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The Most Dramatic Podcast Ever with Chris Harrison
Dethroned Miss NC USA Sues Pageant Organizers, Claims N-Word Is “Popular Slang”

The Most Dramatic Podcast Ever with Chris Harrison

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 25, 2026 48:41 Transcription Available


WOW. Not only did the dethroned Miss North Carolina NOT apologize for using the N-word, or any other offensive previous social media posts, she claimed her right to use the racist slurs because her great grandfather identified as black AND because it’s popular slang used by Beyonce and other artists. In her new lawsuit, which is a hell of a read, Brittany Boltinhouse claims pageant officials “maliciously coordinated to publish a narrative portraying her as a racist, homophobe, transphobe, and intolerable bigot.” She takes zero responsibility for her past actions, and instead is asking for an unidentified sum of money for her “excruciating reputational destruction.”See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Amy and T.J. Podcast
Dethroned Miss NC USA Sues Pageant Organizers, Claims N-Word Is “Popular Slang”

Amy and T.J. Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 25, 2026 48:41 Transcription Available


WOW. Not only did the dethroned Miss North Carolina NOT apologize for using the N-word, or any other offensive previous social media posts, she claimed her right to use the racist slurs because her great grandfather identified as black AND because it’s popular slang used by Beyonce and other artists. In her new lawsuit, which is a hell of a read, Brittany Boltinhouse claims pageant officials “maliciously coordinated to publish a narrative portraying her as a racist, homophobe, transphobe, and intolerable bigot.” She takes zero responsibility for her past actions, and instead is asking for an unidentified sum of money for her “excruciating reputational destruction.”See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

How Men Think with Brooks Laich & Gavin DeGraw
Dethroned Miss NC USA Sues Pageant Organizers, Claims N-Word Is “Popular Slang”

How Men Think with Brooks Laich & Gavin DeGraw

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 25, 2026 48:41 Transcription Available


WOW. Not only did the dethroned Miss North Carolina NOT apologize for using the N-word, or any other offensive previous social media posts, she claimed her right to use the racist slurs because her great grandfather identified as black AND because it’s popular slang used by Beyonce and other artists. In her new lawsuit, which is a hell of a read, Brittany Boltinhouse claims pageant officials “maliciously coordinated to publish a narrative portraying her as a racist, homophobe, transphobe, and intolerable bigot.” She takes zero responsibility for her past actions, and instead is asking for an unidentified sum of money for her “excruciating reputational destruction.”See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Daily Detroit
Detroit Sandwich Party Returns Bigger Than Ever for 2026 (with Carlos Parisi)

Daily Detroit

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 25, 2026 16:41


The Detroit Sandwich Party is back and bigger than ever, doubling its footprint at Eastern Market on September 6th with 50 vendors, kid-friendly games, and even... carbonated pickle juice. Organizer and sandwich lover Carlos Parisi joins the show to walk us through this year's massive expansion into the Shed 5 parking lot, share pro tips for getting the most out of the event, and we tease some of the top-tier bites on the lineup. Grab a friend (or a foe, why not), map out your game plan, and get ready for what's become one of the must-see local food events of the summer. More: https://www.instagram.com/detroitsandwichparty/?hl=en Full transcript on our website. Local media needs local support to survive and thrive! Be sure to support our work on Patreon: https://patreon.com/DailyDetroit  

Rachel Goes Rogue
Dethroned Miss NC USA Sues Pageant Organizers, Claims N-Word Is “Popular Slang”

Rachel Goes Rogue

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 25, 2026 48:41 Transcription Available


WOW. Not only did the dethroned Miss North Carolina NOT apologize for using the N-word, or any other offensive previous social media posts, she claimed her right to use the racist slurs because her great grandfather identified as black AND because it’s popular slang used by Beyonce and other artists. In her new lawsuit, which is a hell of a read, Brittany Boltinhouse claims pageant officials “maliciously coordinated to publish a narrative portraying her as a racist, homophobe, transphobe, and intolerable bigot.” She takes zero responsibility for her past actions, and instead is asking for an unidentified sum of money for her “excruciating reputational destruction.”See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Risk Parity Radio
Episode 534: An RPC Free Portfolio Organizer, Assorted Asset Questions, And How Risk-Parity Style Portfolios Alleviate Concerns About "High Market Valuations" By Design

Risk Parity Radio

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 19, 2026 40:00 Transcription Available


In this episode we answer emails from Kelly and Jose (Joe).  We discuss simple spreadsheet applications for organizing portfolios, review a planned risk-parity style portfolio, discuss issues with transitioning and international fund choices and proportions, and why you should not fear "high market valuations" because risk-parity portfolios already solve for that exact problem, unlike simplistic large-cap weighted portfolios.  In fact, that is one of the main reasons risk-parity style portfolios make for better retirement portfolios with higher safe withdrawal rates.Links:Father McKenna Center Donation Page (please mention Risk Parity Radio in the comment section with your donation):  Donate - Father McKenna CenterRisk Parity Chronicles Free Portfolio Tracker and Explanatory Video:  How to use the RPC Capital Efficient Portfolio TrackerAfford Anything Risk Parity Portfolio Blueprint:  Afford Anything frank-vasquez-risk-parity-portfolio-BluePrint.pdf - Google DriveJeremy Grantham on the Long-View Podcast:  Jeremy Grantham ‘Almost Everything Looks More Attractive Than the US Equity Market' - YouTubeF. Vasquez EconoMe 2025 Slide Presentation:  F. Vasquez EconoMe 2025 Presentation.pdf - Google DriveBreathless Unedited AI-Bot Summary:Retiring soon and staring at market charts that look “too high” can mess with your head, even if your plan is solid. We hear that anxiety loud and clear in today's mailbag, and we respond with what actually helps: better visibility across accounts, clear asset allocation targets, and a process you can follow when emotions spike.First, we tackle the nuts-and-bolts problem almost every DIY investor hits: holdings scattered across IRAs, 401(k)s, and a taxable brokerage account. We share a simple way to track everything on one page using a Google Sheet that updates prices automatically, and we talk about how AI tools like Gemini NotebookLM can organize raw account statements into a clean spreadsheet, even adding details like unrealized capital gains. The point is not fancy software, it's seeing your true portfolio mix so you can rebalance with confidence and avoid constant tinkering.Then we get into portfolio construction: equity levels that feel conservative vs aggressive in a risk parity style setup, when Treasury bond exposure may be on the high side, and how to think about diversifiers like gold (GLDM) and managed futures (DBMF). We also answer practical questions about VTI and VXUS, whether adding a dedicated growth fund matters, and how to split small cap value between AVUV and AVDV without over-optimizing.Finally, we address the big fear: what happens if you invest or rebalance near all-time highs right before retirement? We walk through why a diversified risk parity style portfolio can reduce peak-valuation risk, how safe withdrawal rates look when you test retirement start dates near major market peaks, and why a written execution plan often beats trying to time the perfect day. If this helped, subscribe, share the show with a friend who's nearing retirement, and leave us a review on your podcast app.Support the show

Lever Time
This Bernie Organizer Is Coming For A “DeSantis Democrat”

Lever Time

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 13, 2026 39:21


Oliver Larkin spent a decade battling the Democratic Party's campaign machine as an organizer for candidates like Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.). Now, in Florida's Aug. 18 primary, he's a democratic socialist going up against Rep. Jared Moskowitz (D-Fla.) — who once called himself a “twice-appointed, Ron DeSantis Democrat.”  Moskowitz claims Larkin is running against him “solely on my religion.” He has also vastly outraised Larkin, thanks in part to support from AIPAC affiliates and pro-AI super PACs. But just this week, Larkin's campaign reached the milestone of raising $1 million without the help of corporate money. Does this mean the insurgent has a shot?  Today on Lever Time, David Sirota speaks with Larkin about the antisemitism allegations, the Democratic Party's corporate money problem, and why he thinks Democrats keep losing in Florida. Want comprehensive 2026 midterm coverage? Check out The Lever's new weekly newsletter, ⁠Midterm Madness⁠, for election updates, analysis, and more. Get ad-free episodes, bonus content and extended interviews by becoming a member at ⁠levernews.com/join⁠. To leave a tip for The Lever, ⁠click here⁠. It helps us do this kind of independent journalism. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

DENNIS ANYONE? with Dennis Hensley
Noho Gym Co-Owner and Toluca Lake Pride Organizer J.P. Batista ("No One's Really Like Super In Shape Here!")

DENNIS ANYONE? with Dennis Hensley

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 13, 2026 55:31


In this episode, Dennis speaks via Zoom with J.P. Batista, co-owner of the relatively new and proudly gay NoHo Gym in North Hollywood. J.P. talks why, after years as a personal trainer, he decided to open his own gym, what has surprised him about the experience and his advice to other entrepreneurs with dreams of starting their own businesses. He also talks about the last-minute Pride Festival he spear-headed in Toluca Lake Pride Festival in June and the overwhelmingly positive response he got from it. Other topics include: why he decided to proudly fly two rainbow flags outside the gym, the gym's official mascot Joe the poodle, gay pool party dynamics, fitness culture in the LGBTQ+ community, the use of GLP-1 medications, the role of social media in building a new business and why he loves folding the gym's towels and refilling the water jugs sooooo much. https://www.nohogym.com/

Antonia Gonzales
Tuesday, August 11, 2026

Antonia Gonzales

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 11, 2026 4:59


Photo: Carlson Center in Fairbanks, Alaska will host the 2028 Arctic Winter Games. (Quintin Soloviev / Wikimedia) The Arctic Winter Games International Committee has chosen Fairbanks, Alaska to host the games in 2028. Organizers chose to buck an April decision that would have moved to a three-year cycle temporarily. The announcement means the next Arctic Winter Games, which had been set for 2029, will happen a year earlier than was planned. A statement from the committee's president says an “extraordinary” proposal from Fairbanks this spring made it possible to return to the traditional two-year cycle. “Working with the Fairbanks North Star Borough, the Fairbanks North Star Borough School District, the State of Alaska, and numerous community partners, the Host Society demonstrated the community’s readiness to host the Games.” The international competition brings together about 2,000 youth participants from across the Circumpolar North, including Alaska, Canada, and Nordic countries. The multi-sport event and Indigenous cultural celebration started in 1970 and features sports like hockey, skiing, and curling as well as Dene games, such as the finger pull and snow snake. The competition took place in Whitehorse, Canada last winter. It was last hosted in Alaska in the Matanuska-Susitna Borough in 2024. The games have come to Fairbanks three times – twice in the 1980s and again in 2014. The Northwest Territories had been slated to host the 2028 iteration of the event, but withdrew its bid in 2024. Its Municipal and Community Affairs Minister cited reasons like insufficient capacity and facilities, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation reported at the time. (Courtesy Tohono O'odham Nation) Over the weekend, a tribe in southern Arizona warned that border wall contractors may soon encroach upon their lands. As KJZZ's Gabriel Pietrorazio reports, the tribe says it is ready to deal with trespassers. According to the Tohono O'odham Code, the tribe may impose up to a $5,000 fine for civil trespassing. Tribal police would escort any offender off the reservation sharing a 62-mile boundary with Mexico. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security, led by Secretary Markwayne Mullin (Cherokee) is looking to erect a border wall there. The Tohono O'odham Nation has sued, claiming its sovereignty would be violated should the Trump administration be allowed to proceed. While Customs and Border Protection is aware of the tribe's warning, the federal agency declined to comment due to ongoing litigation. Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument in Utah. (Courtesy U.S. Bureau of Land Management) Native Tribes and conservation groups are preparing to sue the Trump administration after the president signed orders to sharply reduce the size of two national monuments in Utah. Mark Richardson has details. Republicans are celebrating the move, while Tribes and environmentalists say it strips protections from culturally significant public lands. Gov. Spencer Cox (R-UT) and Utah’s congressional delegation joined the president to celebrate the signing of the orders. Steve Bloch, legal director for the Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance, calls conservatives’ vision for the state’s wildlands “wrong-headed”. “(U.S. Sen.) Mike Lee (R-UT)’s vision of the American West is not one with sweeping federal public lands. His view of the American West is Utah and other western states should be the South Carolina of the West, with almost no public land.” President Trump reduced the area of the Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monuments by about three million acres from their current boundaries – roughly 90% of the original protected area. Polling shows that 65% of Utah voters support keeping Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante protected as national monuments. Utah Republicans have long pushed to reduce or eliminate the two national monuments to allow mining and other economic development on the land. President Donald Trump speaks at the Utah State Capitol in 2017 before issuing a proclamation reducing boundaries for the Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments. Trump first reduced the monuments in 2017 during his first term, but President Joe Biden restored the areas. Bloch says he believes Trump is misinformed about the value of the monuments. “I think he really didn’t know what he was talking about. The line that everybody is hooked into that, as he understood it, you couldn’t hunt, fish, or walk in the monuments, and that is so demonstrably false.” The Bears Ears Inter-Tribal Coalition, formed by the Hopi, Zuni, Ute Mountain Ute, Navajo Nation and Ute Tribes, called it a major setback to an extraordinary collaboration on public lands between Tribal Nations and federal agencies. Bloch says it was a bitter pill for the tribes to swallow. “The tribes are angry. They are really disappointed. It’s just a lot of pain from yet another attempt by the nation to try and undo their footprint.” Get National Native News delivered to your inbox daily. Sign up for our daily newsletter today. Download our NV1 Android or iOs App for breaking news alerts. Check out today’s Native America Calling episode Tuesday, August 11, 2026 — Tribes face record-setting wildfire destruction

The Way of The Wolf
294: From Panels to Keynotes: The Real Path to Becoming a Speaker | JD Miller & Sean Barnes

The Way of The Wolf

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 11, 2026 34:36


Most people who want to speak on stage have no idea how the first step actually happens. JD Miller does. He is the CEO of the James Duane Group and SVP at CyberRisk Alliance, he runs events across the country, and he decides who gets a microphone and who does not. In this conversation, Sean Barnes and JD break down the real progression from nobody to keynote speaker. It starts with a phone and a tripod in your living room. It moves to a panel seat, then a fireside chat, then a short session, then the keynote. JD explains what he checks on LinkedIn before he books anyone, why he intentionally gives first-time speakers a slot, and why the ask should never come in the first conversation. They also get into why copying another speaker sets you up to fail, how one recorded conversation turns into a dozen assets, and why picking one platform beats being everywhere. Sean shares the six years he spoke for free and the mistake he made telling organizers he could talk about anything. JD shares the night he literally fell off the back of a stage and why it helped him. If you are an executive who wants a bigger voice and does not know where to start, this is the roadmap.   Key Moments 0:09 - How Sean and JD first met, and why the connection stuck 1:05 - JD's path: church announcements, sports anchor, thousands of broadcasts, hundreds of podcasts 2:21 - Sean's story: extreme introvert to keynote speaker, and why people do not believe it 2:51 - You can be a public speaker no matter where you land on the introvert scale 3:36 - Toastmasters, improv, and practicing into a microphone with nobody listening 4:19 - Why short-form clips train you to land the plane 5:39 - The worst thing you can do is compare yourself to someone with 30 years in 6:33 - Sean on speaking free for almost six years to get the reps 8:20 - The mistake of telling an organizer you can talk about anything 9:07 - Do not be the Cheesecake Factory of topics. Keep it small and specific 9:57 - How to actually get on a panel: build the network first 11:07 - Why JD books first-time speakers on purpose, and where he places them 12:27 - Build the relationship before you make the ask 13:14 - The QR code badge trick that removes friction 14:07 - Getting comfortable being uncomfortable 15:59 - Stage skills carry straight into the boardroom 16:14 - The extrovert's hardest lesson: let silence breathe 17:03 - Eye contact as a signal, on a panel and in a meeting 18:18 - How JD opens a room and gets an audience leaning forward 20:16 - Do not copy your mentor. Borrow traits and make them yours 22:32 - Document everything and build social proof 23:41 - What JD checks before he agrees to book someone 24:20 - One piece of content is really 12 pieces of content 26:08 - Know where your audience lives and stop trying to be everywhere 27:50 - The 4-1-1 approach to posting 29:11 - Be patient, and find a mentor who has done it 30:17 - Failure stories, including the time JD fell off the stage 31:31 - When you fumble, keep moving and never apologize 32:43 - The full path, start to keynote, in one recap 33:13 - Where to find JD   Key Takeaways Start smaller than you think you should. A phone on a tripod, a panel seat in the corner, four people in a room. Reps come before pay, and for Sean that meant roughly six years of speaking for free. Own one topic, not every topic. Telling an organizer you can speak on anything pushes the work onto them and cheapens your brand. A narrow, specific topic makes you easy to book. Build the relationship before the ask. Organizers check your LinkedIn for a voice and a track record before anything else. Show up, connect, create content, then ask next year.   Podcast Show Notes – Episode 294 | 08.11.2026 Episode Title: From Panels to Keynotes: The Real Path to Becoming a Speaker | JD Miller & Sean Barnes   Guest: JD Miller CEO, James Duane Group SVP, CyberRisk Alliance LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jdwaynemiller/ Website: https://www.jamesdwayne.com/   Host: Sean Barnes Wolf Executives, Houston, TX   Website: https://www.wolfexecutives.com   https://www.seanbarnes.com   LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/seanbarnes/ https://www.linkedin.com/company/wolfexecutives https://www.linkedin.com/company/thewayofthewolf/ LinkedIn Newsletter: https://www.linkedin.com/newsletters/7284600567593684993/   Twitter: https://x.com/seanbarnes https://x.com/wolfexecutives   Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/the_seanbarnes https://www.instagram.com/wolfexecutives   TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@the_seanbarnes   Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/theseanbarnes

Northern Light
ICE documentary & NY law ruling, Schroon Lake film night

Northern Light

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 10, 2026 33:32


(Aug 10, 2026) A new documentary from Vermont Public re-examines what happened on the March day when local and state police and ICE clashed with protesters on a busy street in South Burlington; plus, a federal judge has issued a split ruling on New York's laws for federal immigration agents; and, you're invited to a film screening of the musical “1776” tonight in Schroon Lake in honor of America's 250th anniversary. Organizers are hoping it will help you grapple with some of the complicated parts of the country's founding.

Conservative News & Right Wing News | Gun Laws & Rights News Site
Italians Fed Up – CRPA Fights On – Good Guys Vs Bad Guy

Conservative News & Right Wing News | Gun Laws & Rights News Site

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 7, 2026 3:37


Rome Marchers Demand Remigration as Italy's Immigration Debate Intensifies Several thousand demonstrators marched in Rome behind a “Remigration and Reconquest” campaign calling for stricter borders, illegal migrant returns and a broader reversal of Italy's mass-immigration model. Organizers said the initiative has collected about 50,000 signatures in support of the proposal, while other reports cited more than 150,000. Supporters said the campaign has reached the threshold needed to force Italy's political class to address the issue directly. The proposal includes incentives for voluntary returns, deportations of illegal immigrants and stricter integration requirements for foreign nationals seeking to remain in Italy. Its... View Article

Talking Sh*t With Tara Cheyenne
Episode 67 - Interview with Grace Salez (Artist, Educator, Community Organizer) PART ONE

Talking Sh*t With Tara Cheyenne

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 5, 2026 63:06


Show notes below: Talking Shit With Tara Cheyenne is a Tara Cheyenne Performance Production www.taracheyenne.com Instagram: @TaraCheyenneTCP  /  FB: https://www.facebook.com/taracheyenneperformance Podcast produced, edited and music by Marc Stewart marc@taracheyenne.com © 2026 Tara Cheyenne Performance   Subscribe/follow share through Podbean and Google Podcasts and Apple Podcasts and Spotify.   Donate! To keep this podcast ad-free please go to:  https://www.canadahelps.org/en/dn/13386   About Grace:   Grace Salez is a multimedia artist living and working as an uninvited guest on the traditional homelands of the Lekwungen (Esquimalt and Songhees) and WSÁNEĆ speaking peoples. Her early practice focused on short personal narratives in film and video. Today, her public performances engage pedestrians in daily spaces, inviting them to reflect on and question what they witness. Since 2010, Grace has been a member of Open Action, a performance collaborative meeting monthly across Greater Victoria. She also collaborates with Judith Price on FOLDING—now in its sixth iteration—creating performance actions that reflect on domestic labour and women. Unconstrained by any single medium, Grace constantly explores, experiments, and observes to contribute to the conversation of the human experience. Her work has been exhibited locally, nationally, and internationally. About Tara:   Tara Cheyenne Friedenberg, is an award winning creator, performer, choreographer, director, writer, and artistic director of Tara Cheyenne Performance, working across disciplines in film, dance, theatre, and experimental performance. She is renowned as a trailblazer in interdisciplinary performance and as a mighty performer "who defies categorization on any level". Along with her own creations Tara has collaborated with many theatre companies and artists including; Zee Zee Theatre, Bard on the Beach, ItsaZoo Theatre, The Arts Club, Boca De Lupo, Ruby Slippers, The Firehall Arts Centre, Vertigo Theatre (Calgary).  With a string of celebrated solo shows to her credit (including bANGER, Goggles, Porno Death Cult, I can't remember the word for I can't remember, Body Parts, Pants), multidisciplinary collaborations, commissions and boundary bending ensemble creations Tara's work is celebrated both nationally and internationally.  Tara is known for her unique and dynamic hybrid of dance, comedy and theatre. She is sought after for creating innovative movement for theatre and has performed her full length solos and ensemble works around the world (highlights: DanceBase/Edinburgh, South Bank Centre/London, On the Boards/Seattle USA, High Performance Rodeo/Calgary etc.). Recent works include a collaboration with Italian dance/performance artist Silvia Gribaudi, empty.swimming.pool, (Castiglioncello, Bassano, Victoria and Vancouver), ensemble creation, how to be,  which premiered at The Cultch, and her solo I can't remember the word for I can't remember, toured widely, and her newest solo Body Parts has been made into a stunning film which is currently touring virtually. Tara lives on the unceded Coast Salish territories with her partner composer Marc Stewart and their child. 

The Most Dramatic Podcast Ever with Chris Harrison
“Bra Doping” Allegations at Tour de France; Organizers Inspecting Athletes For Padded Sports Bras

The Most Dramatic Podcast Ever with Chris Harrison

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 4, 2026 30:22 Transcription Available


Never saw this story coming, but there are additional “clothing checks” happening at the Women’s Tour de France this week. After complaints that some women may be using extra padding in their sports bras for an aerodynamic advantage, race organizers confirmed the new inspections. Who knew, but using padded bras, aka “chest fairing," aka “bra doping," can give riders a few seconds of advantage and is prohibited by the International Cycling Union.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Amy and T.J. Podcast
“Bra Doping” Allegations at Tour de France; Organizers Inspecting Athletes For Padded Sports Bras

Amy and T.J. Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 4, 2026 30:22 Transcription Available


Never saw this story coming, but there are additional “clothing checks” happening at the Women’s Tour de France this week. After complaints that some women may be using extra padding in their sports bras for an aerodynamic advantage, race organizers confirmed the new inspections. Who knew, but using padded bras, aka “chest fairing," aka “bra doping," can give riders a few seconds of advantage and is prohibited by the International Cycling Union.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

How Men Think with Brooks Laich & Gavin DeGraw
“Bra Doping” Allegations at Tour de France; Organizers Inspecting Athletes For Padded Sports Bras

How Men Think with Brooks Laich & Gavin DeGraw

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 4, 2026 30:22 Transcription Available


Never saw this story coming, but there are additional “clothing checks” happening at the Women’s Tour de France this week. After complaints that some women may be using extra padding in their sports bras for an aerodynamic advantage, race organizers confirmed the new inspections. Who knew, but using padded bras, aka “chest fairing," aka “bra doping," can give riders a few seconds of advantage and is prohibited by the International Cycling Union.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Rachel Goes Rogue
“Bra Doping” Allegations at Tour de France; Organizers Inspecting Athletes For Padded Sports Bras

Rachel Goes Rogue

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 4, 2026 30:22 Transcription Available


Never saw this story coming, but there are additional “clothing checks” happening at the Women’s Tour de France this week. After complaints that some women may be using extra padding in their sports bras for an aerodynamic advantage, race organizers confirmed the new inspections. Who knew, but using padded bras, aka “chest fairing," aka “bra doping," can give riders a few seconds of advantage and is prohibited by the International Cycling Union.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Illinois News Now
Wake Up Tri-Counties Samantha Talks Cyclosporiasis, Blood Drive, and National Night Out

Illinois News Now

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 4, 2026 11:25


Samantha Rux joined Ken Peel on Wake Up Tri-Counties to discuss cyclosporiasis, blood drive, and National Night Out. OSF St. Luke Medical Center is urging residents to take precautions amid a Midwest spike in cyclosporiasis, a foodborne illness caused by a parasite often linked to contaminated produce. Samantha Rux says symptoms can include diarrhea, appetite loss, weight loss, cramping, bloating, and dehydration, with illness appearing anywhere from two days to two weeks after exposure. Health officials recommend washing produce, choosing whole-head lettuce over pre-chopped kits, discarding outer leaves, and cleaning hands, utensils, and prep surfaces. OSF will also take part in National Night Out at Northeast Park on August 4th and will host an Impact Life blood drive on August 6th. An ImpactLife blood drive is coming up Thursday, August 6th, at OSF HealthCare Saint Luke Medical Center, offering local donors a chance to help save lives with a simple appointment. The drive runs from 7 AM to 5 PM in the East/West Conference Room. Organizers say blood donations remain vital for hospitals and patients who rely on a steady supply for emergencies, surgeries, cancer treatments, and other medical needs. Donors are encouraged to schedule ahead and arrive prepared with identification, a good meal, and plenty of water. Appointments and details are available online or by calling 309-852-7810.

WUWM News
Two music lovers head to Eaux Claires festival for the first time

WUWM News

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 4, 2026 14:30


Eaux Claires, the music festival, returned to Wisconsin after an eight-year hiatus. Organizers, including Bon Iver frontman Justin Vernon, pulled together national artists, some with deep ties to the Chippewa Valley.

Radio Boston
Thousands of cyclists pedal across Massachusetts for the Pan-Mass Challenge

Radio Boston

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 2, 2026 3:51


Organizers of the Pan-Mass Challenge held this weekend hoped to raise 79 million dollars for cancer research and care at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. Nearly 65-hundred cyclists took part. Rachel Marshall rode to honor her late father.

90 Miles From Needles with Chris Clarke and Alicia Pike

Border-wall contractors have destroyed three ancient Fremont cottonwoods in the tiny community of Lochiel, Arizona. The trees, estimated to be 200 to 250 years old, stood within the path of two proposed 30-foot border walls through the San Rafael Valley. One landmark cottonwood remains—and activists have occupied it in what may be the first tree sit organized against border-wall construction. Kate Scott joins Chris Clarke from the Casita de la Esperanza, the activists’ base in the former Lochiel port of entry. She describes the destruction of the cottonwoods, the birds and other wildlife that depended upon them, and concerns that construction continued despite evidence of active nests. She also explains why activists are demanding that the remaining tree be spared and the proposed secondary wall be stopped. The fight is about more than one tree. For Scott and her fellow organizers, the surviving cottonwood represents the ecological richness, cultural history, and cross-border relationships threatened by wall construction throughout the Arizona–Sonora borderlands. Episode image modified from a photo by the Center for Biological Diversity Key Takeaways Contractors destroyed three of Lochiel’s four landmark cottonwoods to clear space for border-wall construction. Activists are occupying the remaining tree and calling for the proposed secondary wall through Lochiel to be abandoned. The cottonwoods provided habitat for barn owls, flickers, kingbirds, insects, and other wildlife; Scott also reports hearing a threatened yellow-billed cuckoo. Scott says Customs and Border Protection had promised protections for active bird nests, but activists saw no meaningful environmental monitoring during the removal. Organizers are using direct action alongside art, music, ceremony, and public gatherings to defend the San Rafael Valley. The wall threatens not only wildlife movement but also a historic border community, neighboring ranchland in Sonora, and potentially significant archaeological resources. Notable Quotes “We do not want a double wall through this historic community.” “Each one [of the cottonwoods is] unique—a universe in and of itself.” “This is not a crossing point. This is a wildlife migratory corridor.” “We’re not taking this anymore. We’re making our stand here.” “Don’t obey in advance.” Resources Rally for the Valley Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rallyforthevalley/ GiveButter Donation Link: https://givebutter.com/stop-destruction-in-lochiel-oxsxdpBecome a desert defender!: https://90milesfromneedles.com/donateSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

WTTS In Conversation
Pickin' in The Backwoods with organizer Justin Jett

WTTS In Conversation

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 31, 2026 4:20


Justin sits down with Matt Pelsor to talk about the annual 3-day music festival at eXplore Brown County August 20th-22nd.Learn more...

Basketball Coach Unplugged ( A Basketball Coaching Podcast)
Ep 1983 Office Hours & The TeachHoops Laboratory: Scaling Your Program's Architecture ( Part 2 )

Basketball Coach Unplugged ( A Basketball Coaching Podcast)

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 30, 2026 31:50


https://teachhoops.com/ If you look at the landscape of modern coaching development, you will see a massive sea of isolation. Head coaches spend late nights sitting in empty gym offices, staring at raw tape, trying to solve complex spatial spacing leaks, assistant staff alignment issues, and parent boundary friction entirely on their own. They download random drills off social media, try to force-feed them into a 120-minute practice script on Tuesday afternoon, and then wonder why their team's execution feels clunky, robotic, and disconnected when Friday night arrives. In a level 4 transformational program, you do not coach in a vacuum. True program builders don't rely on guesswork—they rely on a structured laboratory, direct mentorship, and a collaborative ecosystem designed to audit every square inch of their operational blueprint. In this episode of Coach Unplugged, recorded live at 5th Quarter Studios in Madison, Wisconsin, Coach Collins pulls back the curtain on two of the highest-leverage assets available inside TeachHoops.com: our weekly live Office Hours and the interactive TeachHoops Discussion Forums. Discover how jumping into a direct socratic round-table with masterclass coaches will help you clean up your practice Activity Density, optimize your team's game-night Effective Field Goal Percentage ($eFG%$), and transition your culture out of coach-fed compliance and into an unshakeable, player-led powerhouse. When you plug your program into a live collaborative network, you replace trial-and-error with high-signal, diagnostic clarity: The Blueprint: Office Hours isn't a passive webinar where you sit back and listen to a two-hour lecture. It is a live, high-signal consulting session. You bring your actual tape, your specific practice scripts, and your exact roster bottlenecks directly to the table. The Diagnostic: Whether you are wrestling with how to corrupt a static shooting drill into a live closeout reader, or trying to deploy your staff lenses—balancing The Organizer, The Yoda, and The Antagonist—we break down the problem on the spot. We deliver rapid, 60-second "drive-by" solutions that you can implement in your gym tomorrow afternoon. The Blueprint: The TeachHoops community forum serves as your program's 24/7 research and development wing. When you encounter a toxic parent boundary breach, a shifting upperclassman who has lost their Next Play Speed, or a complex defensive trapping shell like a 1-3-1 or Match-Up Zone that isn't rotating cleanly, you post the scenario. The Return: Within hours, veteran program builders step up to share tested frameworks, socratic constraint layouts, and exact communication scripts. You leave with an immediate blueprint designed to protect your program's Standard of Tolerance. We don't audit practice scripts during Office Hours just to make your dry-erase board look pretty. We put every single offensive entry, small-sided game ($SSG$), and spatial spacing track through a strict mathematical filter to maximize your team's Effective Field Goal Percentage ($eFG%$): When you bring your game data into the TeachHoops discussion, we analyze your shot selection geometry, identify high-volume Multi-Ball rep density fixes, and ensure your daily practice architecture is directly driving high-efficiency scoring through the exhaust. Coach's Note: "The loneliest place in sports is trying to figure out every single piece of the coaching puzzle by yourself. If you are serious about winning more, stressing less, and building a program you are genuinely proud of, you need to get out of your own head and step into the room with coaches who have walked the path. Join us for Office Hours, jump into the TeachHoops discussions, bring your actual problems, and let's build a masterclass standard together. Stop guessing—start building." Title Ideas: Stop Coaching in Isolation! (How TeachHoops Office Hours Fixes Your Program) How to Audit Your Basketball Practice Plan with Live Coaching Mentorship Inside the TeachHoops Laboratory: Solving Culture & Tactical Leaks Fast Why the Best Basketball Coaches Use Mastermind Groups to Win More Games Primary Keywords: Teachhoops.com discussion, Coach Collins office hours, basketball coaching mentorship, TeachHoops, basketball program consulting, high school basketball practice design audit, standard of tolerance. Secondary Keywords: Effective Field Goal Percentage analytics, next play speed resilience, own the room coaching language, rep density basketball drills, coaching staff lenses, socratic coaching constraints, Types of Coaches (3).pdf, player-led team autonomy. Description Snippet: "Are you tired of sitting in an empty gym office late at night trying to solve all your team's spacing, culture, and practice bottlenecks by yourself? In this podcast episode, Coach Collins breaks down the massive, game-changing value of TeachHoops.com live Office Hours and community discussions. Discover how direct mentorship, socratic drill audits, and collaborative problem-solving can help you clean up your practice activity density and build an elite, player-led powerhouse." Suggested Tags: #BasketballCoaching #TeachHoops #CoachCollins #CoachingMentorship #ProgramBuilding #PracticeDesign #TeamCulture #SportsLeadership #HighSchoolBasketball Are you looking to jump into our next live Office Hours session this July to help refine your off-season summer tournament film filters, or are you preparing a topic for the TeachHoops discussion forums to help restructure your assistant coaching workflows before official fall onboarding begins? Show NotesThe Developmental Pipeline: Isolated Guessing vs. The TeachHoops Lab [ISOLATED GUESSING] ──► Random Internet Drills ──► Low Rep Density ──► Robotic Compliance [TEACHHOOPS LAB] ──► Office Hours Audit ──► Socratic SSGs ──► Player-Led Autonomy 1. Live Office Hours: The Weekly "Truth Room"2. The Discussion Community: Real-Time Socratic FeedbackThe Analytical Target: Optimizing $eFG%$ Through Collaborative Strategy$$eFG% = frac{text{FGM} + (0.5 times text{3PM})}{text{FGA}}$$The Program Audit: The Isolated Coach vs. The Connected ArchitectProgram WorkflowThe Isolated Coach (Level 2 Leak)The Connected Architect (Level 4 Standard)Problem SolvingGuessing in an empty office; copying viral drillsLive diagnostic audits during weekly Office HoursPractice DesignLine bottlenecks; low Activity Density; long lecturesMulti-Ball architectures; socratic SSG constraintsStaff AlignmentAssistant coaches acting like quiet baseline spectatorsStaff deployed through distinct organizational lensesCulture ExecutionCoach-Fed micro-management; joystick callsPlayer-Led autonomy; athletes owning the roomYouTube SEO Strategy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Girls Gone Deep
183: Confessions of an Orgy Organizer Part 2: Water Sports, Pool Orgasms, Double Penetration & More feat. Bossy

Girls Gone Deep

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 30, 2026 64:19


This week, Elle and Vee welcome back everyone's favorite unfiltered guest, Bossy, to play the card game of WHOREible Life. Be a fly on the wall as you listen to a fully detailed tell all episode. They dive into sex in a dirty ass pool, pee play, squirting, period sex, double penetration, embarrassing firsts, and why the most taboo conversations often lead to the biggest breakthroughs. It's hilarious, unexpectedly educational, and exactly the kind of late-night conversation you probably wish you were sitting in on.CHAPTERS00:00 – We Accidentally Turned This Into a Water Sports Episode01:10 – Sex in a Swimming Pool... Does That Actually Work?07:05 – From Pee Play to Pleasure: Falling in Love with Water Sports17:43  – Period Sex: Hot or Hard Pass?21:00 – Does Your Cycle Change Your Sex Drive?23:00 – The Truth About IUDs, Implants, and Why Nobody Warns Women28:00 – The Psychedelic That Unexpectedly Unlocked Squirting33:45  – Our Best Hotel Sex Hack35:05  – We Finally Tried Double Penetration38:30  – Cucking Confession39:10 – Why Watching Your Partner with Someone Else Can Be Incredibly Hot44:15 – WHOREible Life  3 card draw: Shag Marry DieBe  fucked by someone else with a strap on dildoRide someones faceGive foot worship or toe sucking48:40 –WHOREible Life  3 card draw: Shag Marry DieFuck in a sex swing MFM ThreesomeTittie Slapping______________

Basketball Coach Unplugged ( A Basketball Coaching Podcast)
Ep 1982 Office Hours & The TeachHoops Laboratory: Scaling Your Program's Architecture ( Part 1 )

Basketball Coach Unplugged ( A Basketball Coaching Podcast)

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 29, 2026 29:19


https://teachhoops.com/ If you look at the landscape of modern coaching development, you will see a massive sea of isolation. Head coaches spend late nights sitting in empty gym offices, staring at raw tape, trying to solve complex spatial spacing leaks, assistant staff alignment issues, and parent boundary friction entirely on their own. They download random drills off social media, try to force-feed them into a 120-minute practice script on Tuesday afternoon, and then wonder why their team's execution feels clunky, robotic, and disconnected when Friday night arrives. In a level 4 transformational program, you do not coach in a vacuum. True program builders don't rely on guesswork—they rely on a structured laboratory, direct mentorship, and a collaborative ecosystem designed to audit every square inch of their operational blueprint. In this episode of Coach Unplugged, recorded live at 5th Quarter Studios in Madison, Wisconsin, Coach Collins pulls back the curtain on two of the highest-leverage assets available inside TeachHoops.com: our weekly live Office Hours and the interactive TeachHoops Discussion Forums. Discover how jumping into a direct socratic round-table with masterclass coaches will help you clean up your practice Activity Density, optimize your team's game-night Effective Field Goal Percentage ($eFG%$), and transition your culture out of coach-fed compliance and into an unshakeable, player-led powerhouse. When you plug your program into a live collaborative network, you replace trial-and-error with high-signal, diagnostic clarity: The Blueprint: Office Hours isn't a passive webinar where you sit back and listen to a two-hour lecture. It is a live, high-signal consulting session. You bring your actual tape, your specific practice scripts, and your exact roster bottlenecks directly to the table. The Diagnostic: Whether you are wrestling with how to corrupt a static shooting drill into a live closeout reader, or trying to deploy your staff lenses—balancing The Organizer, The Yoda, and The Antagonist—we break down the problem on the spot. We deliver rapid, 60-second "drive-by" solutions that you can implement in your gym tomorrow afternoon. The Blueprint: The TeachHoops community forum serves as your program's 24/7 research and development wing. When you encounter a toxic parent boundary breach, a shifting upperclassman who has lost their Next Play Speed, or a complex defensive trapping shell like a 1-3-1 or Match-Up Zone that isn't rotating cleanly, you post the scenario. The Return: Within hours, veteran program builders step up to share tested frameworks, socratic constraint layouts, and exact communication scripts. You leave with an immediate blueprint designed to protect your program's Standard of Tolerance. We don't audit practice scripts during Office Hours just to make your dry-erase board look pretty. We put every single offensive entry, small-sided game ($SSG$), and spatial spacing track through a strict mathematical filter to maximize your team's Effective Field Goal Percentage ($eFG%$): When you bring your game data into the TeachHoops discussion, we analyze your shot selection geometry, identify high-volume Multi-Ball rep density fixes, and ensure your daily practice architecture is directly driving high-efficiency scoring through the exhaust. Coach's Note: "The loneliest place in sports is trying to figure out every single piece of the coaching puzzle by yourself. If you are serious about winning more, stressing less, and building a program you are genuinely proud of, you need to get out of your own head and step into the room with coaches who have walked the path. Join us for Office Hours, jump into the TeachHoops discussions, bring your actual problems, and let's build a masterclass standard together. Stop guessing—start building." Title Ideas: Stop Coaching in Isolation! (How TeachHoops Office Hours Fixes Your Program) How to Audit Your Basketball Practice Plan with Live Coaching Mentorship Inside the TeachHoops Laboratory: Solving Culture & Tactical Leaks Fast Why the Best Basketball Coaches Use Mastermind Groups to Win More Games Primary Keywords: Teachhoops.com discussion, Coach Collins office hours, basketball coaching mentorship, TeachHoops, basketball program consulting, high school basketball practice design audit, standard of tolerance. Secondary Keywords: Effective Field Goal Percentage analytics, next play speed resilience, own the room coaching language, rep density basketball drills, coaching staff lenses, socratic coaching constraints, Types of Coaches (3).pdf, player-led team autonomy. Description Snippet: "Are you tired of sitting in an empty gym office late at night trying to solve all your team's spacing, culture, and practice bottlenecks by yourself? In this podcast episode, Coach Collins breaks down the massive, game-changing value of TeachHoops.com live Office Hours and community discussions. Discover how direct mentorship, socratic drill audits, and collaborative problem-solving can help you clean up your practice activity density and build an elite, player-led powerhouse." Suggested Tags: #BasketballCoaching #TeachHoops #CoachCollins #CoachingMentorship #ProgramBuilding #PracticeDesign #TeamCulture #SportsLeadership #HighSchoolBasketball Are you looking to jump into our next live Office Hours session this July to help refine your off-season summer tournament film filters, or are you preparing a topic for the TeachHoops discussion forums to help restructure your assistant coaching workflows before official fall onboarding begins? Show NotesThe Developmental Pipeline: Isolated Guessing vs. The TeachHoops Lab [ISOLATED GUESSING] ──► Random Internet Drills ──► Low Rep Density ──► Robotic Compliance [TEACHHOOPS LAB] ──► Office Hours Audit ──► Socratic SSGs ──► Player-Led Autonomy 1. Live Office Hours: The Weekly "Truth Room"2. The Discussion Community: Real-Time Socratic FeedbackThe Analytical Target: Optimizing $eFG%$ Through Collaborative Strategy$$eFG% = frac{text{FGM} + (0.5 times text{3PM})}{text{FGA}}$$The Program Audit: The Isolated Coach vs. The Connected ArchitectProgram WorkflowThe Isolated Coach (Level 2 Leak)The Connected Architect (Level 4 Standard)Problem SolvingGuessing in an empty office; copying viral drillsLive diagnostic audits during weekly Office HoursPractice DesignLine bottlenecks; low Activity Density; long lecturesMulti-Ball architectures; socratic SSG constraintsStaff AlignmentAssistant coaches acting like quiet baseline spectatorsStaff deployed through distinct organizational lensesCulture ExecutionCoach-Fed micro-management; joystick callsPlayer-Led autonomy; athletes owning the roomYouTube SEO Strategy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The Real News Podcast
Baltimore Community Marches into 7-11 Where 74-Year-Old Was Brutally Beaten

The Real News Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 29, 2026 24:08 Transcription Available


A 7-11 on Liberty Heights Avenue in Northwest Baltimore, Maryland, has become a flashpoint of community rage and resistance after Ade Oba Tokunbo (Stephen King), a 74-year-old resident, was attacked and brutally beaten there by six teenagers on July 7, 2026. The same location is also the site of multiple robberies and the murder of Victorious Swift in March of 2017. In response, “A Clarion Call,” a new coalition of local community organizations and residents, organized a rally at the 7-11 on Sunday, July 26, and led a community march into the store to demand the company implement policies that will keep customers safe and aid in the apprehension of the youth responsible for the July 7 attack. In this on-the-ground report, TRNN takes you inside the community rally held at the 7-11, near Mondawmin Mall, on July 26. Watch the video version of this report here. Additional links/info:Organizers of A Clarion Call have set up a GoFundMe for Ade Oba Tokunbo and are asking community members to contact ClarionCallBaltimore[at]gmail[dot]com if they have any information about the perpetrators of the July 7.Renee Anderson, Mike Hellgren, CBS Baltimore, “New video shows 74-year-old attacked outside Baltimore 7-Eleven by group wielding sword, assault rifle”Credits:Production: Maximillian AlvarezPost-Production: Maximillian Alvarez, Cameron Granadino, David HebdenBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-real-news-podcast--2952221/support.Help us continue producing radically independent news and in-depth analysis by following us and becoming a monthly sustainer.Follow us on:Bluesky: @therealnews.comFacebook: The Real News NetworkTwitter: @TheRealNewsYouTube: @therealnewsInstagram: @therealnewsnetworkBecome a member and join the Supporters Club for The Real News Podcast today!

Kansas City Today
How do Kansas City organizers think the World Cup went?

Kansas City Today

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 28, 2026 14:21


The World Cup has come and gone in Kansas City. What could the city's success as a host city mean for future events?

Coaching Youth Hoops
Ep 356 Youth Parent Discussion

Coaching Youth Hoops

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 28, 2026 43:46


https://teachhoops.com/ If you step into the youth sports landscape today, you will find a massive amount of stress, anxiety, and operational friction originating entirely from the sideline. Many youth and high school coaches spend their nights completely exhausted, answering long, emotionally charged emails from parents questioning playing time, auditing rotational layouts, and debating tactical systems. We treat these adult conflicts reactively—waiting for a blow-up in the lobby after a tough weekend tournament loss before we finally scramble to address the friction. But when you step into the "Truth Room," you realize that a defensive, reactive posture with parents is a massive operational leak. True program builders don't hide from parents; they proactively establish an unyielding Standard of Tolerance before a single sneaker squeaks on the hardwood. In this episode, we unpack the transformative blueprint of The Youth Parent Interview. We discuss why running a mandatory, structured intake session with parents before the calendar begins is the ultimate tool to protect your program's shield. Discover how to balance personal care with upfront candor to align expectations, eliminate entitlement leaks, and ensure the adults in your ecosystem are supporting your player-led championship standard. To ensure that the sideline remains an asset to your culture rather than a source of toxic friction, you must put every family through a structured intake framework. The parent interview is not a casual chat; it is an organizational filter designed to establish three clear boundaries: The Blueprint: Use the interview to clearly define your program's transformational "Why." Explain to the parents that the hardwood is a high-friction laboratory designed to forge long-term Resilience Equity and character armor. Shifting their focus away from trailing metrics—like individual stat sheets or weekend tournament trophies—and anchoring them to their child's independent Decision IQ and Next Play Speed completely reframes how they view the season. The Blueprint: Lay down an uncompromised line regarding conflict management. You mandate a strict 24-Hour Rule: zero coaching conversations occur on game day, in the parking lot, or through the exhaust of a emotional loss. Furthermore, establish the protocol that if a player has a question about their role or developmental path, the player must step up, Own The Room, and initiate a socratic conversation with the coaching staff directly before the parents ever enter the equation. This moves the ecosystem out of coach-fed entitlement and into player-led maturity. The Blueprint: Introduce the parents to how your staff handles the gym. Explain the roles of your assistant coaches—how The Organizer polices the practice clock to maximize Activity Density, and how The Antagonist aggressively demands high-hands precision and mental toughness. When parents understand that tough, direct coaching in practice is a calculated act of belief designed to maximize the team's Effective Field Goal Percentage ($eFG%$), they stop misinterpreting competitive friction as personal criticism. Coach's Note: "Delayed candor with adults always increases the cost. If you don't have the courage to look a youth parent in the eye in July and tell them exactly how your program is run, what you tolerate, and how roles are earned, you have zero right to complain when they turn your sideline into a circus in January. True leadership means caring enough to set clear boundaries upfront. Protect your gym, align your adults, and build an environment where the kids can actually grow without the noise." Title Ideas: How to Run a Youth Basketball Parent Interview (The Culture Shield Blueprint) Stop Dealing With Angry Parents! How to Set Proactive Boundaries The Ultimate Pre-Season Parent Guide for Youth Basketball Coaches Why Elite Program Builders Interview Their Players' Parents Early Primary Keywords: Youth basketball parent interview, managing basketball parents culture, TeachHoops, Coach Collins, basketball program boundaries, high school basketball team culture, coach parent communication workflows. Secondary Keywords: Standard of tolerance, next play speed resilience, own the room vocabulary, active density practice scripts, Types of Coaches (3).pdf, effective field goal percentage focus, player-led team autonomy, 24-hour rule sports. Description Snippet: "Are you completely worn out by sideline drama, critical parent emails, and constant friction over playing time? In this podcast episode, Coach Collins breaks down the definitive organizational framework for running a proactive Youth Parent Interview. Discover how setting unyielding communication boundaries, managing expectations upfront, and aligning the adults with your transformational culture can save your season and protect your gym." Suggested Tags: #BasketballCoaching #TeachHoops #CoachCollins #ParentManagement #YouthSports #TeamCulture #SportsLeadership #HighSchoolBasketball #CoachingTips Are you utilizing this proactive interview framework to structure your upcoming mid-summer intake sessions for a new youth club organization you are launching this July, or are you looking to refine your varsity program's existing pre-season parent presentation to better protect your staff's standard of tolerance from sideline noise this winter? Show NotesThe Pre-Season Alignment Filter[THE PARENT INTERVIEW] │ ├─► Pillar 1: The 24-Hour Cool-Down Boundary (No Game-Night Confrontations) ├─► Pillar 2: The Transformational "Why" (Focus on Roster Growth over Stats) └─► Pillar 3: The Truth Room Protocol (Playing Time Conversations with the Player) 1. Defining the Transformational Pathway2. Establishing the Communication Protocols3. Aligning the Lenses on DevelopmentThe Structural Shift: Reactive Firefighting vs. Proactive IntakeRelational VariableThe Reactive Firefighter (Level 2 Leak)The Masterclass Proactive Leader (Level 4)Expectation SetupVague pre-season email; hoping everyone behavesMandatory 1-on-1 or small-group intake interviewsConflict ManagementDefensive parking-lot arguments after a tough lossEnforced 24-hour cool-down boundary and formal protocolsPlaying Time DialogueCoach fields angry late-night calls from parentsSocratic, player-led meetings driven by the athlete's tapeSideline EnergyAnxious, loud, and critical of officiating whistlesAligned, supportive, and anchored in Next Play SpeedYouTube SEO Strategy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Labor Radio
Secrets of a Successful Organizer - An Escalating Campaign

Labor Radio

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 28, 2026


featured Wiki of the Day
Silent Parade

featured Wiki of the Day

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 28, 2026 2:08


fWotD Episode 3371: Silent Parade Welcome to featured Wiki of the Day, your daily dose of knowledge from Wikipedia's finest articles.The featured article for Tuesday, 28 July 2026, is Silent Parade.The Negro Silent Protest Parade, commonly known as the Silent Parade, was a political protest in New York City on July 28, 1917. The primary objective of the march was to draw national attention to the widespread racial violence and entrenched systemic discrimination endured by African Americans. It was organized in direct response to a series of racially motivated attacks in 1916 and 1917, including the East St. Louis massacre and lynchings in Waco and Memphis.The parade was organized by a coalition of African American groups, led by the recently formed NAACP. Starting at 57th Street, the parade route proceeded down Fifth Avenue, ending at Madison Square. It was a silent procession, with an estimated 8,000 to 15,000 African American participants marching in protest, accompanied by a muffled drum beat.The event was widely publicized and drew attention to violence against African Americans. Organizers hoped the parade would prompt the federal government to enact anti-lynching legislation, but President Woodrow Wilson did not act on their demands. Federal legislation was required because Southern states often refused to prosecute lynchings under existing state statutes that outlawed murder, kidnapping, and assault. The federal government would not pass an anti-lynching law until 2022, when the Emmett Till Antilynching Act was passed.This recording reflects the Wikipedia text as of 01:10 UTC on Tuesday, 28 July 2026.For the full current version of the article, see Silent Parade on Wikipedia.This podcast uses content from Wikipedia under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License.Visit our archives at wikioftheday.com and subscribe to stay updated on new episodes.Follow us on Bluesky at @wikioftheday.com.Also check out Curmudgeon's Corner, a current events podcast.Until next time, I'm generative Ruth.

Up To Date
To organizers, hosting the World Cup set the Kansas City region up ‘to go do big things'

Up To Date

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 27, 2026 15:33


Kansas City hosted six matches over the course of the tournament, which was largely considered a success. Pam Kramer, CEO of KC2026, says Kansas City grew its reputation during the tournament.

A Republic, If You Can Keep It
Another War With Canada, Eh?

A Republic, If You Can Keep It

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 25, 2026 32:04


On our political radar this week… Canadian officials cut the ribbon today to herald Monday's scheduled opening of the Gordie Howe Bridge. Ontario Prime Minister Doug Ford spoke directly of the latest Trump assault on America's number one trading partner, saying “ Ontario will be ready to respond in any new American tariffs, will not back down, and will negotiate from a position of strength as a top trading partner, more than half of the United States.” Because of Trump's latest tariff tantrum no Americans were invited to the event. At recording time the Bridge is set to open for vehicular traffic on Monday. Instead of presiding at a joint ribbon cutting which had been planned for next Monday midway between Detroit and Windsor, Trump will be a few miles north for a campaign rally. His campaign visit: an admission that Michigan Democrats could flip 3 Republican-held seats in Congress. For Republican Senate candidate Mike Rogers, it could be a political nightmare. He'll have no choice but to join hands with a President whose approval rating is a pathetic 33 percent…and falling. On the Democratic side of the Senate race, Governor Whitmer has endorsed Haley Stevens. Polls show Stevens with a slight lead over Abdul El-Sayed … and El-Sayed drawing large crowds this last week at rallies featuring Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. But the endorsement comes with nearly 700-thousand absentee ballots already been received by local clerks, and another 1.2-million absentee ballots have been issued but not yet returned. Early in-person voting begins on tomorrow. Defense Secretary (and former Fox & Friends B-Team talker) Pete Hegseth took a trip to Capitol Hill. The hostile reception he got from the Senate Appropriations Committee was enough to drive a man to drink. Hegseth wants another $90-billion to continue Trump's War of Choice in Iran … and Senators made it clear they weren't buying what he was selling. The normally soft-spoken Senator Gary Peters pulled no punches in lambasting the former Fox News weekend couch talker. Hegseth claims the Iran War has cost around $37-billion so far. Of course, with Trump's massive budget deficit estimated at 2-trillion dollars, the entire cost of the war goes on the federal credit card to be paid by future generations. And Senator Elissa Slotkin says the real cost is more … 200-billion dollars or more.  The State Board of Canvassers voted to put the Money out of Politics proposal on the November ballot. If approved by voters and if it gets past a court challenge, the proposal would ban political spending by regulated utilities and companies with state contracts. Organizers got some major messaging help in the latest campaign finance reports which showed that CMS Energy has spent more than a quarter-million-dollars in a Republican primary targeting the chair of a House subcommittee who opposes construction of new data centers in Michigan. The number is huge. In 2024, there were a total of 13,491 votes cast in the district’s Republican primary (it's a very red district so the primary is the real election). With a similar turnout this year, the spending equals $20 per vote. VIDEO: Confessions of the Dear Leader – The Lincoln Project ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Subscribe to our YouTube channel ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ A Republic, If You Can Keep It is supported by

The Bitcoin Matrix
Bitcoin Secures $1 Trillion and Has No Security Team | Luke de Wolf

The Bitcoin Matrix

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 25, 2026 160:57


"Bitcoin secures over a trillion dollars in value. It has no security team." Luke de Wolf is a cybersecurity professional and author of Defending Bitcoin. Luke spent his career defending critical infrastructure, the control systems behind power grids and gas pipelines. His claim: Bitcoin is the world's first decentralized critical infrastructure, and it should be defended with the same risk-management frameworks that protect the physical world. A trillion-dollar network with no security team. And Luke is a former BIP-110 skeptic who flipped to supporting it making him a moderate who pisses off both sides. We get into the CIA triad and why availability is the whole game, people as the weakest link and the Stuxnet lesson, the real cost of running a node over time, spam as a DDoS and the hidden tax on Bitcoin, the two CVEs behind inscriptions, and the full BIP-110 fight. We discuss why he flipped, the game theory of activation, soft fork vs hard fork, the intolerant minority, and whether BIP-110 even has a failed state. This is the defender's case for Bitcoin, and the fight is happening right now. Subscribe so you never miss an episode.

Healthy Mind, Healthy Life
Mental Health Support For Campaign Staff And Organizers, with Ashley Williams

Healthy Mind, Healthy Life

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 23, 2026 20:40


Send us Fan Mail Democracy work can look fearless from the outside while feeling crushing on the inside. We sit down with Ashley Williams, the founder of Mind the Movement, to talk about the mental health reality for campaign staff, activists, and organizers who hold the line through long hours, public pressure, and constant urgency. We dig into why burnout in politics is so easy to miss: when everyone is exhausted, “normal” starts to look like running on fumes. Ashley breaks down the root causes behind campaign staff burnout and anxiety, including unstable short-term jobs, low pay, the looming loss of health insurance, and the damage that poor management can do when teams lack emotional safety. We also talk about the subtle signals that someone may be sliding into a mental health crisis, like withdrawal, disengagement, and a sudden shift toward hopelessness. Then we get practical. Ashley explains how Mind the Movement helps remove barriers to care through therapy subsidies, peer-led support groups tailored to movement roles, and crisis training for organizational leaders so they know what to do when a teammate is struggling. If you've ever felt guilty for resting, this conversation reframes recovery as part of sustainable organizing because protecting democracy requires healthy people. If this resonates, subscribe, share the episode with one person on your team, and leave a review so more frontline democracy workers can find support.  Connect With the Guest: Website: https://mindthemovement.org LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/mind-the-movement Substack: https://mindthemovement.substack.com YouEx Get 50% off the first 6 months of YouEx.ai! Dr. Ginny Trierweiler Offer: free video explaining. Why Dieting Doesn't Work. Brief video explaining. Extraordinary People LLC All free so we can get to know each other! Convergence Offer: 50% off | TRANSFORM50 The Kloaked Signal Select for pre-order discount 10% | Code: podfans10 Disclaimer: This post contains affiliate links. If you make a purchase, I may receive a commission at no extra cost to you. Support the show Want to Be a Guest on Healthy Mind, Healthy Life?

E.W. Conundrum's Troubadours and Raconteurs Podcast
Episode 682 Featuring Jessica McGuigan - Professional Counselor, Community Organizer, Activist, Musician & DJ

E.W. Conundrum's Troubadours and Raconteurs Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 22, 2026 58:30


Episode 682 also includes an E.W. Poetic Piece titled, “Thanks Cab.” Commercial Free, Small Batch Radio Crafted in the West Mountains of Northeastern Pennsylvania... Heard All Over The World. Tell Your Friends and Neighbors.

Talk Out of School
The NYC Para Bill and A Conversation with Para Organizer Alyson Monzon

Talk Out of School

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 19, 2026 58:06


Chalkbeat: Council approves $10k perk for public school paraprofessionals Daily News: NYC Council approves $10K checks for teacher aides, Mamdani considers ‘next steps' The Wire: The Respect Check Passes: A Temporary Victory Built By Pressure - And the Unfinished Fight. The Wire: The Good, Bad and Ugly - The NYC Para Bill Daily News: Council paraprofessionals bill breaks N.Y. law The Wire: The Newly Revised UFT Para Bill: The Promise That Kept Shrinking Union Matters: Real Respect for Paras

Basketball Coach Unplugged ( A Basketball Coaching Podcast)
Ep 1973 Teachhoops.com Coaching Call

Basketball Coach Unplugged ( A Basketball Coaching Podcast)

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 16, 2026 22:27


https://teachhoops.com/ You can devour every single podcast episode on this channel, fill up a dozen legal pads with advanced multi-ball drills, and spend hours analyzing spatial cutting geometry. But at the end of the day, passive consumption will only get your program so far. Every single gym ecosystem faces its own highly specific, highly isolated operational leaks. Maybe you are staring at a roster trapped in a robotic rut of coach-fed compliance and you can't figure out the exact socratic constraints needed to jumpstart their Decision IQ. Maybe your assistant coaches have grown passive, and you need an exact blueprint to realign their organizational lenses. Or maybe you are heading into an intense winter stretch and you are wrestling with how to protect your team's Next Play Speed under heavy community pressure. In this episode, we step directly into the "Truth Room" to talk about the power of direct, personalized mentorship. We break down why the absolute best program builders never coach in a vacuum. Discover what happens when you stop guessing through the off-season and instead lock in a private, 1-on-1 Coaching Call with Coach Collins to audit your practice scripts, maximize your gym's Activity Density, and map out a definitive, level 4 championship workflow. When you jump on a private consulting call, we bypass empty generalities and immediately put your entire program through a sharp, analytical filter: The Filter: We pull apart your current 120-minute practice timeline down to the exact second. We find the hidden time leaks where players are standing in lines or listening to long lectures, and we inject high-transfer Multi-Ball architectures and Small-Sided Games ($SSGs$) that force players to read defensive hips through the exhaust. The Filter: We map out your staff's unique DNA. I will show you exactly how to weaponize your assistant coaches by deploying them through distinct lenses—empowering your Organizer to command the transitions and utilizing your Antagonist to fiercely police your closeouts and vocal habits. The Filter: We evaluate your offensive entries and defensive coverages to ensure they are engineered to maximize your Effective Field Goal Percentage ($eFG%$): Coach's Note: "The loneliest place in sports is sitting in an empty gym office late at night trying to solve all your program's cultural and tactical puzzles by yourself. The best coaches I've ever been around aren't lone wolves—they seek out direct, high-signal mentorship to sharpen their edge. Don't waste another season running into the exact same operational bottlenecks. Let's get on a call, unpack your tape, audit your standard of tolerance, and build an unshakeable blueprint to take your program to the next level." Title Ideas: Are You Ready to Lock In a 1-on-1 Coaching Call With Coach Collins? Stop Guessing Your Strategy! (The Power of Personalized Basketball Mentorship) How to Audit Your Basketball Program With a Private Consulting Call The Missing Piece in Your Leadership: Finding a Masterclass Coaching Mentor Primary Keywords: Coaching call with Coach Collins, basketball coaching mentorship program, TeachHoops, The Championship Coach, basketball program consulting, high school basketball practice design audit, standard of tolerance. Secondary Keywords: Effective Field Goal Percentage analytics, next play speed resilience, own the room vocabulary, rep density basketball drills, coaching staff lenses, decision IQ constraints, socratic coaching method, Types of Coaches (3).pdf. Description Snippet: "Are you tired of feeling stuck in a coaching vacuum, trying to solve your team's spacing problems, staff alignment leaks, and cultural bottlenecks all on your own? In this episode, Coach Collins outlines the massive, transformational impact of locking in a private, 1-on-1 coaching consultation. Discover how a personalized program audit can completely clean up your practice activity density, optimize your game-night eFG%, and establish an unyielding standard of excellence." Suggested Tags: #BasketballCoaching #TeachHoops #CoachCollins #TheChampionshipCoach #CoachingMentorship #ProgramBuilding #TeamCulture #SportsLeadership #PracticeDesign Are you looking to schedule your 1-on-1 strategy call right now in July to completely revolutionize your offensive cutting geometry and masterclass practice scripts before the intense winter season arrives, or are you hoping to use a private consulting session to design a highly specific leadership curriculum that will empower your returning upperclassmen to step up and own the room? Show NotesThe Executive Diagnostic Audit[YOUR GYM SCRIPT] ───► Audit Activity Density & Rep Bottlenecks [YOUR PLAYBOOK] ───► Optimize Spacing Geometry & eFG% Return [YOUR LEADERSHIP] ───► Establish an Unyielding Standard of Tolerance 1. Practice Architecture Deconstruction2. Staff & Culture Alignment Mapping3. Mathematical Efficiency Optimization$$eFG% = frac{text{FGM} + (0.5 times text{3PM})}{text{FGA}}$$The Mentorship Divide: Isolated Guessing vs. Collaborative BlueprintingProgram Overhaul ElementIsolated Guessing (Level 2 Leak)Direct 1-on-1 Coaching Call (Level 4)Problem SolvingSifting through random internet drills; trial-and-errorTargeted, immediate diagnostic solutions built for your rosterPractice DesignCopying standard layouts that allow conversational lazinessTailored scripts engineered for elite Rep Density and flowCulture ExecutionHoping your players eventually step up to Own The RoomA concrete communication workflow to drive player-led autonomyStaff ManagementAllowing unaligned assistant voices to create a passive benchClear, structural delegation strategies for your entire staffYouTube SEO Strategy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Girls Gone Deep
181: Confessions of an Orgy Organizer: DP, Golden Shower Peep Show, Strap-Ons, Double Digits & More Feat. Bossy

Girls Gone Deep

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 16, 2026 63:34


This week, Elle and Vee sit down with one of their favorite humans in the lifestyle, Bossy, for a hilarious, heartfelt, and wildly unfiltered conversation about friendship, non-monogamy, and unforgettable play party moments. From the infamous "George" strap-on to Slut Olympics, chosen family, and hosting an 85-person lifestyle birthday party, they share it all. But beneath all the filthy stories is an honest conversation about communication, community, and why the people you build around you matter just as much as the sex.CHAPTERS00:00 Meet Bossy and Welcome to the Orgy Committee00:48 Two Women, First Time Double Penetration (DP)08:41 Do You Like Cum in Your Mouth? 09:44 Dating Separately Without the Drama12:45 How Did You Build Your Dream Lifestyle Friend Group18:48 Slut Olympics and Lifestyle Shenanigans23:51 When is Play Done if there is No Orgasm?26:41 Meet George: Strap-Ons, Chemistry, and Mutual Attraction31:23 Double Digits: Penetration with 10 or more people in the same night32:21 Trying New Kinks With Trust: Flogging36:05 The Golden Shower Peep Show43:50 Big Orgies Vs Small Orgies: Pros and Cons48:44 Bossy Shares Lifestyle Tips from her 10 Years ENM journey50:35 Asking Your Partner These Questions 54:03 Rapid Fire: Threesomes 2 Women or 2 Men?, Gangbang, and Final ConfessionsSupport the show______How to Support the Show: 

Authentically Detroit
2026 Eastside Candidate Forum Preview with Jasmine Kaltenbach

Authentically Detroit

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 15, 2026 71:46 Transcription Available


In this episode, Donna and Sam sat down with Organizer and Labor Policy Expert, Jasmine Kaltenbach to discuss the upcoming 2026 Eastside Candidate Forum.The Eastside Candidate Forum , held in partnership with SEIU Michigan, takes place on July 18th, ahead of the 2026 Michigan U.S. House, State House, and State Senate elections.At the forum, residents will have the chance to learn where candidates stand on community priorities, local policy, and issues shaping Detroit's Eastside.To stay up to date on all things Authentically Detroit and register for the forum, click here. THIS WEEK IN THE MICHIGAN CHRONICLE:HOW THE OBAMAS ARE MOTIVATING BLACK VOTERS IN MICHIGAN'S U.S. SENATE RACESupport the showFollow us on Instagram, Facebook and Twitter. 

Kevin McCullough Radio
Let Them Eat Cake in Ruffles & Ribbons...In Music City

Kevin McCullough Radio

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 11, 2026 36:47


This week on Radio Night Live, the conversation is as lively as ever! Kevin McCullough and his co-host Cristyne Nicholas dive into the world of music, fashion, and history. They're joined by Francine LeFrack, Co-Producer of the off-Broadway musical "Music City," and Founder of the Francine A. LeFrak Foundation and Same Sky Foundation. "Music City," is making waves with its talented cast and immersive experience. Francine shares her passion for the show and the talented individuals behind it, and Kevin can't help but be won over by the music and the energy of the production. The episode also takes a trip back in time with a visit to the Frick Collection, where they meet Yifu Liu, Anne L. Poulet Curatorial Fellow at The Frick Collection and Organizer of the exhibit "Ruffles and Ribbons: Fashion Plates from the Time of Marie Antoinette." Yifu shares the fascinating story behind the exhibit and the significance of Marie Antoinette's influence on fashion. Meanwhile, Kevin and Cristyne discuss their recent experiences on a harbor cruise and their upcoming plans for the weekend. As always, the conversation is engaging and informative, covering a range of topics from music to history to the city's cultural scene. Cristyne also share her recommendations for things to do and see in the city, from the Frick Collection to the off-Broadway musical "Music City." If you're looking for a fun and entertaining listen, this episode of Radio Night Live is a must-listen. Tune in to hear the full conversation and learn more about the fascinating topics discussed.

The 5 Minute Basketball Coaching Podcast
Ep 1948 Maximize the Minutes: Auditing the Activity Density of Your Gym

The 5 Minute Basketball Coaching Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 10, 2026 33:00


https://teachhoops.com/ If you audit a standard, average basketball practice, you will witness a massive amount of invisible time leaking out of the gym. You will see a coach blow the whistle, call the players over, and lean against a wall for seven minutes lecturing about a new entry action while twelve athletes stand completely still, watching their physical core temperatures drop. Then, they split into a single-file line where one player executes a repetition while eleven others watch passively from the sideline. Time is the ultimate currency for a program builder. If your practice design is slow, loose, and lecture-heavy, you aren't just wasting gym time—you are actively coding sluggish habits, mental passivity, and zero-signal noise into your roster. In this episode, we step directly into the "Truth Room" to break down how to use your practice time with absolute precision. We move past basic time-blocking and dive into the analytics of Activity Density and structural design. Discover how to leverage your staff lenses to eliminate dead time, maximize repetitions, and build a high-transfer learning environment that slides your team out of coach-fed compliance and into a player-led championship standard. To squeeze every ounce of development out of your clock, your script must be treated as a rigid, chronological engine. The Organizer on your staff polices the clock down to the exact second, completely eliminating long huddle transitions or slow water breaks. The Setup: Banish quiet stretching lines from your vocabulary. Players immediately execute high-tempo dynamic activation sequences across the full layout of the hardwood. The Velocity: This block is used to set the environmental tone. Players must continuously shout out defensive alerts through their physical movements, forcing high vocal energy into the rafters before a basketball even bounces. The Setup: High-speed handling, spatial passing, and finishing tracks. The Constraint: Traditional lines are an operational failure. Every drill track must feature a Multi-Ball design. If you have twelve players on the floor, at least 70% of them must be moving, catching, or passing concurrently across multiple baskets. The Return: High rep density completely eliminates boredom leaks and forces your players to communicate through the exhaust to keep the gears turning. The Setup: Instead of running 5-on-0 scripted walkthroughs where players act like robotic pieces on a chessboard, you break the floor into contextual 2-on-2, 3-on-3, or 4-on-4 structural shells. The Constraint: Put tight, socratic constraints on the game play (e.g., maximum 2 dribbles per touch, or the ball must touch the high-low paint seam within 4 seconds). The Goal: This forces your players to read the defender's hips independently. It spikes their independent Decision IQ and Next Play Speed under pressure without a coach using a joystick from the baseline. The Setup: 5-on-5 half-court and full-court system alignment. This is where you implement your primary cutting geometry or your defensive coverages (such as an aggressive match-up zone or a trapping shell). The Rule: You must hold an unyielding Standard of Tolerance. If a defender fails to close out with High Hands or a player displays bad body language after an error, The Antagonist on your staff stops the clock instantly. You address it in the "Truth Room," execute a quick "drive-by" technical correction on the move, and demand an immediate reset. The Setup: Full-court situational scrimmage puzzles (e.g., down 4 with 45 seconds remaining and zero timeouts). The Filter: Never run your critical shooting blocks or execution scripts at the beginning of practice when everyone is perfectly fresh. We intentionally place them at the absolute end when legs are heavy and lungs are burning. This builds authentic Resilience Equity, forcing players to lock into their mechanics and maximize their Effective Field Goal Percentage (eFG%) under extreme fatigue: Coach's Note: "You don't build an elite basketball program by the length of time you spend in the gym; you build it by the focus and intensity you jam into the minutes you have. If your practice script allows for conversational laziness, silent shells, or long blocks of standing around, you are actively training your kids to fade under pressure on Friday night. Clean up your clock management, unleash your staff lenses, maximize your rep density, and demand that your players own the room." Title Ideas: How to Structure a High-Efficiency Basketball Practice Plan Stop Wasting Gym Time! (The 120-Minute Practice Blueprint) How to Design Basketball Drills for Maximum Rep Density Are Your Practices Efficient or Lazy? (The Activity Density Audit) Primary Keywords: Using basketball practice time effectively, high school basketball practice script, TeachHoops, Coach Collins, basketball practice organization, small-sided games basketball, practice activity density. Secondary Keywords: Effective Field Goal Percentage analytics, rep density basketball drills, coaching staff roles, Types of Coaches (3).pdf, standard of tolerance, decision IQ constraints, next play speed resilience, player-led team culture. Description Snippet: "Are your basketball practices slow, disorganized, or packed with long lectures that drain your team's energy? In this podcast episode, Coach Collins breaks down the definitive masterclass blueprint for maximizing your practice time. Discover how to eliminate line bottlenecks using multi-ball architectures, how to boost your team's independent decision IQ with socratic small-sided games, and how to structure your drills under fatigue to ensure your habits transfer directly to game night." Suggested Tags:#BasketballCoaching #TeachHoops #CoachCollins #PracticePlanning #PracticeDesign #BasketballDrills #HighSchoolBasketball #CoachingTips #PodcastForCoaches Are you evaluating your practice time efficiency to retool your upcoming off-season summer training workflows where you want to focus heavily on fast-paced transition spacing, or are you looking to adapt this exact chronological script for a youth basketball camp layout to ensure your younger players stay continuously active and engaged? Show NotesThe Architecture of an Elite 120-Minute Script[00:00] ─── Dynamic Activation & Communication Triggers (10 Min) ───► [10:00] [10:00] ─── Multi-Ball Rep Density Skill Blocks (20 Min) ───► [30:00] [30:00] ─── Small-Sided Decision IQ Games (30 Min) ───► [60:00] [60:00] ─── Tactical System Shell Alignment (40 Min) ───► [100:00] [100:00] ── Fatigue-Phase eFG% Under Pressure (20 Min) ───► [120:00] 1. 00:00 to 10:00 | The High-Signal Launch2. 10:00 to 30:00 | The Multi-Ball "Rep Density" Formula3. 30:00 to 60:00 | Small-Sided Games (SSGs) over Lectures4. 60:00 to 100:00 | Tactical System Shell & The Standard of Tolerance5. 100:00 to 120:00 | Fatigue-Phase ExecutioneFG%=FGAFGM+(0.5×3PM)​The Efficiency Audit: The Time Leaks vs. The Championship StandardPractice AssetThe Level 2 Compliant LeakThe Level 4 Championship StandardWhistle TransitionsCasual walking; players slowly drifting to grab waterSprinted transitions policed fiercely by The OrganizerCoaching Voice5+ minute whiteboard lectures while players stand60-second socratic corrections on the flyRoster Touch RatioOne player shoots while eleven watch from the baselineMulti-Ball spacing; continuous concurrent actions across courtsLocker Room PulseCoach-Fed compliance; waiting to be told to talkPlayer-Led autonomy; athletes owning the environmentYouTube SEO Strategy Learn more about your ad choices. 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Stand Up! with Pete Dominick
1631 Christy McGillivray "Voters Not Politicians" + News & Clips

Stand Up! with Pete Dominick

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 9, 2026 74:16


My conversation with Christy starts at 29 minutes Stand Up is a daily podcast. I book,host,edit, post and promote new episodes with brilliant guests every day. This show is Ad free and fully supported by listeners like you! Please subscribe now for as little as 5$ and gain access to a community of over 750 awesome, curious, kind, funny, brilliant, generous souls Subscribe and Watch Interviews LIVE : On YOUTUBE.com/StandUpWithPete ON SubstackStandUpWithPete In July of 2025 Christy McGillivray joined Voters Not Politicians as the Executive Director. She has over twenty years of experience across the fields of education and non-partisan political and policy advocacy. Her past roles as an advocate include working as the Legislative and Political Director for Sierra Club Michigan; Organizer with the American Federation of Teachers, Michigan; and Campaigns Director and Field Manager for Michigan Clean Water Action. Christy taught Earth Science, Chemistry, and Physics at Eastpointe Highschool, outdoor STEM education at the Farmington Hills Nature Center, Early American History and Literature at Lawrence Technological University, and Comparative Education Policy at Deakin University in Melbourne, Australia. Christy is committed to spending the rest of her life ensuring the people most affected by policies have a voice in shaping those policies, and preserving an accountability pathway for elected officials based on the policy decisions they make. In short, Christy is here to fight for our democracy. Decades of experience have made it clear to her that a healthy, functioning democracy is the best way to deliver for all Michiganders. If she's not spending her spare time hiking and paddling in the Upper Peninsula with her partner, daughter, and two dogs, Christy can probably be found in Wayne State University's Reuther archive combing through primary documents from the 1930s. Listen rate and review on Apple Podcasts Listen rate and review on Spotify Pete On Instagram Pete on Blue Sky Pete on Threads Pete on Tik Tok Pete on Twitter Pete Personal FB page Stand Up with Pete FB page All things Jon Carroll  Gift a Subscription https://www.patreon.com/PeteDominick/gift Send Pete $ Directly on Venmo

The 5 Minute Basketball Coaching Podcast
Ep 1947 Bringing Energy to Practice Everyday

The 5 Minute Basketball Coaching Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 9, 2026 10:24


https://teachhoops.com/ If you walk into a basketball facility in the dead of winter on a freezing Tuesday afternoon in January, you can instantly feel the energy deficit. Lungs are heavy, legs are burning from a multi-game weekend stretch, and the gym is completely quiet. In a typical basketball program, the head coach reacts to this quiet atmosphere by pacing the baseline and screaming at the top of their lungs, desperately trying to inject excitement into a flat group of athletes. But if you are a masterclass program builder, you know that trying to force empty excitement from the sideline is a losing battle. Fake enthusiasm introduces an operational leak into your culture. It keeps your roster trapped in a model of robotic, coach-fed compliance. In this episode, we step directly into the "Truth Room" to flip this dynamic entirely on its head by analyzing a critical diagnostic question. We break down how to transition from an exhausting model where you are the sole source of motivation into an elite, high-transfer ecosystem where Activity Density, structural constraints, and player-led accountability naturally generate a high-velocity workspace every single afternoon. To accurately audit whether your practice energy is sustainable or merely a superficial, coach-driven illusion, you must evaluate your environment through this specific lens: "If you completely locked your vocal cords, put your whistle in your pocket, and stood silently on the baseline for an entire two-hour practice, what level of intensity, vocal communication, and competitive friction would your players actively sustain on their own?" If the energy in your gym immediately drops to zero the moment you close your mouth, your program is stuck in Level 2 compliance. Your players are Coach-Fed actors waiting for a joystick instruction. If the gym stays at a roaring, high-hands championship standard, you have successfully built a Level 4 player-led powerhouse that brings its own "gym juice" to the hardwood. You cannot simply demand energy; you must build a high-transfer practice environment that naturally extracts it through the following structural pillars: When players stand in a single-file line of eight people waiting to take a casual finishing shot, their core temperature drops, their focus drifts, and their energy plummets. The Blueprint: Your practice script must feature a mandatory Multi-Ball architecture. Ensure that at least 70% of your roster is actively catching, moving, or passing concurrently across all available baskets. High rep density leaves zero room for conversational laziness. You should never carry the burden of being the only high-energy signal in the gym. Allocate specific structural roles to your assistant coaches based on their unique DNA to keep the floor moving at a rapid clip. The Blueprint: Empower The Organizer to completely command the practice clock, managing sprinted drill transitions to eliminate dead time. Unleash The Antagonist to act as your bad-cop culture enforcer—the voice that stops the clock instantly the second a player soft-recovers on a closeout or drops their hands through fatigue. When your players face extreme physical exhaust or a tough, high-friction scrimmage deficit, they will naturally want to retreat into quiet isolation. The Blueprint: Mandate a streamlined, high-signal language. Replace passive, empty apologies ("My fault, coach") with an immediate physical reset command: "Next Play Speed." When the focus starts to fracture, banish sideline coaching lectures and demand that your athletes step up to "Own The Room." This simple linguistic boundary forces your players to become the ultimate enforcers of the energy standard. Coach's Note: "Stop trying to be a cheerleader for your basketball team. If you have to bring all the juice to the gym every single afternoon, you are going to be completely burnt out by February, and your players will crumble the second they play a tough road game in a hostile environment. Stop over-coaching effort. Clean up your practice clock, maximize your rep density, implement small-sided socratic constraints, and force your players to own the room. Build a self-policing powerhouse." Title Ideas: Does Your Basketball Team Pass This Critical Energy Test? Stop Screaming at Your Players! How to Build a Self-Policing Basketball Practice How to Keep Basketball Practice Energy High Without Saying a Word Are Your Practices Coach-Fed or Player-Led? (The Ultimate Culture Audit) Primary Keywords: Bringing energy to basketball practice, high school basketball team culture, TeachHoops, Coach Collins, basketball practice rep density, building player-led teams, coaching staff alignment workflows. Secondary Keywords: Next play speed resilience, own the room vocabulary, active density practice design, standard of tolerance, decision IQ constraints, socratic coaching method, Types of Coaches (3).pdf. Description Snippet: "Are you exhausted from having to constantly yell, clap, and scream to get your basketball players to talk, sprint, or lock in on defense? In this podcast episode, Coach Collins reframes the entire concept of practice energy into an unyielding diagnostic question. Discover how to transition away from coach-driven excitement and implement a high-density, structural practice design that forces your players to generate their own championship energy every single day." Suggested Tags:#BasketballCoaching #TeachHoops #CoachCollins #PracticeDesign #TeamCulture #PlayerLed #SportsLeadership #HighSchoolBasketball #CoachingTips Are you evaluating your practice energy dynamics to prepare your varsity staff for a rigorous mid-winter tournament schedule where you need your players to remain emotionally steady during exhausting back-to-back game layouts, or are you looking for a specific sequence of small-sided game constraints to naturally inject competitive friction into your program's youth development camps? Show NotesThe Diagnostic Question Every Program Builder Must AskEngineering the Practice Engine for Automatic Energy1. Maximize Your "Rep Density" to Eliminate Boredom Leaks2. Deploy Your Staff Lenses to Balance the Friction3. Establish a Shared Linguistic ShieldThe Energy Balance: Coach-Fed Noise vs. Player-Led JuiceEnvironmental ElementThe Level 2 Compliant Gym (Leak)The Level 4 Transformational Gym (Standard)Primary Sound SourceThe head coach screaming instructions from the sidelineFive players on the floor shouting coverages through exhaustDrill TransitionsSluggish walking; players casually grabbing water bottlesSprinted transitions driven by The Organizer and player huddlesAdversity ResponseHeavy emotional hang-time; looking to the bench for energyImmediate player-led huddle; elite Next Play Speed resetHandling FatigueHands on hips; quiet focus on individual exhaustionHigh-hands posture; players actively pulling up lagging peersYouTube SEO Strategy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Rising Up with Sonali
How Illinois Organizers Won a New Tax on Tech Giants

Rising Up with Sonali

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 9, 2026


Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker in June of this year signed a bill into law that slaps a tax on tech companies' ad revenues. The movement that led to SB 3019 was many months in the making.

High School Hoops ( Coaching High School Basketball)
Ep 411 How Do You Structure Your Staff to Transition From a Dictatorship to a Powerhouse?

High School Hoops ( Coaching High School Basketball)

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 8, 2026 19:18


https://teachhoops.com/ If you build a coaching staff based entirely on comfort, friendship, or a collection of yes-men who look at the floor the exact same way you do, you are introducing a massive structural leak into your organization. Most head coaches hire assistants to act as glorified drill-monitors—quiet observers who stand along the sideline, wave a hand during transition breaks, and hold a clipboard while the head coach exhausts their vocal cords micro-managing fifty different details. In a level 4 championship program, your staff is an integrated, high-signal engine. You do not need assistant coaches who mimic your personality; you need a diverse group of distinct alchemical lenses designed to divide and conquer every square inch of the gym ecosystem. This episode steps directly into the "Truth Room" to pull back the curtain on staff architecture. We break down the three non-negotiable coaching archetypes—The Organizer, The Yoda, and The Antagonist—and detail exactly how to delegate absolute autonomy to your staff so your program transitions from a coach-fed dictatorship into a self-policing powerhouse. An elite coaching staff must operate like a singular, high-functioning Voltron. Instead of every coach watching the ball, each assistant is assigned a specific, uncompromised structural lens to police the gym's Activity Density and cultural standard. The DNA: Methodical, unyielding, hyper-disciplined, and hyper-organized. The Practice Lens: This coach is the absolute master of the practice clock. They do not watch the mechanics of a drill; they watch the timeline. They enforce sprinted water breaks, police smooth drill transitions, and ensure that your 120-minute practice script never stalls out for a long coaching lecture. They are the engine behind your high Rep Density and Activity Density. The DNA: Stoic, observant, deeply tactical, and data-driven. The Practice Lens: While the rest of the gym is moving at a hundred miles an hour, The Yoda sits quietly in the macro-view. They are tracking spatial cutting geometry, screening angles, and entry schemas. The Analytical Return: During a game or scrimmage, they aren't riding the emotional wave of a tough whistle. They are tracking the math behind your Effective Field Goal Percentage ($eFG%$), spotting structural gaps in the opponent's defensive shell, and formulating the zero-second counter to tip the tactical scale. The DNA: Intense, vocal, uncompromising, and deeply gritty. The Practice Lens: This coach is your ultimate line enforcer. They do not allow a single loose standard to seep into the gym. If a perimeter defender soft-recovers on a closeout, fails to play with High Hands, or displays poor body language after a turnover, The Antagonist blows the whistle and stops the clock instantly. They take the burden of daily confrontation off the head coach's plate, protecting your program's unyielding Standard of Tolerance through the exhaust. Coach's Note: "If you are the only person screaming, correcting, and driving the energy in your gym every afternoon, you haven't built a staff—you've just hired a group of spectators with front-row seats. Elite program building demands that you check your ego at the door. Trust your people. Give your Organizer the clock, give your Yoda the clipboard, give your Antagonist the license to protect the culture line, and step back so you can actually lead. Build a shield, not a one-man show." Title Ideas: How to Build a Championship Basketball Coaching Staff (The 3 Lenses) Stop Hiring Yes-Men! How to Structure Your Assistant Coaches The Ultimate Coaching Staff Blueprint: Organizer, Yoda, & Antagonist How Elite Basketball Programs Aligned Their Bench for Postseason Runs Primary Keywords: Building a basketball coaching staff, delegating to assistant basketball coaches, TeachHoops, Coach Collins, basketball staff organization, high school basketball team culture, practice activity density. Secondary Keywords: Effective Field Goal Percentage analytics, Types of Coaches (3).pdf, standard of tolerance, next play speed resilience, own the room vocabulary, coaching staff roles, high-hands closeouts. Description Snippet: "Are your assistant coaches standing around like quiet spectators during your practices, or are they actively driving your program's championship standards? In this podcast episode, Coach Collins breaks down the definitive organizational blueprint for building an elite coaching staff. Discover how to align the three essential coaching lenses—The Organizer, The Yoda, and The Antagonist—to eliminate time leaks, boost your team's decision IQ, and enforce an unyielding standard of tolerance." Suggested Tags: #BasketballCoaching #TeachHoops #CoachCollins #CoachingStaff #AssistantCoaching #TeamCulture #SportsLeadership #HighSchoolBasketball #PracticeOrganization Are you evaluating your staff architecture to onboard a set of brand-new assistant coaches before your upcoming pre-season training workflows begin, or are you trying to realign an existing staff that has grown a bit quiet or passive during intense, high-stakes tournament environments? Show NotesThe Championship Staff Architecture [THE HEAD COACH] (Macro Conduct; Game-Night Pivot) │ ┌─────────────────────┼─────────────────────┐ ▼ ▼ ▼ [THE ORGANIZER] [THE YODA] [THE ANTAGONIST] (The Practice Clock) (The Tactical Reads) (The Culture Enforcer) 1. The Organizer (The Chief of Staff)2. The Yoda (The Analytical Architect)3. The Antagonist (The Bad-Cop Culture Carrier)The Staff Audit: The Fragmented Bench vs. The Championship VoltronBench Operational VariableThe Fragmented Bench (Level 2 Leak)The Aligned Voltron (Level 4 Standard)Drill SupervisionAll coaches watch the ball; zero secondary trackingDivided eyes; one tracks clock, one tracks mechanics, one tracks effortWhiteboard LecturesHead coach speaks for 10 minutes while staff stands quietly60-second "drive-by" adjustments delivered concurrently by roleIn-Game HuddlesMultiple assistants shouting separate directives at once15-second staff huddle first; head coach delivers unified clarityAdversity ManagementCoaching staff panics, shifts blame, or shows frustrationStaff remains anchored; The Antagonist demands immediate Next Play SpeedYouTube SEO Strategy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The 5 Minute Basketball Coaching Podcast
Ep 1946 What the Absolute Best Coaches Do Differently

The 5 Minute Basketball Coaching Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 8, 2026 5:11


https://teachhoops.com/ If you study the vast majority of athletic programs, you will see coaches who are entirely consumed by the physical mechanics of the game. They spend hours pacing the sideline, drawing up intricate tactical screens, and micro-managing their athletes' every step with a joystick mentality. They believe that winning is a direct product of holding the loudest whistle or hoarding the largest playbook. But if you look at the absolute best coaches—the masterclass program builders who consistently cut down nets year after year, regardless of roster turnover—you will see a completely different operational standard. The best coaches aren't just tactical experts; they are elite organizational architects. They don't look at a team as a collection of athletes to be micromanaged; they look at a program as an integrated ecosystem designed around high Activity Density, clear operational roles, and a shared linguistic standard. This episode steps into the "Truth Room" to analyze the definitive habits, frameworks, and structural philosophies that separate the legendary program builders from the average play-callers. The best coaches build an unshakeable ecosystem by shifting their focus away from trailing indicators like the scoreboard and focusing entirely on four high-leverage internal pillars: Average coaches rely heavily on block practice—running static, scripted drills where players stand in long single lines waiting to take a shot or finish a move. The best coaches treat time as a premium currency. The Blueprint: They structure their 120-minute practice scripts around maximum Rep Density. They mandate a Multi-Ball architecture so that at least $70%$ of the roster is actively catching, moving, or scanning concurrently. The Decision Load: They replace empty-gym cone drills with Small-Sided Games ($SSGs$) built around precise spatial constraints. This forces players to read the defender's hips independently, elevating their Decision IQ and Next Play Speed under heavy physical exhaust. The best coaches possess zero ego. They don't try to be the only voice echoing off the rafters. Instead, they assemble a diverse coaching staff and give them absolute autonomy within clearly defined structural roles. The Blueprint: They utilize their staff's unique DNA by deploying precise lenses. They empower The Organizer to completely command the practice clock and logistical flow. They task The Yoda with breaking down technical entry schemas, spatial geometry, and analytical counters. They unleash The Antagonist to act as the ultimate bad-cop enforcer of physical grit and defensive edge through the exhaust. Legendary coaches never make developmental or tactical decisions based on emotional guesswork or post-game frustration. Every single adjustment they introduce is mathematically engineered to protect the program's efficiency metrics. The Blueprint: Their ultimate offensive filter is optimizing the team's Effective Field Goal Percentage ($eFG%$): The Fatigue Filter: Because they understand that mechanics break down under pressure, they intentionally schedule high-stress precision shooting and situational blocks at the absolute end of practice when legs are heavy and lungs are burning. This builds authentic Resilience Equity that translates directly to Friday night success. As a leader, your culture is not defined by the rules you write on the locker room wall; it is defined entirely by the lowest level of behavior you are willing to accept on a daily basis. The best coaches hold an uncompromised line. The Blueprint: If a star player soft-recovers on a closeout, fails to play with High Hands, or displays poor body language after a turnover, the coaching staff stops the clock instantly. They address the execution in the "Truth Room," correct the alignment, and demand an immediate reset. They refuse to sacrifice their long-term brand to salvage a short-term, transactional win. Coach's Note: "The best coaches don't build championship programs by micro-managing their players' every single breath; they do it by engineering an environment where excellence is the only available option. They clean up the practice clock, align their assistant staff, mandate an unyielding language like 'Next Play Speed,' and step back to let their players take total ownership. When you transition your gym from coach-fed compliance to a self-policing powerhouse, the scoreboard will take care of itself." Title Ideas: What the Best Basketball Coaches Do Differently (The Program Blueprint) Stop Micro-Managing Your Players! How Masterclass Coaches Build Culture The 4 Core Habits of Legendary High School Basketball Coaches How Elite Program Builders Structure Their Practice Efficiency Primary Keywords: What the best basketball coaches do, building a basketball program culture, TeachHoops, Coach Collins, small-sided games basketball training, coaching staff alignment workflows, standard of tolerance. Secondary Keywords: Effective Field Goal Percentage analytics, next play speed resilience, own the room coaching language, rep density practice scripts, Types of Coaches (3).pdf, decision IQ constraints, socratic coaching method. Description Snippet: "What separates average play-callers from the absolute best coaches in the country? In this masterclass episode, Coach Collins pulls back the curtain on the definitive organizational habits of elite program builders. Discover how legendary coaches maximize their gym's rep density, seamlessly align their coaching staff roles, use analytical math to drive player development, and implement an unyielding standard of tolerance to build a player-led powerhouse." Suggested Tags: #BasketballCoaching #TeachHoops #CoachCollins #CoachingPhilosophy #ProgramBuilding #TeamCulture #SportsLeadership #HighSchoolBasketball Are you studying the habits of masterclass coaches to help design your upcoming pre-season staff retreat so your assistants are perfectly aligned on day one, or are you looking for a specific series of small-sided game constraints to help your team transition out of a robotic compliance rut and into a highly fluid, read-and-react offensive rhythm? Show NotesThe Elite Coaching Architecture [THE COACHING staff] / | [The Organizer] [The Yoda] [The Antagonist] (Practice Clock) (Tactical Reads) (Culture Enforcer) | / | / ▼ ▼ ▼ [HIGH-TRANSFER LEARNING ECOSYSTEM] 1. They Engineer High-Transfer Learning Environments2. They Align and Delegate Their Staff Lenses3. They Ground Every Standard in Analytical Math$$eFG% = frac{text{FGM} + (0.5 times text{3PM})}{text{FGA}}$$4. They Enforce an Unyielding Standard of ToleranceThe Operational Divide: The Average vs. The EliteCoaching ElementWhat Average Coaches Do (Level 2)What the Best Coaches Do (Level 4)Playbook DesignCollect hundreds of complex, rigid set playsMaster fluid spatial concepts and cutting geometryPractice PhilosophyLong lectures on the board; low Rep DensitySocratic constraints; continuous Multi-Ball activityCommunicationConstant, reactive, and emotional sideline noiseA highly streamlined, high-signal team vocabularyLocker Room VibeCoach-Fed compliance; waiting for directionPlayer-Led autonomy; athletes own the standardYouTube SEO Strategy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Basketball Coach Unplugged ( A Basketball Coaching Podcast)
Ep 1964 The Practice Planning / Architecture: Designing a High-Transfer

Basketball Coach Unplugged ( A Basketball Coaching Podcast)

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 3, 2026 39:09


⁠https://teachhoops.com/⁠ If you walk into a gym and see a coach spending twenty minutes leaning against a wall explaining a drill, followed by players standing in a single line waiting to take a shot, you are witnessing an operational failure. Time is the most valuable resource a coach has. If your practice design is slow, loose, and lecture-heavy, you are actively coding sluggish habits into your roster. In a level 4 championship program, practice is an intentional, high-speed ecosystem designed around Activity Density and Sensory Load. You don't build a cohesive, resilient team by accident; you build it by engineering an environment that forces continuous decision-making under physical exhaust. This masterclass blueprint breaks down how to structure your practice timeline to maximize repetition density, protect your players' mechanics, and move your team from basic compliance to absolute player-led ownership. Every block of your practice script must have a precise time limit enforced by The Organizer (your Chief of Staff) to eliminate dead time and keep the energy soaring. The Setup: No static stretching on the baseline. Players move through high-tempo physical activation patterns (lunges, skips, defensive slides) across the full court. The Standard: This isn't a quiet warm-up. Players must continuously shout out defensive commands, echoing coverages through the gym to establish high vocal energy before a single basketball is rolled out. The Setup: High-speed ball handling, passing, and finishing tracks. The Constraint: Every single drill must feature a Multi-Ball architecture. If you have twelve players on your roster, at least $70%$ of them must be moving, catching, or passing simultaneously. Lines are banned. The Analytical Return: Maximizing your Rep Density eliminates boredom leaks and builds rapid motor-skill development under a elevated heart rate. The Setup: Transition from isolated skill work into contextual 2-on-2, 3-on-3, or 4-on-4 games. The Execution: Implement tight rules or constraints (e.g., maximum 2 dribbles per touch, or the offense must touch the paint within 4 seconds). The Goal: This forces players to read the defender's hips and build independent, zero-second Decision IQ rather than playing like robotic actors waiting for a joystick instruction from the sideline. The Setup: 5-on-5 half-court and full-court system alignment. This is where you install your primary offensive cutting geometry and your defensive shell (such as an aggressive match-up zone or a trapping 1-3-1 alignment). The Standard: Hold an unyielding Standard of Tolerance. If a defender fails to close out with High Hands or a player shows poor body language after a turnover, The Antagonist stops the clock instantly. You address it in the "Truth Room," correct the alignment, and demand elite Next Play Speed. The Setup: Full-court transition shooting or live situational scrimmaging (e.g., down 4 with 45 seconds left and no timeouts). The Critical Filter: Many coaches put their shooting blocks at the beginning of practice when everyone is fresh. We intentionally place precision execution at the absolute end when legs are heavy and lungs are burning. This is where you build Resilience Equity, forcing players to lock into their mechanics and maximize their Effective Field Goal Percentage ($eFG%$) under extreme physical exhaust. Coach's Note: "Championship habits aren't forged under the bright lights of a Friday night gym; they are built during those quiet, exhausting Tuesday practices in the middle of January when nobody is watching. If your practice script allows for laziness, silences, or long gaps of standing around, you are teaching your kids how to lose. Clean up your clock management, maximize your rep density, challenge their decision IQ, and let your collective culture carry the standard." Title Ideas: How to Structure a High-Efficiency Basketball Practice Plan Stop Wasting Gym Time! (The Ultimate Basketball Practice Blueprint) How to Design Basketball Drills for Maximum Rep Density Primary Keywords: Basketball practice planning, high school basketball practice script, TeachHoops, Coach Collins, basketball practice organization, small-sided games basketball, practice activity density. Secondary Keywords: Effective Field Goal Percentage analytics, rep density basketball drills, coaching staff roles, standard of tolerance, decision IQ constraints, next play speed resilience, player-led team culture. Description Snippet: "Are your basketball practices slow, boring, or unorganized? In this video, we break down the definitive blueprint for basketball practice planning and high-efficiency script design. Discover how to eliminate long lines and boring lectures using multi-ball architectures, how to boost your team's decision IQ with targeted small-sided games, and how to structure your shooting drills under heavy fatigue to maximize your team's game-night eFG%." Suggested Tags: #BasketballCoaching #TeachHoops #CoachCollins #PracticePlanning #PracticeDesign #BasketballDrills #HighSchoolBasketball #CoachingTips Are you utilizing this 120-minute practice framework to design your upcoming summer league training sessions where you want to focus heavily on fast-paced transition skill work, or are you looking to adapt this timeline for a youth basketball camp to ensure your younger players stay continuously engaged and active? Show NotesThe Chronological Practice Engine (The 120-Minute Masterpiece)[00:00] ─── Dynamic Activation & High-Hands Prep (10 Min) ───► [10:00] [10:00] ─── Multi-Ball Rep Density Skill Blocks (20 Min) ───► [30:00] [30:00] ─── Small-Sided Decision IQ Games (30 Min) ───► [60:00] [60:00] ─── Tactical Shell & Alignment Triggers (40 Min) ───► [100:00] [100:00] ── Fatigue-Phase eFG% Under Pressure (20 Min) ───► [120:00] 1. 00:00 to 10:00 | Dynamic Activation & Communication Triggers2. 10:00 to 30:00 | Multi-Ball Rep Density Skill Blocks3. 30:00 to 60:00 | Small-Sided Games ($SSGs$) & Decision IQ4. 60:00 to 100:00 | Tactical Shell & Dynamic Scramble Coverages5. 100:00 to 120:00 | Fatigue-Phase $eFG%$ & Pressure ExecutionPractice Flow Audit: The Operational Leak vs. The Championship StandardPractice VariableThe Sluggish Operational Leak (Level 2)The High-Density Championship Standard (Level 4)Coach Lecture Time5+ minute explanations on the whiteboard; standing60-second "drive-by" technical corrections on the moveRoster ActivityOne player drills while eleven players watch in lineMulti-Ball spacing; continuous concurrent actionsDrill TransitionCasual walking, grabbing water bottles sluggishlySprinted transitions; policed fiercely by The OrganizerLocker Room PulseCoach-Fed compliance; waiting to be told to talkPlayer-Led autonomy; athletes owning the environmentYouTube SEO Strategy Learn more about your ad choices. 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The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer
Oppressive Heat Threatens July 4 Celebrations

The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 3, 2026 84:41


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Basketball Coach Unplugged ( A Basketball Coaching Podcast)
Ep 1963 The Practice Planning / Architecture: Designing a High-Transfer

Basketball Coach Unplugged ( A Basketball Coaching Podcast)

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 2, 2026 36:03


https://teachhoops.com/ If you walk into a gym and see a coach spending twenty minutes leaning against a wall explaining a drill, followed by players standing in a single line waiting to take a shot, you are witnessing an operational failure. Time is the most valuable resource a coach has. If your practice design is slow, loose, and lecture-heavy, you are actively coding sluggish habits into your roster. In a level 4 championship program, practice is an intentional, high-speed ecosystem designed around Activity Density and Sensory Load. You don't build a cohesive, resilient team by accident; you build it by engineering an environment that forces continuous decision-making under physical exhaust. This masterclass blueprint breaks down how to structure your practice timeline to maximize repetition density, protect your players' mechanics, and move your team from basic compliance to absolute player-led ownership. Every block of your practice script must have a precise time limit enforced by The Organizer (your Chief of Staff) to eliminate dead time and keep the energy soaring. The Setup: No static stretching on the baseline. Players move through high-tempo physical activation patterns (lunges, skips, defensive slides) across the full court. The Standard: This isn't a quiet warm-up. Players must continuously shout out defensive commands, echoing coverages through the gym to establish high vocal energy before a single basketball is rolled out. The Setup: High-speed ball handling, passing, and finishing tracks. The Constraint: Every single drill must feature a Multi-Ball architecture. If you have twelve players on your roster, at least $70%$ of them must be moving, catching, or passing simultaneously. Lines are banned. The Analytical Return: Maximizing your Rep Density eliminates boredom leaks and builds rapid motor-skill development under a elevated heart rate. The Setup: Transition from isolated skill work into contextual 2-on-2, 3-on-3, or 4-on-4 games. The Execution: Implement tight rules or constraints (e.g., maximum 2 dribbles per touch, or the offense must touch the paint within 4 seconds). The Goal: This forces players to read the defender's hips and build independent, zero-second Decision IQ rather than playing like robotic actors waiting for a joystick instruction from the sideline. The Setup: 5-on-5 half-court and full-court system alignment. This is where you install your primary offensive cutting geometry and your defensive shell (such as an aggressive match-up zone or a trapping 1-3-1 alignment). The Standard: Hold an unyielding Standard of Tolerance. If a defender fails to close out with High Hands or a player shows poor body language after a turnover, The Antagonist stops the clock instantly. You address it in the "Truth Room," correct the alignment, and demand elite Next Play Speed. The Setup: Full-court transition shooting or live situational scrimmaging (e.g., down 4 with 45 seconds left and no timeouts). The Critical Filter: Many coaches put their shooting blocks at the beginning of practice when everyone is fresh. We intentionally place precision execution at the absolute end when legs are heavy and lungs are burning. This is where you build Resilience Equity, forcing players to lock into their mechanics and maximize their Effective Field Goal Percentage ($eFG%$) under extreme physical exhaust. Coach's Note: "Championship habits aren't forged under the bright lights of a Friday night gym; they are built during those quiet, exhausting Tuesday practices in the middle of January when nobody is watching. If your practice script allows for laziness, silences, or long gaps of standing around, you are teaching your kids how to lose. Clean up your clock management, maximize your rep density, challenge their decision IQ, and let your collective culture carry the standard." Title Ideas: How to Structure a High-Efficiency Basketball Practice Plan Stop Wasting Gym Time! (The Ultimate Basketball Practice Blueprint) How to Design Basketball Drills for Maximum Rep Density Primary Keywords: Basketball practice planning, high school basketball practice script, TeachHoops, Coach Collins, basketball practice organization, small-sided games basketball, practice activity density. Secondary Keywords: Effective Field Goal Percentage analytics, rep density basketball drills, coaching staff roles, standard of tolerance, decision IQ constraints, next play speed resilience, player-led team culture. Description Snippet: "Are your basketball practices slow, boring, or unorganized? In this video, we break down the definitive blueprint for basketball practice planning and high-efficiency script design. Discover how to eliminate long lines and boring lectures using multi-ball architectures, how to boost your team's decision IQ with targeted small-sided games, and how to structure your shooting drills under heavy fatigue to maximize your team's game-night eFG%." Suggested Tags: #BasketballCoaching #TeachHoops #CoachCollins #PracticePlanning #PracticeDesign #BasketballDrills #HighSchoolBasketball #CoachingTips Are you utilizing this 120-minute practice framework to design your upcoming summer league training sessions where you want to focus heavily on fast-paced transition skill work, or are you looking to adapt this timeline for a youth basketball camp to ensure your younger players stay continuously engaged and active? Show NotesThe Chronological Practice Engine (The 120-Minute Masterpiece)[00:00] ─── Dynamic Activation & High-Hands Prep (10 Min) ───► [10:00] [10:00] ─── Multi-Ball Rep Density Skill Blocks (20 Min) ───► [30:00] [30:00] ─── Small-Sided Decision IQ Games (30 Min) ───► [60:00] [60:00] ─── Tactical Shell & Alignment Triggers (40 Min) ───► [100:00] [100:00] ── Fatigue-Phase eFG% Under Pressure (20 Min) ───► [120:00] 1. 00:00 to 10:00 | Dynamic Activation & Communication Triggers2. 10:00 to 30:00 | Multi-Ball Rep Density Skill Blocks3. 30:00 to 60:00 | Small-Sided Games ($SSGs$) & Decision IQ4. 60:00 to 100:00 | Tactical Shell & Dynamic Scramble Coverages5. 100:00 to 120:00 | Fatigue-Phase $eFG%$ & Pressure ExecutionPractice Flow Audit: The Operational Leak vs. The Championship StandardPractice VariableThe Sluggish Operational Leak (Level 2)The High-Density Championship Standard (Level 4)Coach Lecture Time5+ minute explanations on the whiteboard; standing60-second "drive-by" technical corrections on the moveRoster ActivityOne player drills while eleven players watch in lineMulti-Ball spacing; continuous concurrent actionsDrill TransitionCasual walking, grabbing water bottles sluggishlySprinted transitions; policed fiercely by The OrganizerLocker Room PulseCoach-Fed compliance; waiting to be told to talkPlayer-Led autonomy; athletes owning the environmentYouTube SEO Strategy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices