use GPD 4 to solve it, it's still very hard. So the change came when I started the internship in Google. And apparently Google care less about text game, they care more about what's more practical. So pretty much I just reapplied the idea, but to more practical kind of environments like Wikipedia or simpler text games like Alphard, and it just worked. It's kind of like you first have the idea and then you try to find the domains and the problems to demonstrate the idea, which is, I would say, different from most of the AI research, but it kind of worked out for me in that case.Swyx [00:09:09]: For Harrison, when you were implementing React, what were people applying React to in the early days?Harrison [00:09:14]: I think the first demo we did probably had like a calculator tool and a search tool. So like general things, we tried to make it pretty easy to write your own tools and plug in your own things. And so this is one of the things that we've seen in LangChain is people who build their own applications generally write their own tools. Like there are a few common ones. I'd say like the three common ones might be like a browser, a search tool, and a code interpreter. But then other than that-Swyx [00:09:37]: The LMS. Yep.Harrison [00:09:39]: Yeah, exactly. It matches up very nice with that. And we actually just redid like our integrations docs page, and if you go to the tool section, they like highlight those three, and then there's a bunch of like other ones. And there's such a long tail of other ones. But in practice, like when people go to production, they generally have their own tools or maybe one of those three, maybe some other ones, but like very, very few other ones. So yeah, I think the first demos was a search and a calculator one. And there's- What's the data set?Shunyu [00:10:04]: Hotpot QA.Harrison [00:10:05]: Yeah. Oh, so there's that one. And then there's like the celebrity one by the same author, I think.Swyx [00:10:09]: Olivier Wilde's boyfriend squared. Yeah. 0.23. Yeah. Right, right, right.Harrison [00:10:16]: I'm forgetting the name of the author, but there's-Swyx [00:10:17]: I was like, we're going to over-optimize for Olivier Wilde's boyfriend, and it's going to change next year or something.Harrison [00:10:21]: There's a few data sets kind of like in that vein that require multi-step kind of like reasoning and thinking. So one of the questions I actually had for you in this vein, like the React paper, there's a few things in there, or at least when I think of that, there's a few things that I think of. There's kind of like the specific prompting strategy. Then there's like this general idea of kind of like thinking and then taking an action. And then there's just even more general idea of just like taking actions in a loop. Today, like obviously language models have changed a lot. We have tool calling. The specific prompting strategy probably isn't used super heavily anymore. Would you say that like the concept of React is still used though? Or like do you think that tool calling and running tool calling in a loop, is that ReactSwyx [00:11:02]: in your mind?Shunyu [00:11:03]: I would say like it's like more implicitly used than explicitly used. To be fair, I think the contribution of React is actually twofold. So first is this idea of, you know, we should be able to use calls in a very general way. Like there should be a single kind of general method to handle interaction with various environments. I think React is the first paper to demonstrate the idea. But then I think later there are two form or whatever, and this becomes like a trivial idea. But I think at the time, that's like a pretty non-trivial thing. And I think the second contribution is this idea of what people call like inner monologue or thinking or reasoning or whatever, to be paired with tool use. I think that's still non-trivial because if you look at the default function calling or whatever, like there's no inner monologue. And in practice, that actually is important, especially if the tool that you use is pretty different from the training distribution of the language model. I think those are the two main things that are kind of inherited.Harrison [00:12:10]: On that note, I think OpenAI even recommended when you're doing tool calling, it's sometimes helpful to put a thought field in the tool, along with all the actual acquired arguments,Swyx [00:12:19]: and then have that one first.Harrison [00:12:20]: So it fills out that first, and they've shown that that's yielded better results. The reason I ask is just like this same concept is still alive, and I don't know whether to call it a React agent or not. I don't know what to call it. I think of it as React, like it's the same ideas that were in the paper, but it's obviously a very different implementation at this point in time. And so I just don't know what to call it.Shunyu [00:12:40]: I feel like people will sometimes think more in terms of different tools, right? Because if you think about a web agent versus, you know, like a function calling agent, calling a Python API, you would think of them as very different. But in some sense, the methodology is the same. It depends on how you view them, right? I think people will tend to think more in terms of the environment and the tools rather than the methodology. Or, in other words, I think the methodology is kind of trivial and simple, so people will try to focus more on the different tools. But I think it's good to have a single underlying principle of those things.Alessio [00:13:17]: How do you see the surface of React getting molded into the model? So a function calling is a good example of like, now the model does it. What about the thinking? Now most models that you use kind of do chain of thought on their own, they kind of produce steps. Do you think that more and more of this logic will be in the model? Or do you think the context window will still be the main driver of reasoning and thinking?Shunyu [00:13:39]: I think it's already default, right? You do some chain of thought and you do some tool call, the cost of adding the chain of thought is kind of relatively low compared to other things. So it's not hurting to do that. And I think it's already kind of common practice, I would say.Swyx [00:13:56]: This is a good place to bring in either Tree of Thought or Reflection, your pick.Shunyu [00:14:01]: Maybe Reflection, to respect the time order, I would say.Swyx [00:14:05]: Any backstory as well, like the people involved with NOAA and the Princeton group. We talked about this offline, but people don't understand how these research pieces come together and this ideation.Shunyu [00:14:15]: I think Reflection is mostly NOAA's work, I'm more like advising kind of role. The story is, I don't remember the time, but one day we just see this pre-print that's like Reflection and Autonomous Agent with memory or whatever. And it's kind of like an extension to React, which uses this self-reflection. I'm like, oh, somehow you've become very popular. And NOAA reached out to me, it's like, do you want to collaborate on this and make this from an archive pre-print to something more solid, like a conference submission? I'm like, sure. We started collaborating and we remain good friends today. And I think another interesting backstory is NOAA was contacted by OpenAI at the time. It's like, this is pretty cool, do you want to just work at OpenAI? And I think Sierra also reached out at the same time. It's like, this is pretty cool, do you want to work at Sierra? And I think NOAA chose Sierra, but it's pretty cool because he was still like a second year undergrad and he's a very smart kid.Swyx [00:15:16]: Based on one paper. Oh my god.Shunyu [00:15:19]: He's done some other research based on programming language or chemistry or whatever, but I think that's the paper that got the attention of OpenAI and Sierra.Swyx [00:15:28]: For those who haven't gone too deep on it, the way that you present the inside of React, can you do that also for reflection? Yeah.Shunyu [00:15:35]: I think one way to think of reflection is that the traditional idea of reinforcement learning is you have a scalar reward and then you somehow back-propagate the signal of the scalar reward to the rest of your neural network through whatever algorithm, like policy grading or A2C or whatever. And if you think about the real life, most of the reward signal is not scalar. It's like your boss told you, you should have done a better job in this, but you could jump on that or whatever. It's not like a scalar reward, like 29 or something. I think in general, humans deal more with long scalar reward, or you can say language feedback. And the way that they deal with language feedback also has this back-propagation process, right? Because you start from this, you did a good job on job B, and then you reflect what could have been done differently to change to make it better. And you kind of change your prompt, right? Basically, you change your prompt on how to do job A and how to do job B, and then you do the whole thing again. So it's really like a pipeline of language where in self-graded descent, you have something like text reasoning to replace those gradient descent algorithms. I think that's one way to think of reflection.Harrison [00:16:47]: One question I have about reflection is how general do you think the algorithm there is? And so for context, I think at LangChain and at other places as well, we found it pretty easy to implement React in a standard way. You plug in any tools and it kind of works off the shelf, can get it up and running. I don't think we have an off-the-shelf kind of implementation of reflection and kind of the general sense. I think the concepts, absolutely, we see used in different kind of specific cognitive architectures, but I don't think we have one that comes off the shelf. I don't think any of the other frameworks have one that comes off the shelf. And I'm curious whether that's because it's not general enough or it's complex as well, because it also requires running it more times.Swyx [00:17:28]: Maybe that's not feasible.Harrison [00:17:30]: I'm curious how you think about the generality, complexity. Should we have one that comes off the shelf?Shunyu [00:17:36]: I think the algorithm is general in the sense that it's just as general as other algorithms, if you think about policy grading or whatever, but it's not applicable to all tasks, just like other algorithms. So you can argue PPO is also general, but it works better for those set of tasks, but not on those set of tasks. I think it's the same situation for reflection. And I think a key bottleneck is the evaluator, right? Basically, you need to have a good sense of the signal. So for example, if you are trying to do a very hard reasoning task, say mathematics, for example, and you don't have any tools, you're operating in this chain of thought setup, then reflection will be pretty hard because in order to reflect upon your thoughts, you have to have a very good evaluator to judge whether your thought is good or not. But that might be as hard as solving the problem itself or even harder. The principle of self-reflection is probably more applicable if you have a good evaluator, for example, in the case of coding. If you have those arrows, then you can just reflect on that and how to solve the bug andSwyx [00:18:37]: stuff.Shunyu [00:18:38]: So I think another criteria is that it depends on the application, right? If you have this latency or whatever need for an actual application with an end-user, the end-user wouldn't let you do two hours of tree-of-thought or reflection, right? You need something as soon as possible. So in that case, maybe this is better to be used as a training time technique, right? You do those reflection or tree-of-thought or whatever, you get a lot of data, and then you try to use the data to train your model better. And then in test time, you still use something as simple as React, but that's already improved.Alessio [00:19:11]: And if you think of the Voyager paper as a way to store skills and then reuse them, how would you compare this reflective memory and at what point it's just ragging on the memory versus you want to start to fine-tune some of them or what's the next step once you get a very long reflective corpus? Yeah.Shunyu [00:19:30]: So I think there are two questions here. The first question is, what type of information or memory are you considering, right? Is it like semantic memory that stores knowledge about the word, or is it the episodic memory that stores trajectories or behaviors, or is it more of a procedural memory like in Voyager's case, like skills or code snippets that you can use to do actions, right?Swyx [00:19:54]: That's one dimension.Shunyu [00:19:55]: And the second dimension is obviously how you use the memory, either retrieving from it, using it in the context, or fine-tuning it. I think the Cognitive Architecture for Language Agents paper has a good categorization of all the different combinations. And of course, which way you use depends on the concrete application and the concrete need and the concrete task. But I think in general, it's good to think of those systematic dimensions and all the possible options there.Swyx [00:20:25]: Harrison also has in LangMEM, I think you did a presentation in my meetup, and I think you've done it at a couple other venues as well. User state, semantic memory, and append-only state, I think kind of maps to what you just said.Shunyu [00:20:38]: What is LangMEM? Can I give it like a quick...Harrison [00:20:40]: One of the modules of LangChain for a long time has been something around memory. And I think we're still obviously figuring out what that means, as is everyone kind of in the space. But one of the experiments that we did, and one of the proof of concepts that we did was, technically what it was is you would basically create threads, you'd push messages to those threads in the background, we process the data in a few ways. One, we put it into some semantic store, that's the semantic memory. And then two, we do some extraction and reasoning over the memories to extract. And we let the user define this, but extract key facts or anything that's of interest to the user. Those aren't exactly trajectories, they're maybe more closer to the procedural memory. Is that how you'd think about it or classify it?Shunyu [00:21:22]: Is it like about knowledge about the word, or is it more like how to do something?Swyx [00:21:27]: It's reflections, basically.Harrison [00:21:28]: So in generative worlds.Shunyu [00:21:30]: Generative agents.Swyx [00:21:31]: The Smallville. Yeah, the Smallville one.Harrison [00:21:33]: So the way that they had their memory there was they had the sequence of events, and that's kind of like the raw events that happened. But then every N events, they'd run some synthesis over those events for the LLM to insert its own memory, basically. It's that type of memory.Swyx [00:21:49]: I don't know how that would be classified.Shunyu [00:21:50]: I think of that as more of the semantic memory, but to be fair, I think it's just one way to think of that. But whether it's semantic memory or procedural memory or whatever memory, that's like an abstraction layer. But in terms of implementation, you can choose whatever implementation for whatever memory. So they're totally kind of orthogonal. I think it's more of a good way to think of the things, because from the history of cognitive science and cognitive architecture and how people study even neuroscience, that's the way people think of how the human brain organizes memory. And I think it's more useful as a way to think of things. But it's not like for semantic memory, you have to do this kind of way to retrieve or fine-tune, and for procedural memory, you have to do that. I think those are totally orthogonal kind of dimensions.Harrison [00:22:34]: How much background do you have in cognitive sciences, and how much do you model some of your thoughts on?Shunyu [00:22:40]: That's a great question, actually. I think one of the undergrad influences for my follow-up research is I was doing an internship at MIT's Computational Cognitive Science Lab with Josh Tannenbaum, and he's a very famous cognitive scientist. And I think a lot of his ideas still influence me today, like thinking of things in computational terms and getting interested in language and a lot of stuff, or even developing psychology kind of stuff. So I think it still influences me today.Swyx [00:23:14]: As a developer that tried out LangMEM, the way I view it is just it's a materialized view of a stream of logs. And if anything, that's just useful for context compression. I don't have to use the full context to run it over everything. But also it's kind of debuggable. If it's wrong, I can show it to the user, the user can manually fix it, and I can carry on. That's a really good analogy. I like that. I'm going to steal that. Sure. Please, please. You know I'm bullish on memory databases. I guess, Tree of Thoughts? Yeah, Tree of Thoughts.Shunyu [00:23:39]: I feel like I'm relieving the defense in like a podcast format. Yeah, no.Alessio [00:23:45]: I mean, you had a banger. Well, this is the one where you're already successful and we just highlight the glory. It was really good. You mentioned that since thinking is kind of like taking an action, you can use action searching algorithms to think of thinking. So just like you will use Tree Search to find the next thing. And the idea behind Tree of Thought is that you generate all these possible outcomes and then find the best tree to get to the end. Maybe back to the latency question, you can't really do that if you have to respond in real time. So what are maybe some of the most helpful use cases for things like this? Where have you seen people adopt it where the high latency is actually worth the wait?Shunyu [00:24:21]: For things that you don't care about latency, obviously. For example, if you're trying to do math, if you're just trying to come up with a proof. But I feel like one type of task is more about searching for a solution. You can try a hundred times, but if you find one solution, that's good. For example, if you're finding a math proof or if you're finding a good code to solve a problem or whatever, I think another type of task is more like reacting. For example, if you're doing customer service, you're like a web agent booking a ticket for an end user. Those are more reactive kind of tasks, or more real-time tasks. You have to do things fast. They might be easy, but you have to do it reliably. And you care more about can you solve 99% of the time out of a hundred. But for the type of search type of tasks, then you care more about can I find one solution out of a hundred. So it's kind of symmetric and different.Alessio [00:25:11]: Do you have any data or intuition from your user base? What's the split of these type of use cases? How many people are doing more reactive things and how many people are experimenting with deep, long search?Harrison [00:25:23]: I would say React's probably the most popular. I think there's aspects of reflection that get used. Tree of thought, probably the least so. There's a great tweet from Jason Wei, I think you're now a colleague, and he was talking about prompting strategies and how he thinks about them. And I think the four things that he had was, one, how easy is it to implement? How much compute does it take? How many tasks does it solve? And how much does it improve on those tasks? And I'd add a fifth, which is how likely is it to be relevant when the next generation of models come out? And I think if you look at those axes and then you look at React, reflection, tree of thought, it tracks that the ones that score better are used more. React is pretty easy to implement. Tree of thought's pretty hard to implement. The amount of compute, yeah, a lot more for tree of thought. The tasks and how much it improves, I don't have amazing visibility there. But I think if we're comparing React versus tree of thought, React just dominates the first two axes so much that my question around that was going to be like, how do you think about these prompting strategies, cognitive architectures, whatever you want to call them? When you're thinking of them, what are the axes that you're judging them on in your head when you're thinking whether it's a good one or a less good one?Swyx [00:26:38]: Right.Shunyu [00:26:39]: Right. I think there is a difference between a prompting method versus research, in the sense that for research, you don't really even care about does it actually work on practical tasks or does it help? Whatever. I think it's more about the idea or the principle, right? What is the direction that you're unblocking and whatever. And I think for an actual prompting method to solve a concrete problem, I would say simplicity is very important because the simpler it is, the less decision you have to make about it. And it's easier to design. It's easier to propagate. And it's easier to do stuff. So always try to be as simple as possible. And I think latency obviously is important. If you can do things fast and you don't want to do things slow. And I think in terms of the actual prompting method to use for a particular problem, I think we should all be in the minimalist kind of camp, right? You should try the minimum thing and see if it works. And if it doesn't work and there's absolute reason to add something, then you add something, right? If there's absolute reason that you need some tool, then you should add the tool thing. If there's absolute reason to add reflection or whatever, you should add that. Otherwise, if a chain of thought can already solve something, then you don't even need to use any of that.Harrison [00:27:57]: Yeah. Or if it's just better prompting can solve it. Like, you know, you could add a reflection step or you could make your instructions a little bit clearer.Swyx [00:28:03]: And it's a lot easier to do that.Shunyu [00:28:04]: I think another interesting thing is like, I personally have never done those kind of like weird tricks. I think all the prompts that I write are kind of like just talking to a human, right? It's like, I don't know. I never say something like, your grandma is dying and you have to solve it. I mean, those are cool, but I feel like we should all try to solve things in a very intuitive way. Just like talking to your co-worker. That should work 99% of the time. That's my personal take.Swyx [00:28:29]: The problem with how language models, at least in the GPC 3 era, was that they over-optimized to some sets of tokens in sequence. So like reading the Kojima et al. paper that was listing step-by-step, like he tried a bunch of them and they had wildly different results. It should not be the case, but it is the case. And hopefully we're getting better there.Shunyu [00:28:51]: Yeah. I think it's also like a timing thing in the sense that if you think about this whole line of language model, right? Like at the time it was just like a text generator. We don't have any idea how it's going to be used, right? And obviously at the time you will find all kinds of weird issues because it's not trained to do any of that, right? But then I think we have this loop where once we realize chain of thought is important or agent is important or tool using is important, what we see is today's language models are heavily optimized towards those things. So I think in some sense they become more reliable and robust over those use cases. And you don't need to do as much prompt engineering tricks anymore to solve those things. I feel like in some sense, I feel like prompt engineering even is like a slightly negative word at the time because it refers to all those kind of weird tricks that you have to apply. But I think we don't have to do that anymore. Like given today's progress, you should just be able to talk to like a coworker. And if you're clear and concrete and being reasonable, then it should do reasonable things for you.Swyx [00:29:51]: Yeah. The way I put this is you should not be a prompt engineer because it is the goal of the big labs to put you out of a job.Shunyu [00:29:58]: You should just be a good communicator. Like if you're a good communicator to humans, you should be a good communicator to languageSwyx [00:30:02]: models.Harrison [00:30:03]: That's the key though, because oftentimes people aren't good communicators to these language models and that is a very important skill and that's still messing around with the prompt. And so it depends what you're talking about when you're saying prompt engineer.Shunyu [00:30:14]: But do you think it's like very correlated with like, are they like a good communicator to humans? You know, it's like.Harrison [00:30:20]: It may be, but I also think I would say on average, people are probably worse at communicating with language models than to humans right now, at least, because I think we're still figuring out how to do it. You kind of expect it to be magical and there's probably some correlation, but I'd say there's also just like, people are worse at it right now than talking to humans.Shunyu [00:30:36]: We should make it like a, you know, like an elementary school class or whatever, how toSwyx [00:30:41]: talk to language models. Yeah. I don't know. Very pro that. Yeah. Before we leave the topic of trees and searching, not specific about QSTAR, but there's a lot of questions about MCTS and this combination of tree search and language models. And I just had to get in a question there about how seriously should people take this?Shunyu [00:30:59]: Again, I think it depends on the tasks, right? So MCTS was magical for Go, but it's probably not as magical for robotics, right? So I think right now the problem is not even that we don't have good methodologies, it's more about we don't have good tasks. It's also very interesting, right? Because if you look at my citation, it's like, obviously the most cited are React, Refraction and Tree of Thought. Those are methodologies. But I think like equally important, if not more important line of my work is like benchmarks and environments, right? Like WebShop or SuiteVenture or whatever. And I think in general, what people do in academia that I think is not good is they choose a very simple task, like Alford, and then they apply overly complex methods to show they improve 2%. I think you should probably match the level of complexity of your task and your method. I feel like where tasks are kind of far behind the method in some sense, right? Because we have some good test-time approaches, like whatever, React or Refraction or Tree of Thought, or like there are many, many more complicated test-time methods afterwards. But on the benchmark side, we have made a lot of good progress this year, last year. But I think we still need more progress towards that, like better coding benchmark, better web agent benchmark, better agent benchmark, not even for web or code. I think in general, we need to catch up with tasks.Harrison [00:32:27]: What are the biggest reasons in your mind why it lags behind?Shunyu [00:32:31]: I think incentive is one big reason. Like if you see, you know, all the master paper are cited like a hundred times more than the task paper. And also making a good benchmark is actually quite hard. It's almost like a different set of skills in some sense, right? I feel like if you want to build a good benchmark, you need to be like a good kind of product manager kind of mindset, right? You need to think about why people should use your benchmark, why it's challenging, why it's useful. If you think about like a PhD going into like a school, right? The prior skill that expected to have is more about, you know, can they code this method and can they just run experiments and can solve that? I think building a benchmark is not the typical prior skill that we have, but I think things are getting better. I think more and more people are starting to build benchmarks and people are saying that it's like a way to get more impact in some sense, right? Because like if you have a really good benchmark, a lot of people are going to use it. But if you have a super complicated test time method, like it's very hard for people to use it.Harrison [00:33:35]: Are evaluation metrics also part of the reason? Like for some of these tasks that we might want to ask these agents or language models to do, is it hard to evaluate them? And so it's hard to get an automated benchmark. Obviously with SweetBench you can, and with coding, it's easier, but.Shunyu [00:33:50]: I think that's part of the skillset thing that I mentioned, because I feel like it's like a product manager because there are many dimensions and you need to strike a balance and it's really hard, right? If you want to make sense, very easy to autogradable, like automatically gradable, like either to grade or either to evaluate, then you might lose some of the realness or practicality. Or like it might be practical, but it might not be as scalable, right? For example, if you think about text game, human have pre-annotated all the rewards and all the language are real. So it's pretty good on autogradable dimension and the practical dimension. If you think about, you know, practical, like actual English being practical, but it's not scalable, right? It takes like a year for experts to build that game. So it's not really that scalable. And I think part of the reason that SweetBench is so popular now is it kind of hits the balance between these three dimensions, right? Easy to evaluate and being actually practical and being scalable. Like if I were to criticize upon some of my prior work, I think webshop, like it's my initial attempt to get into benchmark world and I'm trying to do a good job striking the balance. But obviously we make it all gradable and it's really scalable, but then I think the practicality is not as high as actually just using GitHub issues, right? Because you're just creating those like synthetic tasks.Harrison [00:35:13]: Are there other areas besides coding that jump to mind as being really good for being autogradable?Shunyu [00:35:20]: Maybe mathematics.Swyx [00:35:21]: Classic. Yeah. Do you have thoughts on alpha proof, the new DeepMind paper? I think it's pretty cool.Shunyu [00:35:29]: I think it's more of a, you know, it's more of like a confidence boost or like sometimes, you know, the work is not even about, you know, the technical details or the methodology that it chooses or the concrete results. I think it's more about a signal, right?Swyx [00:35:47]: Yeah. Existence proof. Yeah.Shunyu [00:35:50]: Yeah. It can be done. This direction is exciting. It kind of encourages people to work more towards that direction. I think it's more like a boost of confidence, I would say.Swyx [00:35:59]: Yeah. So we're going to focus more on agents now and, you know, all of us have a special interest in coding agents. I would consider Devin to be the sort of biggest launch of the year as far as AI startups go. And you guys in the Princeton group worked on Suiagents alongside of Suibench. Tell us the story about Suiagent. Sure.Shunyu [00:36:21]: I think it's kind of like a triology, it's actually a series of three works now. So actually the first work is called Intercode, but it's not as famous, I know. And the second work is called Suibench and the third work is called Suiagent. And I'm just really confused why nobody is working on coding. You know, it's like a year ago, but I mean, not everybody's working on coding, obviously, but a year ago, like literally nobody was working on coding. I was really confused. And the people that were working on coding are, you know, trying to solve human evil in like a sick-to-sick way. There's no agent, there's no chain of thought, there's no anything, they're just, you know, fine tuning the model and improve some points and whatever, like, I was really confused because obviously coding is the best application for agents because it's autogradable, it's super important, you can make everything like API or code action, right? So I was confused and I collaborated with some of the students in Princeton and we have this work called Intercode and the idea is, first, if you care about coding, then you should solve coding in an interactive way, meaning more like a Jupyter Notebook kind of way than just writing a program and seeing if it fails or succeeds and stop, right? You should solve it in an interactive way because that's exactly how humans solve it, right? You don't have to, you know, write a program like next token, next token, next token and stop and never do any edits and you cannot really use any terminal or whatever tool. It doesn't make sense, right? And that's the way people are solving coding at the time, basically like sampling a program from a language model without chain of thought, without tool call, without refactoring, without anything. So the first point is we should solve coding in a very interactive way and that's a very general principle that applies for various coding benchmarks. And also, I think you can make a lot of the agent task kind of like interactive coding. If you have Python and you can call any package, then you can literally also browse internet or do whatever you want, like control a robot or whatever. So that seems to be a very general paradigm. But obviously I think a bottleneck is at the time we're still doing, you know, very simple tasks like human eval or whatever coding benchmark people proposed. They were super hard in 2021, like 20%, but they're like 95% already in 2023. So obviously the next step is we need a better benchmark. And Carlos and John, which are the first authors of Swaybench, I think they come up with this great idea that we should just script GitHub and solve whatever human engineers are solving. And I think it's actually pretty easy to come up with the idea. And I think in the first week, they already made a lot of progress. They script the GitHub and they make all the same, but then there's a lot of painful info work and whatever, you know. I think the idea is super easy, but the engineering is super hard. And I feel like that's a very typical signal of a good work in the AI era now.Swyx [00:39:17]: I think also, I think the filtering was challenging, because if you look at open source PRs, a lot of them are just like, you know, fixing typos. I think it's challenging.Shunyu [00:39:27]: And to be honest, we didn't do a perfect job at the time. So if you look at the recent blog post with OpenAI, we improved the filtering so that it's more solvable.Swyx [00:39:36]: I think OpenAI was just like, look, this is a thing now. We have to fix this. These students just rushed it.Shunyu [00:39:45]: It's a good convergence of interests for me.Alessio [00:39:48]: Was that tied to you joining OpenAI? Or was that just unrelated?Shunyu [00:39:52]: It's a coincidence for me, but it's a good coincidence.Swyx [00:39:55]: There is a history of anytime a big lab adopts a benchmark, they fix it. Otherwise, it's a broken benchmark.Shunyu [00:40:03]: So naturally, once we propose swimmage, the next step is to solve it. But I think the typical way you solve something now is you collect some training samples, or you design some complicated agent method, and then you try to solve it. Either super complicated prompt, or you build a better model with more training data. But I think at the time, we realized that even before those things, there's a fundamental problem with the interface or the tool that you're supposed to use. Because that's like an ignored problem in some sense. What your tool is, or how that matters for your task. So what we found concretely is that if you just use the text terminal off the shelf as a tool for those agents, there's a lot of problems. For example, if you edit something, there's no feedback. So you don't know whether your edit is good or not. That makes the agent very confused and makes a lot of mistakes. There are a lot of small problems, you would say. Well, you can try to do prompt engineering and improve that, but it turns out to be actually very hard. We realized that the interface design is actually a very omitted part of agent design. So we did this switch agent work. And the key idea is just, even before you talk about what the agent is, you should talk about what the environment is. You should make sure that the environment is actually friendly to whatever agent you're trying to apply. That's the same idea for humans. Text terminal is good for some tasks, like git, pool, or whatever. But it's not good if you want to look at browser and whatever. Also, browser is a good tool for some tasks, but it's not a good tool for other tasks. We need to talk about how design interface, in some sense, where we should treat agents as our customers. It's like when we treat humans as a customer, we design human computer interfaces. We design those beautiful desktops or browsers or whatever, so that it's very intuitive and easy for humans to use. And this whole great subject of HCI is all about that. I think now the research idea of switch agent is just, we should treat agents as our customers. And we should do like, you know… AICI.Swyx [00:42:16]: AICI, exactly.Harrison [00:42:18]: So what are the tools that a suite agent should have, or a coding agent in general should have?Shunyu [00:42:24]: For suite agent, it's like a modified text terminal, which kind of adapts to a lot of the patterns of language models to make it easier for language models to use. For example, now for edit, instead of having no feedback, it will actually have a feedback of, you know, actually here you introduced like a syntax error, and you should probably want to fix that, and there's an ended error there. And that makes it super easy for the model to actually do that. And there's other small things, like how exactly you write arguments, right? Like, do you want to write like a multi-line edit, or do you want to write a single line edit? I think it's more interesting to think about the way of the development process of an ACI rather than the actual ACI for like a concrete application. Because I think the general paradigm is very similar to HCI and psychology, right? Basically, for how people develop HCIs, they do behavior experiments on humans, right? I do every test, right? Like, which interface is actually better? And I do those behavior experiments, kind of like psychology experiments to humans, and I change things. And I think what's really interesting for me, for this three-agent paper, is we can probably do the same thing for agents, right? We can do every test for those agents and do behavior tests. And through the process, we not only invent better interfaces for those agents, that's the practical value, but we also better understand agents. Just like when we do those A-B tests, we do those HCI, we better understand humans. Doing those ACI experiments, we actually better understand agents. And that's pretty cool.Harrison [00:43:51]: Besides that A-B testing, what are other processes that people can use to think about this in a good way?Swyx [00:43:57]: That's a great question.Shunyu [00:43:58]: And I think three-agent is an initial work. And what we do is the kind of the naive approach, right? You just try some interface, and you see what's going wrong, and then you try to fix that. We do this kind of iterative fixing. But I think what's really interesting is there'll be a lot of future directions that's very promising if we can apply some of the HCI principles more systematically into the interface design. I think that would be a very cool interdisciplinary research opportunity.Harrison [00:44:26]: You talked a lot about agent-computer interfaces and interactions. What about human-to-agent UX patterns? Curious for any thoughts there that you might have.Swyx [00:44:38]: That's a great question.Shunyu [00:44:39]: And in some sense, I feel like prompt engineering is about human-to-agent interface. But I think there can be a lot of interesting research done about... So prompting is about how humans can better communicate with the agent. But I think there could be interesting research on how agents can better communicate with humans, right? When to ask questions, how to ask questions, what's the frequency of asking questions. And I think those kinds of stuff could be very cool research.Harrison [00:45:07]: Yeah, I think some of the most interesting stuff that I saw here was also related to coding with Devin from Cognition. And they had the three or four different panels where you had the chat, the browser, the terminal, and I guess the code editor as well.Swyx [00:45:19]: There's more now.Harrison [00:45:19]: There's more. Okay, I'm not up to date. Yeah, I think they also did a good job on ACI.Swyx [00:45:25]: I think that's the main learning I have from Devin. They cracked that. Actually, there was no foundational planning breakthrough. The planner is actually pretty simple, but ACI that they broke through on.Shunyu [00:45:35]: I think making the tool good and reliable is probably like 90% of the whole agent. Once the tool is actually good, then the agent design can be much, much simpler. On the other hand, if the tool is bad, then no matter how much you put into the agent design, planning or search or whatever, it's still going to be trash.Harrison [00:45:53]: Yeah, I'd argue the same. Same with like context and instructions. Like, yeah, go hand in hand.Alessio [00:46:00]: On the tool, how do you think about the tension of like, for both of you, I mean, you're building a library, so even more for you. The tension between making now a language or a library that is like easy for the agent to grasp and write versus one that is easy for like the human to grasp and write. Because, you know, the trend is like more and more code gets written by the agent. So why wouldn't you optimize the framework to be as easy as possible for the model versus for the person?Swyx [00:46:24]: I think it's possible to design an interfaceShunyu [00:46:25]: that's both friendly to humans and agents. But what do you think?Harrison [00:46:29]: We haven't thought about that from the perspective, like we're not trying to design LangChain or LangGraph to be friendly. But I mean, I think to be friendly for agents to write.Swyx [00:46:42]: But I mean, I think we see this with like,Harrison [00:46:43]: I saw some paper that used TypeScript notation instead of JSON notation for tool calling and it got a lot better performance. So it's definitely a thing. I haven't really heard of anyone designing like a syntax or a language explicitly for agents, but there's clearly syntaxes that are better.Shunyu [00:46:59]: I think function calling is a good example where it's like a good interface for both human programmers and for agents, right? Like for developers, it's actually a very friendly interface because it's very concrete and you don't have to do prompt engineering anymore. You can be very systematic. And for models, it's also pretty good, right? Like it can use all the existing coding content. So I think we need more of those kinds of designs.Swyx [00:47:21]: I will mostly agree and I'll slightly disagree in terms of this, which is like, whether designing for humans also overlaps with designing for AI. So Malte Ubo, who's the CTO of Vercel, who is creating basically JavaScript's competitor to LangChain, they're observing that basically, like if the API is easy to understand for humans, it's actually much easier to understand for LLMs, for example, because they're not overloaded functions. They don't behave differently under different contexts. They do one thing and they always work the same way. It's easy for humans, it's easy for LLMs. And like that makes a lot of sense. And obviously adding types is another one. Like type annotations only help give extra context, which is really great. So that's the agreement. And then a disagreement is that when I use structured output to do my chain of thought, I have found that I change my field names to hint to the LLM of what the field is supposed to do. So instead of saying topics, I'll say candidate topics. And that gives me a better result because the LLM was like, ah, this is just a draft thing I can use for chain of thought. And instead of like summaries, I'll say topic summaries to link the previous field to the current field. So like little stuff like that, I find myself optimizing for the LLM where I, as a human, would never do that. Interesting.Shunyu [00:48:32]: It's kind of like the way you optimize the prompt, it might be different for humans and for machines. You can have a common ground that's both clear for humans and agents, but to improve the human performance versus improving the agent performance, they might move to different directions.Swyx [00:48:48]: Might move different directions. There's a lot more use of metadata as well, like descriptions, comments, code comments, annotations and stuff like that. Yeah.Harrison [00:48:56]: I would argue that's just you communicatingSwyx [00:48:58]: to the agent what it should do.Harrison [00:49:00]: And maybe you need to communicate a little bit more than to humans because models aren't quite good enough yet.Swyx [00:49:06]: But like, I don't think that's crazy.Harrison [00:49:07]: I don't think that's like- It's not crazy.Swyx [00:49:09]: I will bring this in because it just happened to me yesterday. I was at the cursor office. They held their first user meetup and I was telling them about the LLM OS concept and why basically every interface, every tool was being redesigned for AIs to use rather than humans. And they're like, why? Like, can we just use Bing and Google for LLM search? Why must I use Exa? Or what's the other one that you guys work with?Harrison [00:49:32]: Tavilli.Swyx [00:49:33]: Tavilli. Web Search API dedicated for LLMs. What's the difference?Shunyu [00:49:36]: Exactly. To Bing API.Swyx [00:49:38]: Exactly.Harrison [00:49:38]: There weren't great APIs for search. Like the best one, like the one that we used initially in LangChain was SERP API, which is like maybe illegal. I'm not sure.Swyx [00:49:49]: And like, you know,Harrison [00:49:52]: and now there are like venture-backed companies.Swyx [00:49:53]: Shout out to DuckDuckGo, which is free.Harrison [00:49:55]: Yes, yes.Swyx [00:49:56]: Yeah.Harrison [00:49:56]: I do think there are some differences though. I think you want, like, I think generally these APIs try to return small amounts of text information, clear legible field. It's not a massive JSON blob. And I think that matters. I think like when you talk about designing tools, it's not only the, it's the interface in the entirety, not only the inputs, but also the outputs that really matter. And so I think they try to make the outputs.Shunyu [00:50:18]: They're doing ACI.Swyx [00:50:19]: Yeah, yeah, absolutely.Harrison [00:50:20]: Really?Swyx [00:50:21]: Like there's a whole set of industries that are just being redone for ACI. It's weird. And so my simple answer to them was like the error messages. When you give error messages, they should be basically prompts for the LLM to take and then self-correct. Then your error messages get more verbose, actually, than you normally would with a human. Stuff like that. Like a little, honestly, it's not that big. Again, like, is this worth a venture-backed industry? Unless you can tell us. But like, I think Code Interpreter, I think is a new thing. I hope so.Alessio [00:50:52]: We invested in it to be so.Shunyu [00:50:53]: I think that's a very interesting point. You're trying to optimize to the extreme, then obviously they're going to be different. For example, the error—Swyx [00:51:00]: Because we take it very seriously. Right.Shunyu [00:51:01]: The error for like language model, the longer the better. But for humans, that will make them very nervous and very tired, right? But I guess the point is more like, maybe we should try to find a co-optimized common ground as much as possible. And then if we have divergence, then we should try to diverge. But it's more philosophical now.Alessio [00:51:19]: But I think like part of it is like how you use it. So Google invented the PageRank because ideally you only click on one link, you know, like the top three should have the answer. But with models, it's like, well, you can get 20. So those searches are more like semantic grouping in a way. It's like for this query, I'll return you like 20, 30 things that are kind of good, you know? So it's less about ranking and it's more about grouping.Shunyu [00:51:42]: Another fundamental thing about HCI is the difference between human and machine's kind of memory limit, right? So I think what's really interesting about this concept HCI versus HCI is interfaces that's optimized for them. You can kind of understand some of the fundamental characteristics, differences of humans and machines, right? Why, you know, if you look at find or whatever terminal command, you know, you can only look at one thing at a time or that's because we have a very small working memory. You can only deal with one thing at a time. You can only look at one paragraph of text at the same time. So the interface for us is by design, you know, a small piece of information, but more temporal steps. But for machines, that should be the opposite, right? You should just give them a hundred different results and they should just decide in context what's the most relevant stuff and trade off the context for temporal steps. That's actually also better for language models because like the cost is smaller or whatever. So it's interesting to connect those interfaces to the fundamental kind of differences of those.Harrison [00:52:43]: When you said earlier, you know, we should try to design these to maybe be similar as possible and diverge if we need to.Swyx [00:52:49]: I actually don't have a problem with them diverging nowHarrison [00:52:51]: and seeing venture-backed startups emerging now because we are different from machines code AI. And it's just so early on, like they may still look kind of similar and they may still be small differences, but it's still just so early. And I think we'll only discover more ways that they differ. And so I'm totally fine with them kind of like diverging earlySwyx [00:53:10]: and optimizing for the...Harrison [00:53:11]: I agree. I think it's more like, you know,Shunyu [00:53:14]: we should obviously try to optimize human interface just for humans. We're already doing that for 50 years. We should optimize agent interface just for agents, but we might also try to co-optimize both and see how far we can get. There's enough people to try all three directions. Yeah.Swyx [00:53:31]: There's a thesis I sometimes push, which is the sour lesson as opposed to the bitter lesson, which we're always inspired by human development, but actually AI develops its own path.Shunyu [00:53:40]: Right. We need to understand better, you know, what are the fundamental differences between those creatures.Swyx [00:53:45]: It's funny when really early on this pod, you were like, how much grounding do you have in cognitive development and human brain stuff? And I'm like

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**No Spoilers For the First Half**  Jess Hong plays Jin Cheng in Netflix's sci-fi thriller 3 Body Problem, adapted from Chinese novelist Cixin Liu's books, and produced by Benioff, Weiss (Game of Thrones) and Woo (True Blood).  Jin is a genius scientist trying to save mankind from a consequence that started over five decades earlier.  Jess called in from New Zealand, and she couldn't have been nicer or more generous with her time. Her performance in the show left both me and my co-host Zoe wanting more of Jin and her friends!  My co-host this week is Zoe.  Zoe hails from Manchester, England and is the owner of Juniper By the Sea online bookshop (@juniperseabooks on Instagram, website coming soon). Huge thanks to Jess for coming on with us less than a day after returning home from London!  You can follow her @jessthehong on Instagram, and of course, watch 3 Body Problem on Netflix!   Our Theme: “Super Happy J-Pop Fun-Time” by Prismic Studios was arranged and performed by All Arms Around  Outro:  The Opening Credits (and Opening Song) of 3 Body Problem | Netflix  @stillwatchingnetflix   Our logo and cover art were designed by Justin Chuan @w.a.h.w (We Are Half The World). As I always mention, you can write to us at: infatuasianpodcast@gmail.com, and please follow us on Instagram and Facebook @infatuasianpodcast    Please follow us wherever you get your podcasts.  We would love your ratings and reviews over at Apple and Spotify! #Netflix #3bodyproblem #asian #asianamerican #infatuasian #iinfatuasianpodcast #aapi #veryasian #asianamericanpodcaster #representationmatters

McDonald's might be coming out with an anime... A couple of anime getting delayed, and a lot more news in this week's episode.Join us as Aray & Aunn go over this weeks news!Anime+ is a new pod that embodies everything anime and anime related.We're available anywhere that you listen to your podcasts:Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcast, Stitcher, and so much more!Youtube: The East Coast Brown CastTwitter: @Anime_Plus_PodIG/Tiktok: @animepluspodcastDiscord: https://discord.gg/YZQUZQAKWaWebsite: https://animeplusnetwork.comhttps://dropclic.com/Discount code: animeplusArticles used in this episode:Alya Sometimes Hides Her Feelings in Russian Anime Delayed to July 2024 -https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2024-02-19/alya-sometimes-hides-her-feelings-in-russian-anime-delayed-to-july-2024/.207748McDonald's Partners With Naruto's Studio Pierrot on Limited-Time Anime Project -https://www.cbr.com/mcdonalds-naruto-studio-pierrot-limited-time-anime/Demon Slayer: Hashira Training Arc 1st Episode Screening's Total Earnings Reach 1.25 Billion Yen -https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2024-02-13/demon-slayer-hashira-training-arc-1st-episode-screening-total-earnings-reach-1.25-billion-yen/.2075251st Haikyu!! Final Film Earns 2.23 Billion Yen in Its Opening Weekend -https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2024-02-19/1st-haikyu-final-film-earns-2.23-billion-yen-in-its-opening-weekend/.207746SPY×FAMILY Code: White Anime Film Earns 6 Billion Yen in 59 Days -https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2024-02-19/spy-family-code-white-anime-film-earns-6-billion-yen-in-59-days/.207751'Go, Go, Loser Ranger!' Anime's 2nd Video Reveals More Staff, Opening Song, April 7 Debut -https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2024-02-19/go-go-loser-ranger-anime-2nd-video-reveals-more-staff-opening-song-april-7-debut/.207770Reports: Nintendo Switch Successor to Launch in 1st Quarter 2025 - https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/daily-briefs/2024-02-17/reports-nintendo-switch-successor-to-launch-in-1st-quarter-2025/.207696Solo Leveling Episode 8 has been delayed - https://www.dexerto.com/anime/solo-leveling-episode-8-delay-2540096/

Opening Song: 25 (https://open.spotify.com/track/3Do95RPMT01nDcD3h4wskq?si=0282682e6a004e5d) by Red Rocks Worship Lyrics: To you, Lord, I lift my soul I will trust the one who steadies me I will wait and have no shame As you make me to know your ways All my days are yours Take me by the hand and lead me in your truth Teach my soul to rest only in you For you are the one who saves all the lengths of my days My hope rests only in you Forever I will fix my eyes On the rock who stands much higher You defend, you call me friend You have marked me with your righteousness Your presence is my home Take me by the hand and lead me in your truth Teach my soul to rest only in you For you are the one who saves all the lengths of my days My hope rests only in you You are good Lord Steadfast is your love You are good Lord Steadfast is your love You are good Lord Steadfast is your love You are good Lord Steadfast is your love Take me by the hand and lead me in your truth Teach my soul to rest only in you For you are the one who saves all the lengths of my days My hope rests only in you, only in you Passage: Lord, I appeal to you. 2 My God, I trust in you. Do not let me be disgraced; do not let my enemies gloat over me. 3 No one who waits for you will be disgraced; those who act treacherously without cause will be disgraced. 4 Make your ways known to me, Lord; teach me your paths. 5 Guide me in your truth and teach me, for you are the God of my salvation; I wait for you all day long. 6 Remember, Lord, your compassion and your faithful love, for they have existed from antiquity. 7 Do not remember the sins of my youth or my acts of rebellion; in keeping with your faithful love, remember me because of your goodness, Lord. 8 The Lord is good and upright; therefore he shows sinners the way. 9 He leads the humble in what is right and teaches them his way. 10 All the Lord's ways show faithful love and truth to those who keep his covenant and decrees. 11 Lord, for the sake of your name, forgive my iniquity, for it is immense. 12 Who is this person who fears the Lord? He will show him the way he should choose. 13 He will live a good life, and his descendants will inherit the land. 14 The secret counsel of the Lord is for those who fear him, and he reveals his covenant to them. -- Psalms 25:1-14 (CSB) Musical Reflection: “Be Thou My Vision,” old Irish folk tune Reflection Notes: The hymn commonly known as “Be Thou My Vision” is set to the tune SLANE, which is an old Irish folk tune. It samples both major and minor tonalities, with a perfect balance between the two. Prayer: I am spent, O my Christ, breath of my life. Perpetual stress and surge, in league together, make long, O long, this life, this business of living. Grappling with foes within and foes without, my soul has lost its beauty, blurred your image. Did ever oak such buffeting from winds or ship receive from waves as I do now? Labor to labor, task succeeds to task. . . . Friendship has bowed and illness wasted me. . . . Do not forsake me, my Strength, I beseech you. When the storms beat hard I may have betrayed you, but let me return to you now. -Gregory of Nazianzus

Did you see it? We all saw it…you can't miss it. Drake was forced on all of our timelines. (0:00) We go through the culture of sending & receiving nudes. We share personal stories and the truth behind sharing explicit content. Even Yomi shares a story (10:45). We cover the weird responses from Adin Ross & Adam 22 (23:00). Sadly, after learning details about the leak Mal has decided to remove Drake's music from his phone. The d*ck talk continues going over snipped and unsnipped (40:00). We learn what a DDL is and discuss hiding drugs. Did you know Rutgers had their own std? (50:00) We get into a discussion about Greek Life where Rory and Julian share their nontraditional college experiences. Rory and Mal guess what Divine Nine Fraternity Julian would be in (59:00). We discuss the shows Griselda (1:18:00), Love On The Spectrum (1:27:00), Michael Rappaport movies, and ultimately Shane Gillis's “return” to SNL (1:36:20). This leads to us speculating over Usher's Super Bowl show (1:53:30). It's time for voicemails! (2:09:55). We end the this episode the way we started…with s*x talk.Opening Song: '4pm In Calabasas' x DrakeFollow The Team:Rory - https://www.instagram.com/thisisrory/Mal - https://www.instagram.com/mal_bytheway/Julian - https://www.instagram.com/julian__nicholas/Demaris - https://www.instagram.com/demarisagiscombe/Merch: https://newrorynmal.com/Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/newrorynmalYouTube Subscribe: https://rb.gy/hk7up Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Did you see it? We all saw it…you can't miss it. Drake was forced on all of our timelines. (0:00) We go through the culture of sending & receiving nudes. We share personal stories and the truth behind sharing explicit content. Even Yomi shares a story (10:45). We cover the weird responses from Adin Ross & Adam 22 (23:00). Sadly, after learning details about the leak Mal has decided to remove Drake's music from his phone. The d*ck talk continues going over snipped and unsnipped (40:00). We learn what a DDL is and discuss hiding drugs. Did you know Rutgers had their own std? (50:00) We get into a discussion about Greek Life where Rory and Julian share their nontraditional college experiences. Rory and Mal guess what Divine Nine Fraternity Julian would be in (59:00). We discuss the shows Griselda (1:18:00), Love On The Spectrum (1:27:00), Michael Rappaport movies, and ultimately Shane Gillis's “return” to SNL (1:36:20). This leads to us speculating over Usher's Super Bowl show (1:53:30). It's time for voicemails! (2:09:55). We end the this episode the way we started…with s*x talk. Opening Song: '4pm In Calabasas' x Drake Follow The Team: Rory - https://www.instagram.com/thisisrory/ Mal - https://www.instagram.com/mal_bytheway/ Julian - https://www.instagram.com/julian__nicholas/ Demaris - https://www.instagram.com/demarisagiscombe/ Merch: https://newrorynmal.com/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/newrorynmal YouTube Subscribe: https://rb.gy/hk7up

Opening Song credits: Bring on the Happy © 2019 Make Yourself Heard/SESAC Writer: Denise Locke Heard Singer: Brynn Bowman https://www.brynnbowmanmusic.com Production/Recording: Denise Locke Heard Mix: Tom HirschmannClaire Perrine Links: https://music.apple.com/us/artist/claire-perrine/1711860769https://open.spotify.com/artist/3RzDRWiuOYGVRLaQznkR6J?si=fB9y58XLRX2uYWtfbU3MRwhttps://youtube.com/channel/UCWN8kz2V1gyqkU0QoTd7Y4A?si=KQXn8IirOCn0RkY0Book on Amazon- Keys to Every Key by Denise Locke Heardhttps://www.amazon.com/Keys-Every-Key-Denise-Heard-ebook/dp/B07C57Q453/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1Y12RCBLA0WYN&keywords=keys+to+every+key+Denise+Locke+Heard&qid=1702387386&sprefix=keys+to+every+key+denise+locke+heard%2Caps%2C95&sr=8-1

"Evil Dead Rise" meets me as a tempered 30-year-old, married with two kids. Fede Alvarez's "Evil Dead" met me at 20, boundlessly obsessed with what could be achieved with a fire tanker's worth of blood. Sam Raimi's "The Evil Dead" stunned me at age 11, the gnarliest movie I'd seen up to that point. I've grown up loving this franchise, so when I say Lee Cronin's installment left me wanting so much more than I got, take those words with a mine of salt. Even a 6/10 Evil Dead installment has the power to grab your sensibilities, stuff them in a burlap sack, alongside a scorpion and starving monkey, and shake the shit out of it until - something - spills out. Dead by dawn, indeed. Follow Daniel on - Twitter: TheMovies_Pod Bluesky: themovies.bsky.social Instagram: themoviespod ------------------------------------ Opening Song: "Hands" - Moving Mountains --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/themoviespodcast/message

Welcome back to The Movies! God, it feels good to type this. It's been more than seven months since the last episode, so THIS episode serves to explain a few things: where I've been, where I find myself now and where I hope to bring the podcast along in the future. It's a good ol' fashioned rambling ranty episode, so if you're into that, hang on tight and enjoy the ride! Follow Daniel on - Twitter: TheMovies_Pod Bluesky: themovies.bsky.social Instagram: themoviespod ------------------------------------ Opening Song: "Bogus Operandi" - The Hives --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/themoviespodcast/message

Steven Soderbergh is one of my favorite directors. That's not to say he's made my favorite movies, but rather, I admire the way he goes about selecting projects, his efficiency in getting projects done (He sometimes completes multiple movies in the same year!) , his penchant for big indulgent swings. And God, what a swing THE GOOD GERMAN is. The guy famous for the OCEAN'S ELEVEN remake and expanded trilogy decides to make his own film noir, researching '40s noir so heavily that he employs the same lenses, lighting techniques, methods of performance. The movie's detractors call this a pastiche. They're not wrong, but when I hear "pastiche," I think "lazy ripoff." Ain't nothing about this fucker lazy. Jake Geismer (George Clooney) arrives in post-WWII Berlin to find a city in ruins, split among the Allies for the spoils on the eves of the Potsdam Conference, where Harry S. Truman, Winston Churchill and Joseph Stalin will meet to discuss how to handle the aftermath of the war. Geismer's there to report on the conference, but becomes embroiled in a murder mystery involving his ex-flame Lena (Cate Blanchett), her new beau, an Army man-turned-smuggler named Tully (Tobey Maguire) and multiple government conspirators. All in a film's work for a noir protagonist. Look, even if a black-and-white '40s style noir isn't your thing, that cast? The director? It's a bounty of riches to play with. I'm not gonna say the movie's a masterpiece or anything, but if you think I wouldn't prefer this kind of project over the next Aquaman or Trolls movie, you're out your fuckin' mind. Follow Daniel on - Twitter: TheMovies_Pod Bluesky: themovies.bsky.social Instagram: themoviespod ------------------------------------ Opening Song: "Hands" - Moving Mountains Closing Song: "Countdown to Shutdown" - The Hives --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/themoviespodcast/message

Opening Song credits: Bring on the Happy © 2019 Make Yourself Heard/SESAC Writer: Denise Locke Heard Singer: Brynn Bowman https://www.brynnbowmanmusic.com Production/Recording: Denise Locke Heard Mix: Tom HirschmannClaire Perrine Links: https://music.apple.com/us/artist/claire-perrine/1711860769https://open.spotify.com/artist/3RzDRWiuOYGVRLaQznkR6J?si=fB9y58XLRX2uYWtfbU3MRwhttps://youtube.com/channel/UCWN8kz2V1gyqkU0QoTd7Y4A?si=KQXn8IirOCn0RkY0Book on Amazon- Keys to Every Key by Denise Locke Heardhttps://www.amazon.com/Keys-Every-Key-Denise-Heard-ebook/dp/B07C57Q453/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1Y12RCBLA0WYN&keywords=keys+to+every+key+Denise+Locke+Heard&qid=1702387386&sprefix=keys+to+every+key+denise+locke+heard%2Caps%2C95&sr=8-1

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Opening Song: 25 (https://open.spotify.com/track/3Do95RPMT01nDcD3h4wskq?si=0282682e6a004e5d) by Red Rocks Worship Lyrics: To you, Lord, I lift my soul I will trust the one who steadies me I will wait and have no shame As you make me to know your ways All my days are yours Take me by the hand and lead me in your truth Teach my soul to rest only in you For you are the one who saves all the lengths of my days My hope rests only in you Forever I will fix my eyes On the rock who stands much higher You defend, you call me friend You have marked me with your righteousness Your presence is my home Take me by the hand and lead me in your truth Teach my soul to rest only in you For you are the one who saves all the lengths of my days My hope rests only in you You are good Lord Steadfast is your love You are good Lord Steadfast is your love You are good Lord Steadfast is your love You are good Lord Steadfast is your love Take me by the hand and lead me in your truth Teach my soul to rest only in you For you are the one who saves all the lengths of my days My hope rests only in you, only in you Passage: 1 To you, O LORD, I lift up my soul. 2 O my God, in you I trust; let me not be put to shame; let not my enemies exult over me. 3 Indeed, none who wait for you shall be put to shame; they shall be ashamed who are wantonly treacherous. 4 Make me to know your ways, O LORD; teach me your paths. 5 Lead me in your truth and teach me, for you are the God of my salvation; for you I wait all the day long. 6 Remember your mercy, O LORD, and your steadfast love, for they have been from of old. 7 Remember not the sins of my youth or my transgressions; according to your steadfast love remember me, for the sake of your goodness, O LORD! 8 Good and upright is the LORD; therefore he instructs sinners in the way. 9 He leads the humble in what is right, and teaches the humble his way. 10 All the paths of the LORD are steadfast love and faithfulness, for those who keep his covenant and his testimonies. 11 For your name's sake, O LORD, pardon my guilt, for it is great. 12 Who is the man who fears the LORD? Him will he instruct in the way that he should choose. 13 His soul shall abide in well-being, and his offspring shall inherit the land. 14 The friendship of the LORD is for those who fear him, and he makes known to them his covenant. (Psalm 25:1–14 ESV) Musical Reflection: I Need Thee Every Hour (NEED) by Robert Lowry Reflection Notes: Each stanza of this familiar hymn was written by Annie Hawks as part of a poem. When she showed the composition to her pastor, Robert Lowry, he added the refrain and set the text to music for their congregation to enjoy. The musical lines always tend upward before falling back down, an apt parallel to the textual pleas reaching up to God. Prayer: I am spent, O my Christ, breath of my life. Perpetual stress and surge, in league together, make long, O long, this life, this business of living. Grappling with foes within and foes without, my soul has lost its beauty, blurred your image. Did ever oak such buffeting from winds or ship receive from waves as I do now? Labor to labor, task succeeds to task. . . . Friendship has bowed and illness wasted me. . . . Do not forsake me, my Strength, I beseech you. When the storms beat hard I may have betrayed you, but let me return to you now. -Gregory of Nazianzus

Tim starts this episode out solo regaling the listeners with stories from the road. Tim calls Bobby Condon so he can plug his new Stand Up Special "Greatest Hits" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYhTVLW76B0&t=95s And then about half way through Myka decides to join the fun and finish out the episode  Great Hang Patreon https://www.patreon.com/GreatHang Follow Myka @Mykafox https://twitter.com/MykaFox https://www.instagram.com/mykafox/ Follow Tim https://twitter.com/MayorOfFartTown https://www.instagram.com/hot_comic69/ Check Out Tough Questions with Jeff and Tim  iTunes https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/tough-questions/id1669524479 Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/0fy4RZhE6uE6WReq9jVP4O?si=c24824663daf4408 Ask Your Own Question Sign Up for The Patreon HERE! www.patreon.com/ToughQuestions      

Opening Song:  Psalm 26 by Ben and Noelle Kilgore  Lyrics: I have trusted in You, O Lord.  Therefore I shall not slide Search my heart and affections, Lord.  Your lovingkindness before my eyes.    You washed Your hands with my innocence  I fall at Your altar And I'll sing with thanksgiving  And tell of Your wondrous good    Alleluia, alleluia!  Alleluia, alleluia to the Lord most high   I love to be in Your house, O Lord Where Your glory and honor dwell Gather not my soul with darkness, God Of Your redemption I live to tell   Alleluia, alleluia!  Alleluia, alleluia to the Lord most high   You are merciful, O Lord From the top of my lungs I sing You place my feet on an even place To You, my rescuing King   Alleluia, alleluia!  Alleluia, alleluia to the Lord most high Passage: 1 Vindicate me, O LORD, for I have walked in my integrity, and I have trusted in the LORD without wavering. 2 Prove me, O LORD, and try me; test my heart and my mind. 3 For your steadfast love is before my eyes, and I walk in your faithfulness.   4 I do not sit with men of falsehood, nor do I consort with hypocrites. 5 I hate the assembly of evildoers, and I will not sit with the wicked.   6 I wash my hands in innocence and go around your altar, O LORD, 7 proclaiming thanksgiving aloud, and telling all your wondrous deeds.   8 O LORD, I love the habitation of your house and the place where your glory dwells. 9 Do not sweep my soul away with sinners, nor my life with bloodthirsty men, 10 in whose hands are evil devices, and whose right hands are full of bribes.   11 But as for me, I shall walk in my integrity; redeem me, and be gracious to me. 12 My foot stands on level ground; in the great assembly I will bless the LORD.  (Psalm 26:1–12) Musical Reflection:  O Lord, Hear My Prayer by Jacques Berthier Reflection Notes:  This song from the Taizé community contains a series of pleas: “O Lord, hear my prayer, O Lord, hear my prayer; when I call, answer me.” The repeated notes emphasize the insistence of the sung prayer, while the descending lines indicate a deep, almost despairing desire to connect.  Prayer:  Look mercifully, O Lord, we beseech you, on the affliction of your people; and let not our sins prevail to destroy us, but rather your abundant mercy to save us, through Jesus Christ our Lord. The Leonine Sacramentary

Opening Song: (https://open.spotify.com/track/5iC83vBtNrDDj7ioeg56Pt?si=0e5dc05911694d2e)I Will Exalt You by Amanda Cook, sung here by Shane & Shane Lyrics: Your Presence is all I need It's all I want it's all I seek Without it without it there's no meaning Your Presence is the air I breathe The song I sing and the love I need And without it without it I'm not living (REPEAT) I will exalt You Lord I will exalt You Lord There is no one like You God I will exalt You Lord I will exalt You Lord No other name be lifted high There will be no one like You And no one beside You You alone are worthy of all praise Your Presence is all I need It's all I want all I seek Without it without it there's no meaning Passage: 10 Enter into the rock and hide in the dust from before the terror of the LORD, and from the splendor of his majesty. 11 The haughty looks of man shall be brought low, and the lofty pride of men shall be humbled, and the LORD alone will be exalted in that day. 12 For the LORD of hosts has a day against all that is proud and lofty, against all that is lifted up—and it shall be brought low; 13 against all the cedars of Lebanon, lofty and lifted up; and against all the oaks of Bashan; 14 against all the lofty mountains, and against all the uplifted hills; 15 against every high tower, and against every fortified wall; 16 against all the ships of Tarshish, and against all the beautiful craft. 17 And the haughtiness of man shall be humbled, and the lofty pride of men shall be brought low, and the LORD alone will be exalted in that day. (Isaiah 2:10–17 ESV) Musical Reflection: It Is Well With My Soul (VILLE DU HAVRE) by Philip Bliss Reflection Notes: A hymn born in tragedy, “It is Well” was penned by Horatio Spafford after hearing that his daughters had all perished in a shipwreck. Through this devastation, Spafford and his wife clung to the promise of God's goodness. Spafford's immortal words were set to music by his good friend and hymn writer, Philip Bliss; Bliss titled the tune “Ville du Havre” after the ship on which Spafford's children had died. Prayer: Father, what we know not, teach us; what we have not, give us; what we are not, make us; for the sake of your Son our Savior. Amen. -Old Anglican Prayer

Taken from portions of a message given in Mansfield, Ohio, on June 11, 2023 - the first 10 minutes are a portion of the song service and begin with a new song written and performed by Danielle BaerSupport the showThank you for listening to our podcast!If you have any questions, subjects you would like to hear discussed, or feedback of any kind, you can contact us at: mansfieldgac@yahoo.com or through the links below, where you can find additional information about our work as well as other materials: https://mansfieldgac.com/ (church website)https://www.facebook.com/MansfieldGAC/ (church Facebook page)

Tim Rutili of Califone returns! Tim shares his thoughts about the pitfalls of nostalgia, the moment playing guitar felt like it was a part of him, the undeniable creepiness of Gene Simmons, and the process of making Califone's new album VILLAGERS. PRODUCTION NOTE: Due to bad internet there are a couple edits that jump a little time. I have much sadness about this. Opening Song, ox-eye from the album Villagers by Califone Villagers is out May 19th, 2023. Purchase it on Califone's BANDCAMPCalifone WebsiteDwyer's Substack The Eleventh Hour: Songs For Climate Justice Get a website from Kelly R Dwyer themattdwyer.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Mariel Hemingway + Melissa Yamaguchi - Out Comes The Sun Music by Miley Cyrus "Flowers" www.MarielHemingwayFoundation.or

A continuation of some of my favorite lead-off tracks from full length records. A second installment from Episode 259: Side 1 / Track 1s. Tracklist here: https://spinitron.com/WRFI/pl/17093590/Searching-For-A-Thread

Opening Song:  Call Upon Him by Rachael Lampa, Sandra McCracken, and Trillia Newbell Lyrics: Call upon Him call upon Him There is power in the Name Call upon Him call upon Him There is power in the Name   When I don't have the words When the spirit hurts When my sorrow's too deep to understand Will You hear my voice saying speak oh Lord Mighty God Healing King take my hand   And in the night I pray When I feel afraid When there is no friend that I can see Can You hold me safe Can You break these chains Prince of Peace Father please set me free Passage:  9 because, if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. 10 For with the heart one believes and is justified, and with the mouth one confesses and is saved. 11 For the Scripture says, “Everyone who believes in him will not be put to shame.” 12 For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek; for the same Lord is Lord of all, bestowing his riches on all who call on him. 13 For “everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.” 14 How then will they call on him in whom they have not believed? And how are they to believe in him of whom they have never heard? And how are they to hear without someone preaching? 15 And how are they to preach unless they are sent? As it is written, “How beautiful are the feet of those who preach the good news!” 16 But they have not all obeyed the gospel. For Isaiah says, “Lord, who has believed what he has heard from us?” 17 So faith comes from hearing, and hearing through the word of Christ. (Romans 10:9–17 ESV) Musical Reflection:  All to Jesus I Surrender (SURRENDER) by Winfield S. Weeden Reflection Notes:  This tune was originally intended to have two-part harmonies on the verse and four-part harmonies of the refrain; the additional harmonic fullness adds to the repeated emphasis of the words “I surrender all.”  Prayer: Almighty God, through the outpouring of the Holy Spirit, you revealed the way of eternal life to every race and nation: Pour out this gift anew, that by the preaching of the Gospel your salvation may reach to the ends of the earth; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever.  Amen.

Kyle Field (Little Wings) and Lee Baggett have been playing in one form or another for years. One of those forms is a Be Gulls. Both gents are favorites of listeners and myself so I thought it would be a great and groovy idea to get them on the show together to discuss the Be Gulls, working/touring together and the current world of music. We also have a few digressions into rush, and what extension cords Lee likes to use.Opening Song, "Whisperskits, from the album By The Beach by Be GullsKyle Field/Little Wings BandcampLee Baggett BandcampPerpetual Doom The Eleventh Hour: Songs For Climate Justice Get a website from Kelly R. Dwyer themattdwyer.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Opening Song:  Psalm 34 (Taste and See) by Joe Rigney and Shane Barnard Lyrics: I sought the Lord and He answered me And delivered me from every fear Those who look on Him are radiant They'll never be ashamed They'll never be ashamed   This poor man cried and the Lord heard me And saved me from my enemies The Son of God surrounds His saints He will deliver them He will deliver them   Magnify the Lord with me Come exalt His name together Glorify the Lord with me Come exalt His name forever   O taste and see that the Lord is good O blessed is he who hides in Him O fear the Lord O all you saints He'll give you everything He'll give you everything   Let us bless the Lord Every day and night Never ending praise May our incense rise Passage:  Taste and See That the Lord Is Good [a] Of David, when he changed his behavior before Abimelech, so that he drove him out, and he went away. 34 I will bless the Lord at all times;     his praise shall continually be in my mouth. 2 My soul makes its boast in the Lord;     let the humble hear and be glad. 3 Oh, magnify the Lord with me,     and let us exalt his name together!   4 I sought the Lord, and he answered me     and delivered me from all my fears. 5 Those who look to him are radiant,     and their faces shall never be ashamed. 6 This poor man cried, and the Lord heard him     and saved him out of all his troubles. 7 The angel of the Lord encamps     around those who fear him, and delivers them.   8 Oh, taste and see that the Lord is good!     Blessed is the man who takes refuge in him! 9 Oh, fear the Lord, you his saints,     for those who fear him have no lack! 10 The young lions suffer want and hunger;     but those who seek the Lord lack no good thing.   11 Come, O children, listen to me;     I will teach you the fear of the Lord. 12 What man is there who desires life     and loves many days, that he may see good? 13 Keep your tongue from evil     and your lips from speaking deceit. 14 Turn away from evil and do good;     seek peace and pursue it.   15 The eyes of the Lord are toward the righteous     and his ears toward their cry. 16 The face of the Lord is against those who do evil,     to cut off the memory of them from the earth. 17 When the righteous cry for help, the Lord hears     and delivers them out of all their troubles. 18 The Lord is near to the brokenhearted     and saves the crushed in spirit.   19 Many are the afflictions of the righteous,     but the Lord delivers him out of them all. 20 He keeps all his bones;     not one of them is broken. 21 Affliction will slay the wicked,     and those who hate the righteous will be condemned. 22 The Lord redeems the life of his servants;     none of those who take refuge in him will be condemned. Musical Reflection:  Nothing But The Blood (PLAINFIELD) by Robert Lowry Reflection Notes:  Lowry wrote several hymns for his congregation's use in the late nineteenth century. This particular tune is pentatonic (only five notes used per octave) and falls within a small vocal range, which made it accessible for all parishioners to sing and enjoy.  Prayer:  O Lord, you have mercy upon all—take away from me my sins, and mercifully kindle in me the fire of your Holy Spirit. Take away from me the heart of stone, and give me a heart of flesh, a heart to love and adore you, a heart to delight in you, to follow and to enjoy you, for Christ's sake. Amen. Ambrose  

Opening Song:  Jesus, Bread of Life by Audrey Assad and Fernando Ortega Lyrics: Jesus bread of life manna from heaven Broken for the world Offered up for every man The feast of angels Becomes food for the weary And hungry hearts are filled When you open up your hand   Oh Lord come fill us with your love This table laid for us There is more than enough Jesus bread of life   Sister take what you need anything I own There is no famine here Jesus' love will multiply Brother what's mine is yours you are not alone There is no shortage here Jesus' love satisfies Jesus' love satisfies Passage:  19  The people came up out of the Jordan on the tenth day of the first month, and they encamped at Gilgal on the east border of Jericho. 20 And those twelve stones, which they took out of the Jordan, Joshua set up at Gilgal. 21 And he said to the people of Israel, “When your children ask their fathers in times to come, ‘What do these stones mean?' 22 then you shall let your children know, ‘Israel passed over this Jordan on dry ground.' 23 For the LORD your God dried up the waters of the Jordan for you until you passed over, as the LORD your God did to the Red Sea, which he dried up for us until we passed over, 24 so that all the peoples of the earth may know that the hand of the LORD is mighty, that you may fear the LORD your God forever.”   1 As soon as all the kings of the Amorites who were beyond the Jordan to the west, and all the kings of the Canaanites who were by the sea, heard that the LORD had dried up the waters of the Jordan for the people of Israel until they had crossed over, their hearts melted and there was no longer any spirit in them because of the people of Israel.   2 At that time the LORD said to Joshua, “Make flint knives and circumcise the sons of Israel a second time.” 3 So Joshua made flint knives and circumcised the sons of Israel at Gibeath-haaraloth. 4 And this is the reason why Joshua circumcised them: all the males of the people who came out of Egypt, all the men of war, had died in the wilderness on the way after they had come out of Egypt. 5 Though all the people who came out had been circumcised, yet all the people who were born on the way in the wilderness after they had come out of Egypt had not been circumcised. 6 For the people of Israel walked forty years in the wilderness, until all the nation, the men of war who came out of Egypt, perished, because they did not obey the voice of the LORD; the LORD swore to them that he would not let them see the land that the LORD had sworn to their fathers to give to us, a land flowing with milk and honey. 7 So it was their children, whom he raised up in their place, that Joshua circumcised. For they were uncircumcised, because they had not been circumcised on the way.   8 When the circumcising of the whole nation was finished, they remained in their places in the camp until they were healed. 9 And the LORD said to Joshua, “Today I have rolled away the reproach of Egypt from you.” And so the name of that place is called Gilgal to this day.   10 While the people of Israel were encamped at Gilgal, they kept the Passover on the fourteenth day of the month in the evening on the plains of Jericho. 11 And the day after the Passover, on that very day, they ate of the produce of the land, unleavened cakes and parched grain. 12 And the manna ceased the day after they ate of the produce of the land. And there was no longer manna for the people of Israel, but they ate of the fruit of the land of Canaan that year.   (Joshua 4:19–5:12 ESV) Musical Reflection: “Breathe on Me, Breath of God,” tune by Robert Jackson Reflection Notes:  TRENTHAM is a tune by Robert Jackson, an English composer during the nineteenth century. It fits perfectly with the text for “Breath On Me, Breath of God,” by Edwin Hatch; each phrase is allotted ample space for reflection. Prayer: This is another day, O Lord. I know not what it will bring forth, but make me ready, Lord, for whatever it may be. If I am to stand up, help me to stand bravely. If I am to sit still, help me to sit quietly. If I am to lie low, help me to do it patiently. And if I am to do nothing, let me do it gallantly. Make these words more than words, and give me the Spirit of Jesus. Amen.

Lisa O'Neill is a singer/songwriter from Dublin Ireland. She joins Dwyer to discuss how artists should take the position of the dreamer, cancelling meetings if inspiration strikes, the Jackson 5 inspired her to perform music, and how we are all a part of nature and the earth hosts us. Lisa's latest album All Of This Is Chance is out now on Rough Trade Records.Opening Song, "Silver Seed," from the album All of This is Chance by Lisa O'Neill.Order All This Is ChanceLisa O'Neill's WebsiteThe Eleventh Hour: Songs For Climate Justice Get a website from Kelly R Dwyer themattdwyer.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Opening Song:  O Lord, open our lips and our mouths will declare Your praise.  Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit,  As it was in the beginning, is now and ever shall be, world without end,  Amen.    The Scripture for today is Jeremiah 17:5-10.    Let's prepare our hearts to hear from God's word as we listen to By the Streams by Jonathan Ogden. A steady rhythmic pattern is established by sustained piano tones; other electronic instruments are gradually layered on top. The vocal line is gentle as the text expresses yearning to be planted like a tree by the streams of living water. Lyrics: I have found my souls delight In You Lord In you lord I have found my souls delight In Your eyes In your eyes   Your word is water to my soul Your word is life to me   Plant me like a tree by the streams of living water Plant me like a tree by the streams by the streams   Day and night I will meditate on Your word Passage:  5   Thus says the LORD: “Cursed is the man who trusts in man and makes flesh his strength, whose heart turns away from the LORD. 6 He is like a shrub in the desert, and shall not see any good come. He shall dwell in the parched places of the wilderness, in an uninhabited salt land.   7 “Blessed is the man who trusts in the LORD, whose trust is the LORD. 8 He is like a tree planted by water, that sends out its roots by the stream, and does not fear when heat comes, for its leaves remain green, and is not anxious in the year of drought, for it does not cease to bear fruit.”   9 The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately sick; who can understand it? 10 “I the LORD search the heart and test the mind, to give every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his deeds.”   (Jeremiah 17:5–10 ESV) Musical Reflection:  “Air on the G String” from Orchestral Suite No. 3 in D Major by J.S. Bach Reflection Notes:  The slow, descending bass line creates musical “steps” in an elegant fashion while a suspended melody several octaves above creates a satisfying combination of sound registers. Prayer: This is another day, O Lord. I know not what it will bring forth, but make me ready, Lord, for whatever it may be. If I am to stand up, help me to stand bravely. If I am to sit still, help me to sit quietly. If I am to lie low, help me to do it patiently. And if I am to do nothing, let me do it gallantly. Make these words more than words, and give me the Spirit of Jesus. Amen.

Singer/Songwriter/Producer from Catalonia Spain Núria Graham joins Dwyer to talk about the theories she had on the universe at the age of 8, how being shi tty adult makes for a good artist, using cookie boxes as percussion instruments and taking the role as producer on her new album Cyclamen. Opening Song, Yes, It's Me, The Goldfish from the Album Cyclamen By Núria GrahamNúria's Website Buy The Eleventh Hour: Songs For Climate Justice HEREGet a website from Kelly R. Dwyer HERE Themattdwyer.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Opening Song: Altogether Good by Brian Eichelberger and Zach Bolen  Lyrics: How could we recount the ways That You have multiplied our faith The wisdom of Your ways The currents of Your grace expressed In every moment every wave   In the longing of our souls In the darkness where we go You are there You are love You are altogether good In the weakness of our faith In the silence where we wait You are here You're enough You are altogether good   Through our joys and in our griefs You have led us to believe The wisdom of Your ways The currents of Your grace express Our only hope for all our days   You are altogether good   I love You Lord I love You Lord You are my more Wholly present and pure (You are altogether good) Passage:  Luke 5:1-11 On one occasion, while the crowd was pressing in on him to hear the word of God, he was standing by the lake of Gennesaret, 2 and he saw two boats by the lake, but the fishermen had gone out of them and were washing their nets. 3 Getting into one of the boats, which was Simon's, he asked him to put out a little from the land. And he sat down and taught the people from the boat. 4 And when he had finished speaking, he said to Simon, “Put out into the deep and let down your nets for a catch.” 5 And Simon answered, “Master, we toiled all night and took nothing! But at your word I will let down the nets.” 6 And when they had done this, they enclosed a large number of fish, and their nets were breaking. 7 They signaled to their partners in the other boat to come and help them. And they came and filled both the boats, so that they began to sink. 8 But when Simon Peter saw it, he fell down at Jesus' knees, saying, “Depart from me, for I am a sinful man, O Lord.” 9 For he and all who were with him were astonished at the catch of fish that they had taken, 10 and so also were James and John, sons of Zebedee, who were partners with Simon. And Jesus said to Simon, “Do not be afraid; from now on you will be catching men.”[a] 11 And when they had brought their boats to land, they left everything and followed him. Musical Reflection:  “Amazing Grace,” Appalachian folk tune Reflection Notes:  This beloved tune, formally known as NEW BRITAIN, originates from the folk music of Appalachia. The melody is simple and outlines triads, making it memorable; the ascending line creates a triumphant climax.  Prayer: O Lord, our heavenly Father, keep your household the Church continually in your true religion, that we who trust in the hope of your heavenly grace may always be defended by your mighty power; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, now and for ever.  Amen.

Dom L'Amour speaks with good friend Spencer Day AKA (@Latenightsax) about about Perspective, Being a father, Music, Finding yourself, and so much more.Opening Song: "East of the Sun" Preformed by Dom L'Amour and Spencer Day on Saxophone at The Sammy and Liza Cabaret Opening and Closing Theme song: Produced by Dom L'AmourTransition Music from "Unforgettable" at my Senior Cabaret"Bless you for the good that's in you"off of my first album "Sweet Dreams" Featuring Spencer Day and Kim Massie"My Funny Valentine" at The Sammy and Liza Cabaret featuring Tayloir Pace"Orange Colored Sky" at my Senior CabaretAll music Featuring Spencer day on SaxCover art by Studio Mania: Custom Art @studiomania99Please subscribe to the podcast, and give us a good rating. 5 stars please and thank you. Follow me on @doml_amour on Instagram. Or at domlamour.comSupport the show

Opening Song:  Morning by Morning by Ben Smith, Daniel Bashta, Mack Brock, and Pat Barrett Lyrics: Daily daily I surrender Grace for today is all that I need Surprised by Your mercy It's new every morning   Awaken my soul to sing (2X)   I will trust where You lead I will trust when I can't see Morning by morning Great is Your faithfulness to me   Breath by breath overtaken by want One step at a time when I'm overwhelmed Strength for today Bright hope for tomorrow   I will trust with all my heart You are good You always are Morning by morning Great is Your faithfulness to me   All fear be reminded My future is secure Oh my Father has spoken And He keeps His every word   Oh I will trust Oh morning by morning Passage:  1 Corinthians 15:1-11  Now I would remind you, brothers,[a] of the gospel I preached to you, which you received, in which you stand, 2 and by which you are being saved, if you hold fast to the word I preached to you—unless you believed in vain. 3 For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received: that Christ died for our sins in accordance with the Scriptures, 4 that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day in accordance with the Scriptures, 5 and that he appeared to Cephas, then to the twelve. 6 Then he appeared to more than five hundred brothers at one time, most of whom are still alive, though some have fallen asleep. 7 Then he appeared to James, then to all the apostles. 8 Last of all, as to one untimely born, he appeared also to me. 9 For I am the least of the apostles, unworthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God. 10 But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace toward me was not in vain. On the contrary, I worked harder than any of them, though it was not I, but the grace of God that is with me. 11 Whether then it was I or they, so we preach and so you believed. Musical Reflection:  JESUS, REMEMBER ME by Jacques Berthier  Reflection Notes:  “Jesus, Remember Me” is a tune from the French Taizé tradition; these simple songs are meant to be repeated indefinitely with added instrumentation or voice parts. They are meant to be meditative and allow for prayer. 4 Prayer: Almighty and everlasting God, in your tender love for us you sent your Son our Savior Jesus Christ to take upon himself our nature, and to suffer death upon the Cross, giving us the example of his great humility: Mercifully grant that we may walk in the way of his suffering, and come to share in his resurrection; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever.  Amen.

Opening Song:  Speak Peace (Psalm 85) by Daniel Snoke Lyrics: Speak peace to Your people Speak peace to Your saints Speak peace to Your people Speak peace to all the earth   Surely His salvation is at hand Unfailing love and truth have met  Righteousness will cover all the earth And His glory now fills the land   Speak peace to Your people Speak peace to Your saints Speak peace to Your people Speak peace to all the earth   Lord, revive Your joy in us again And let us hear what You will say Will Your anger always be on us Will You not restore us again   You have covered all our sin  We have been restored again  Show us Your unfailing love Grant us salvation    Speak peace to Your people Speak peace to Your saints Speak peace to Your people Speak peace to all the earth Passage:  Psalm 85 Lord, you were favorable to your land;     you restored the fortunes of Jacob. 2 You forgave the iniquity of your people;     you covered all their sin. Selah 3 You withdrew all your wrath;     you turned from your hot anger.   4 Restore us again, O God of our salvation,     and put away your indignation toward us! 5 Will you be angry with us forever?     Will you prolong your anger to all generations? 6 Will you not revive us again,     that your people may rejoice in you? 7 Show us your steadfast love, O Lord,     and grant us your salvation.   8 Let me hear what God the Lord will speak,     for he will speak peace to his people, to his saints;     but let them not turn back to folly. 9 Surely his salvation is near to those who fear him,     that glory may dwell in our land.   10 Steadfast love and faithfulness meet;     righteousness and peace kiss each other. 11 Faithfulness springs up from the ground,     and righteousness looks down from the sky. 12 Yes, the Lord will give what is good,     and our land will yield its increase. 13 Righteousness will go before him     and make his footsteps a way. Musical Reflection:  It Is Well With My Soul (VILLE DU HAVRE) by Philip Bliss Reflection Notes:  A hymn born in tragedy, “It is Well” was penned by Horatio Spafford after hearing that his daughters had all perished in a shipwreck. Through this devastation, Spafford and his wife clung to the promise of God's goodness. Spafford's immortal words were set to music by his good friend and hymn writer, Philip Bliss; Bliss titled the tune “Ville du Havre” after the ship on which Spafford's children had died.  Prayer:  O God, the author of peace and lover of concord, to know you is eternal life and to serve you is perfect freedom: Defend us, your humble servants, in all assaults of our enemies; that we, surely trusting in your defense, may not fear the power of any adversaries, through the might of Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

Opening Song:  Battle Belongs by Brian Johnson and Phil Wickham Lyrics: When all I see is the battle You see my victory When all I see is a mountain You see a mountain moved And as I walk through the shadow Your love surrounds me There's nothing to fear now For I am safe with You   So when I fight I'll fight on my knees With my hands lifted high O God the battle belongs to You And every fear I lay at Your feet I'll sing through the night O God the battle belongs to You   And if You are for me Who can be against me For Jesus there's nothing Impossible for You When all I see are the ashes You see the beauty When all I see is a cross God You see the empty tomb   Almighty Fortress You go before us Nothing can stand against The power of our God You shine in the shadows You win every battle Nothing can stand against The power of our God   O God the battle belongs to You Passage:  Judges 6:11-24  Now the angel of the Lord came and sat under the terebinth at Ophrah, which belonged to Joash the Abiezrite, while his son Gideon was beating out wheat in the winepress to hide it from the Midianites. 12 And the angel of the Lord appeared to him and said to him, “The Lord is with you, O mighty man of valor.” 13 And Gideon said to him, “Please, my lord, if the Lord is with us, why then has all this happened to us? And where are all his wonderful deeds that our fathers recounted to us, saying, ‘Did not the Lord bring us up from Egypt?' But now the Lord has forsaken us and given us into the hand of Midian.” 14 And the Lord[a] turned to him and said, “Go in this might of yours and save Israel from the hand of Midian; do not I send you?” 15 And he said to him, “Please, Lord, how can I save Israel? Behold, my clan is the weakest in Manasseh, and I am the least in my father's house.” 16 And the Lord said to him, “But I will be with you, and you shall strike the Midianites as one man.” 17 And he said to him, “If now I have found favor in your eyes, then show me a sign that it is you who speak with me. 18 Please do not depart from here until I come to you and bring out my present and set it before you.” And he said, “I will stay till you return.” 19 So Gideon went into his house and prepared a young goat and unleavened cakes from an ephah[b] of flour. The meat he put in a basket, and the broth he put in a pot, and brought them to him under the terebinth and presented them. 20 And the angel of God said to him, “Take the meat and the unleavened cakes, and put them on this rock, and pour the broth over them.” And he did so. 21 Then the angel of the Lord reached out the tip of the staff that was in his hand and touched the meat and the unleavened cakes. And fire sprang up from the rock and consumed the meat and the unleavened cakes. And the angel of the Lord vanished from his sight. 22 Then Gideon perceived that he was the angel of the Lord. And Gideon said, “Alas, O Lord God! For now I have seen the angel of the Lord face to face.” 23 But the Lord said to him, “Peace be to you. Do not fear; you shall not die.” 24 Then Gideon built an altar there to the Lord and called it, The Lord Is Peace. To this day it still stands at Ophrah, which belongs to the Abiezrites. Musical Reflection: Harp Meditation No. 3 by Gretchen Kirby Reflection Notes:  This harp reflection features rich, full chords with a strong melody. The tension between major and minor chords reflects the challenges and triumphs of life.  Prayer: This is another day, O Lord. I know not what it will bring forth, but make me ready, Lord, for whatever it may be. If I am to stand up, help me to stand bravely. If I am to sit still, help me to sit quietly. If I am to lie low, help me to do it patiently. And if I am to do nothing, let me do it gallantly. Make these words more than words, and give me the Spirit of Jesus. Amen.

Opening Song: You Came For Me by Amanda Williams, Leslie Jordan, and Sally Lloyd-Jones Lyrics: Hiding in plain sight praying for some peace Carrying my burden looking for relief Wearied as I was I felt You close to me Reaching out Your hand You offered me a drink   And You wouldn't speak to me a single word If You only knew the things I've done   You came for me Jesus You came for me Jesus In spite of my shame You called me by name   You came for me Jesus You came for me Jesus I'll leave all that I know Just to go where You go   Springs of Living Water welling up in me Bringing life abundant setting my heart free And it's more than I can hope Oh it's more than I can dream A love so overwhelming it fills the depths in me   I'll never be thirsty Forever forever I'll never be thirsty Forever forever   I'll leave all that I know Just to go where You go Passage:  Luke 4:21-32   And he began to say to them, “Today this Scripture has been fulfilled in your hearing.” 22 And all spoke well of him and marveled at the gracious words that were coming from his mouth. And they said, “Is not this Joseph's son?” 23 And he said to them, “Doubtless you will quote to me this proverb, ‘“Physician, heal yourself.” What we have heard you did at Capernaum, do here in your hometown as well.'” 24 And he said, “Truly, I say to you, no prophet is acceptable in his hometown. 25 But in truth, I tell you, there were many widows in Israel in the days of Elijah, when the heavens were shut up three years and six months, and a great famine came over all the land, 26 and Elijah was sent to none of them but only to Zarephath, in the land of Sidon, to a woman who was a widow. 27 And there were many lepers[a] in Israel in the time of the prophet Elisha, and none of them was cleansed, but only Naaman the Syrian.” 28 When they heard these things, all in the synagogue were filled with wrath. 29 And they rose up and drove him out of the town and brought him to the brow of the hill on which their town was built, so that they could throw him down the cliff. 30 But passing through their midst, he went away.   31 And he went down to Capernaum, a city of Galilee. And he was teaching them on the Sabbath, 32 and they were astonished at his teaching, for his word possessed authority. Musical Reflection:  All to Jesus I Surrender (SURRENDER) by Winfield S. Weeden Reflection Notes:  This tune was originally intended to have two-part harmonies on the verse and four-part harmonies of the refrain; the additional harmonic fullness adds to the repeated emphasis of the words “I surrender all.”  Prayer: Lord Jesus Christ, you stretched out your arms of love on the hard wood of the Cross that everyone might come within the reach of your saving embrace: So clothe us in your Spirit that we, reaching forth our hands in love, may bring those who do not know you to the knowledge and love of you; for the honor of your Name. Amen.

Margaret McCarthy of the Chicago based trio Moontype joins Dwyer to share her thoughts on how the earth is a living organism, making beats with kitchen appliances, the joys of field recording, the serendipitous tale of how she started playing bass and writing music from an emotional space. Opening Song, About You from the album Bodies of Water by MoontypeMoontype Bandcamp HEREMoontype on Instagram The Eleventh Hour: Songs For Climate Justice buy at Sub PopDark Was the Night Cold Was the Ground by Blind Willie Johnson Joe Bussard Piece Dan Finkle's book Mr. Taffle's Pants of Insanity Get a website from Kelly R. Dwyer themattdwyer.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Happy New Year Folks! First episode of 2023 is here loaded with tons of content to cover. Curtis, Ian, Ant, Jade, Napoleon and James are here to discuss everything from the Ohio State college football playoff game with insight from the on site correspondent Ant. The fellas talk about how they brought in the New Year then talking about the Vince McMahon return to WWE Board of Director in the living example of a power move. Next the guys talk about the freakish accident on field of Damar Hamlin, PlayStation 5 sales and the guy's first ever video game consoles they owed and played. Lastly the guys discuss the recent passing of famed rapper Gangsta Boo from Three Six Mafia, Fred White from Earth Wind and Fire and Barbara Walters. This and so much more are discussed on this episode. As always each show is mixed, engineered and produced by the show's own Curtis, the owner of Diamond Music Group. Be sure to go back and download all episodes on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify Podcasts, Pandora, iHeartRadio, Audible, Amazon Music, SIRIUS XM and wherever you find your podcasts at. Opening Song: 50 Cent -If I Can'tClosing Song: Twista-Pimp Like Me

The great Julie Doiron joins Dwyer in an epic conversation about being signed to Sub Pop amidst the Grunge hubbub, why she feels happy songs are bragging, the brilliance of Mount Eerie's Phil Elverum, and the future of house shows. This is part one of an epic two part conversation. Part two lives solely on my patreon page and you an listen to that HERE.Opening Song, You Gave Me The Key from the album I Thought of You by Julie Doiron.Julie's bandcamp HEREJulie's official website The 11th Hour: Songs For Climate Justice Purchase HEREPerpetual Doom Preservation Society SubscriptionMike Bridenstine's Comedy Album HustleGet a website by Kelly R Dwyerthemattdwyer.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Charlotte Cornfield joins Dwyer to talk about the Climate Crisis and the Sub Pop compilation album The 11th Hour: Songs For Climate Justice which Charlotte has so graciously lent a song to. Charlotte and Dwyer also talk about the coolness of Jeff Tweedy, how her adolescence shaped her music, taking improv classes and how the pandemic got her to learn how to drive.Opening Song, I Thought I Saw You from the album The 11th Hour: Songs For Climate Justice.You can buy the 11th Hour album at Sub Pop Records starting October 28nd, 2022.You can donate to the Climate Emergency Fund. Charlotte Cornfield's websiteConversationswithdwyer.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Nashville musician and songwriter Thomas Oliverio from Tommy & The Ohs joins Dwyer to talk about his early days playing around Kentucky with Bawn & The Mash, cutting his chops on riverboats, working production on TV/Film to fund his albums, the glory of community radio stations and how the Perpetual Doom Label was gave him new life.Opening Song, Bombshell by Tommy & The Ohs from the album Mariposa GoldThe Patreon Exclusive Part 2 to the Conversation HERETommy & The Ohs InstagramThomas Oliverio LinktreePerpetual Doom BandcampClimate Emergency FundGet a Website from Kelly R. Dwyer Themattdwyer.com Our GDPR privacy policy was updated on August 8, 2022. Visit acast.com/privacy for more information.

Alex Edkins returns to discuss his new band Weird Nightmare, how this side project help him cope through the pandemic, his desire to write hookier tunes, and the love METZ felt when they got their gear stolen in California. We also discuss his side project of scoring films and television.Opening Song, Searching For You from the album Weird Nightmare out on Sub Pop Records.Weird Nightmare BandcampWeird Nightmare InstagramWeird Nightmare TwitterMETZ websiteEdkins & Walsh Film/TV scoresClimate Emergency FundThemattdwyer.comKelly R. Dwyer Dot Com See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Emily Bingham, a historian and Louisville-native, has spent years examining the troubling history of this iconic American melody, the Kentucky's State Anthem, "My Old Kentucky Home." She provides an analysis and an historical context for the song's lyrics, and given it's problematic association with mistral shows, she addresses the question of how to move forward while learning from the country's painful legacy of slavery. #KentuckyDerby #MyOldKentuckyHome Episode Resources Book: MY OLD KENTUCKY HOME: THE ASTONISHING LIFE AND RECKONING OF AN ICONIC AMERICAN SONG  Original Lyrics: My Old Kentucky Home Lyrics ABOUT THE AUTHOR Emily Bingham is a native of Louisville, Kentucky. She is the author of the prizewinning biography, Irrepressible: The Jazz Age Life of Henrietta Bingham, and a multigenerational family saga, Mordecai: An Early American Family. She currently serves as Visiting Honors Faculty Fellow at Bellarmine University. Listen to All Electorette Episodes https://www.electorette.com/podcast Support the Electorette Rate & Review on iTunes: https://apple.co/2GsfQj4 Support Electorette on Patreon for $2/month: http://bit.ly/Electorette-Patreon Also, if you enjoy the Electorette, please subscribe and leave a 5-star review on iTunes. Also, please spread the word by telling your friends, family and colleagues about The Electorette! Want to support the Electorette so that we can bring you more great episodes? You can help us produce more episodes with just $2/per month on Patreon. Every bit helps! Patreon.com/Electorette WANT MORE ELECTORETTE? Follow the Electorette on social media. Electorette Facebook Electorette Instagram Electorette Twitter Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices