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Send us Fan MailIn this episode, Xay Khamsyvoravong shares his insights on running for Lieutenant Governor, the importance of results-oriented leadership, and how to reconnect with disheartened voters in a polarized political landscape. His perspective offers a clear blueprint for engaging communities and addressing systemic frustrations.Key Topics:The challenges and rewards of statewide campaigning, especially during a late-start election cycleHow local issues like health care and infrastructure shape state-wide voter prioritiesThe significance of results-driven leadership demonstrated through Xay's tenure as mayor and utility chairDifferentiating ideological visions within the Democratic primary and the importance of accountabilityThe impact of national political chaos on local voter engagement and how leaders can cut through the noiseThe influence of grassroots movements and community activism, exemplified through the Newport Birthing Center campaignStrategies for managing education funding crises and regionalization challenges on Aquidneck IslandThe importance of fostering long-term solutions around health care and government transparencyTimestamps:00:00 - Introduction to Xay's campaign journey and motivation02:21 - Differences between local and statewide campaigning in Rhode Island04:29 - Voter frustrations with the status quo and local vs. systemic issues06:04 - The role of the Lieutenant Governor's office and addressing partisan politics08:02 - Challenges of conflicting primary candidates and over-politicization10:06 - The importance of accountability versus entertainment in politics12:39 - The Newport Birthing Center: grassroots advocacy and health care priorities16:27 - Education funding crisis and regionalization on Aquidneck Island18:06 - Connecting with disillusioned voters amidst national political chaos20:07 - The broader mission: building trust and solving Rhode Island's systemic problems Support the showFollow Bill on Instagram and YouTube

As America hurtles toward its 250th birthday, the world is watching. Ian Bremmer, Eurasia Group President and PBS host, joins Rapid Response to give his unvarnished read on the state of Brand America. He shares how he's advising business and political leaders around the globe, why he believes the US is overdue for a revolution, and what the widening gap between American wealth and American opportunity means for the country's standing in the world. Bremmer also reveals the defiant way he plans to celebrate July 4th, and makes the case for what it will take to extend the great American experiment another 250 years.Visit the Rapid Response website here: https://www.rapidresponseshow.com/See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Send us Fan MailIn this episode, Congressman Seth Magaziner offers a sharp critique of current Washington policies, explores how corruption and big money influence governance, and shares his vision for reforming American politics ahead of the midterm elections. His insights reveal the deeper struggles behind headlines and the path toward a more accountable, fair government.Key Topics:The chaos and dysfunction within Washington, driven by corrupt interests and elitismThe economics of inequality: tax policies benefiting billionaires and corporations at the expense of working AmericansForeign policy debates, including the risks of military intervention in Iran, Venezuela, and CubaDemocratic Party's strategic approach: combining opposition with an affirmative policy agendaThe impact of AI and emerging technologies on jobs, energy costs, and regulationThe urgent fight to ban insider trading and reform prediction markets in CongressThe debate around gambling, sports betting, and the regulation of online prediction platformsTimestamps:00:00 - The surreal spectacle of a UFC fight on the White House lawn and Washington chaos02:20 - How current administration policies favor elites over working Americans03:42 - The implications of the Iran nuclear deal and international conflicts05:31 - The motives and mental state of President Biden in foreign diplomacy07:16 - Democratic strategy for midterm success: affordability, healthcare, anti-corruption09:54 - The influence of AI on policy, jobs, and energy costs15:00 - The potential of revenue-sharing models like Sanders' Alaska Fund for AI companies16:29 - The risks of insider trading and prediction markets in Congress19:34 - The controversy over online sports betting and gambling regulations21:00 - The importance of transparency and regulation in emerging industriesSupport the showFollow Bill on Instagram and YouTube

In part 2, we see the coverup unravel. Not only did the Reagan administration have to explain damning evidence of arms for hostages, but also the diversion of profits from those arms sales to the Contras, both of which are highly illegal, not to mention hypocritical. Sources:Mayer, Jane, and Doyle McManus. Landslide. HarperCollins, 1 Jan. 1988.PBS. “The Iran-Contra Affair .” Pbs.org, PBS, 2019, www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/reagan-iran/.Webb, Gary. Dark Alliance : The CIA, the Contras, and the Crack Cocaine Explosion. Tiverton, Devon, Old Street, 2015.

Send us Fan MailThank you for tuning in!  On today's episode, I am joined by 3rd-time guest, author and pop culture expert, Mr. Chris Morgan.  In this episode, we discuss our top 5 "hot takes" on 90s pop culture. We did not share our lists until we recorded the episode, and I think you will find our perspectives interesting, unexpected, and hilarious! Here are a few places where you can find Chris:InstagramBooksYardbarkerLetterboxdChris has been on the show on two other occasions.  On the first episode, we talked about '90s television, and on the second, he answered 25 questions about pop culture.  Both episodes were a lot of fun, and I highly recommend checking them out! I also brought up Sticker Mule and the Rewind Envelope on this episode; please check them out! Support the showVisit:  https://www.popcultureretrospective.com/ for all things Pop Culture Retrospective!Listen to the show, along with several other retro-inspired podcasts, and music from the '80s and '90s on the Q106.5 app (or website)!  Follow me on Instagram:  https://www.instagram.com/popcultureretrospective/ Follow me on Twitter!: https://twitter.com/PopCultureRetroReview the show! https://www.popcultureretrospective.com/reviews/new/Pop Culture Retrospective Merch!: https://pop-culture-retrospective-pod.myspreadshop.com/allEmail me anytime: amy@popcultureretrospective.com

The Patsy Cline Theater isn't just an auditorium — it's Winchester's de facto civic center. From Willie Nelson to Vince Gill to Sara Evans, from the Apple Blossom coronations to 35 years of community gatherings, it's where Winchester has shown up for itself. And the seats, after nearly 40 years of student traffic and standing ovations, are showing every bit of their age. On this episode of The Valley Today, host Janet Michael welcomes an old friend back to the show — Larry Weiss, Executive Director of the Winchester Education Foundation — for a conversation about how the Foundation supports Winchester Public Schools and the year-long Community Comfort Campaign to replace all 1,100 seats and the carpeting in the historic theater. Larry walks through the full scope of the Foundation's work — scholarships for graduating Handley seniors, a unique endowment from Mindy Loy that funds continuing education for Handley graduates who come back to teach in Winchester schools, and the brick-and-mortar work that brought the Emil and Grace Shihadeh Innovation Center into existence (now featured in a national PBS-style documentary called Multiple Choice). Plus: a special August benefit concert at the Patsy Cline Theater by Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter Valerie Smith, whose new "musical journal" Maggie's Journal sets her grandmother's post-Civil War handwritten journal to bluegrass, Americana, and roots music — with all proceeds going to the seating campaign. ABOUT THE COMMUNITY COMFORT CAMPAIGN A year-long fundraising campaign by the Winchester Education Foundation to replace all 1,100 seats and the carpeting in the Patsy Cline Theater at John Handley High School — the venue that serves not just the school but the wider Winchester community as a civic center, concert hall, and Apple Blossom event space. Total project cost is estimated at approximately $1 million. New seating and carpeting installation is targeted for summer 2027. WAYS TO PARTICIPATE • $350 names a seat — name tag can honor anyone (teacher, parent, classmate, graduating student) • Purchase an entire row to reunite a graduating class • Take one of the old seats home as a souvenir when they're uninstalled • Any contribution — from $10 to $10,000 — moves the campaign forward • The balcony will be dedicated in honor of Russ Potts • All 1991-era donor name tags will be moved to the new seats, preserving the theater's history BENEFIT CONCERT — VALERIE SMITH'S MAGGIE'S JOURNAL Saturday, August 1, 2026 • 7:00 PM Sunday, August 2, 2026 • 2:00 PM matinee Patsy Cline Theater, John Handley High School LINKS & RESOURCES • Winchester Education Foundation — winchestereducationfoundation.org (click the Community Comfort Campaign graphic on the homepage) • Valerie Smith — thevaleriesmith.com (concert tickets and information) THE VALLEY TODAY with Janet Michael — A decade of conversations. New podcast episodes drop weekdays at 11 AM. Catch the show on The River 95.3 and Fox Sports 1450 AM weekdays just after noon. Subscribe and listen at thevalleytodaypodcast.com — available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and wherever you get your podcasts. If you enjoy the show, please take a moment to leave a rating or review — it helps more listeners find us. Connect with us: Facebook — facebook.com/ValleyTodayFanPage Instagram — instagram.com/thevalleytoday

There's still no new supply of land being built, but the demand side keeps strong as new entrants are looking for places to build data centers, hunting blinds and places to park other investment gains. Doug Adams, the CEO of National Land Realty looks at the big picture playing out now and a four-letter word is the big influence.

The Stock Market explodes as The Iran deal drops this Friday. Obama's response: low-key bitter. Trump hosts UFC 250 on the South Lawn at the WH. Smug lefties like David Brooks at PBS hate it- calling it evidence of cultural decline. Men wearing dresses reading to kids and competing in women's sports was fine, though. Pick a lane.     

As one of 11 remaining Pearl Harbor Survivors, Earl "Chuck" Kohler was honored at the PBS Annual Memorial Day event held on May 24th, 2026. On Dec 7th, 1941, Chuck was working at the PBY Flying Boat base on Pearl Harbor where he was one of the few who were able to fight back against the Japanese raiders. He would continue fighting the Japanese in the Pacific Theatre supporting the deadly "Black Cats" PBY squadrons that decimated Japanese shipping and warships.Listen in as Chuck tells us about his recollection of events that very few still alive today are able to do! Support the show

I recently watched a documentary that was so good, I reached out to the producer and asked her to be my guest. She said yes!  In this episode of Sisternomics, I sit down with Emmy and Peabody Award-winning filmmaker Rita Coburn, director of the PBS documentary W.E.B. Du Bois: Rebel With a Cause. We talk about what drew her to Du Bois, the surprises she uncovered along the way, and why his ideas still resonate more than a century later. Rita also shares her own journey from journalism to documentary filmmaking, the power of telling Black stories on our own terms, and what she's learned about pursuing big dreams later in life. In this episode: Why Rita felt compelled to tell Du Bois's story The four-year journey behind the documentary What most people misunderstand about Du Bois How storytelling shapes history and culture Why it's never too late to pursue your calling Watch the documentary on PBS here: https://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/w-e-b-du-bois-documentary/34807/ on YouTube here: https://youtu.be/I2_GVDDo0N8?si=-y5MaFIsxTlJuA29 Learn more about Rita and her work at her official website. Do me a solid. If this episode resonated with you, please share it, rate it, and leave a review on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, or wherever you listen. Your support helps Sisternomics grow. Our Partner We're honored to be partnered with ProBlk Health, a Black woman-owned supplement company committed to our wellness. Tap in and get a full year of discounts at: http://problkhealth.com/discount/sister20 About Sisternomics Sisternomics is where we unpack what total abundance looks like in real time for real women navigating business, reinvention, money and purpose. This podcast is produced by OverFlow Enterprises, a media and personal development company that centers women over 45 who are ready to tap into their "more."  

Today we have a deep dive:A new museum in downtown Lancaster is dedicated to exploring the legacy of Thaddeus Stevens. He's a 19th century Congressman who fought to end slavery, and he played a major role in shaping the U-S Constitution.A group of teen reporters from Warwick High School in Lancaster County recently covered the museum's opening as part of “PBS News Student Reporting Labs” - that's the youth journalism program from PBS. If you're already a member of WITF's Sustaining Circle, you know how convenient it is to support programs like this. By increasing your monthly gift, you can help WITF close the budget gap left by the loss of federal funding. Visit us online at witf.org/increase or become a new Sustaining Circle member at witf.org/givenow to help build a sustainable future for WITF and public media. Thank you.

Researchers have made a groundbreaking discovery.After studying a surprising turnout surge in Los Angeles' mayoral election, scientists believe they have identified a previously unknown substance responsible for extraordinary civic participation.They're calling it Super-Meth.Universities are launching research programs.Politicians are celebrating.Experts are studying the phenomenon.And Skid Row has officially become California's first Advanced Civic Engagement Community.This is Satire Saturday.#SatireSaturday #PoliticalSatire #Comedy #ChadLawCHAPTERS00:00 Scientists Make A Breakthrough Discovery00:44 The Skid Row Election Mystery01:47 Enhanced Electoral Consciousness02:46 California's First Advanced Civic Engagement Community03:54 Harvard, PBS & The Experts Arrive05:01 The Four Pillars Of Civic Engagement06:12 Democracy Without Barriers07:04 California Innovation07:38 Making Los Angeles More Like Skid Row

The annual G7 summit starts today in France. The normally stuffy, formal affair has been shaken up in recent years by Donald Trump, who has sparred with nearly all of America's allies. So is the G7 still the powerful, united global force it once was? And with China building its own alliance, how should it respond? This podcast was brought to you thanks to the support of readers of The Times and The Sunday Times. Subscribe today: http://thetimes.com/thestoryGuest: Catherine Philp, world affairs editor, The Times. Host: Luke Jones. Producers: Micaela Arneson. We want to hear from you - email: thestory@thetimes.comRead more: How the G7 will look by 2050 — and what it means for usFurther listening: Could China become the world's policeman?Clips: Arirang News, Al Jazeera, BBC News, The Hill, Dawn News English, PBS. Photo: Getty Images.This podcast was brought to you thanks to subscribers of The Times and The Sunday Times. To enjoy unlimited digital access to all our journalism subscribe here. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We don't have a new episode this week, so we're releasing a Patreon episode from the vault: 2022's canceled-too-soon series, A League of Their Own. Join us as we learn about the AAGPBL's weird code of conduct, WWII-era mail censorship, and more! Sources: Full text available at https://www.aagpbl.org/history/rules-of-conduct https://www.aagpbl.org/teams/rockford-peaches/1944  Lisa Taylor/Justina Moloney, "Passed Censor," Folklife Today: American Folklife Center & Veterans History Project, Library of Congress (28 August 2017). https://blogs.loc.gov/folklife/2017/08/passed-censor/  "Victory Mail," National Postal Museum, Smithsonian. https://postalmuseum.si.edu/exhibition/victory-mail and https://youtu.be/tj_LoG7wStY  Myron Fox, "Censorship!" American Experience, PBS (2000). https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/warletters-censorship/  "Letters Home: Wartime Correspondence from the Natale Bellantoni Papers," Hoover Institution Library & Archives https://histories.hoover.org/letters-home/#:~:text=Throughout%20World%20War%20II%2C%20the,hands%20should%20mail%20be%20intercepted. Devan Coggan, "Abbi Jacobson responds to angry reactions to A League of Their Own: 'Representation matters so much'" Entertainment Weekly (15 August 2022). https://ew.com/tv/a-league-of-their-own-reactions-abbi-jacobson-responds/  Rebecca Nicholson, "A League of Their Own review-- this gorgeous baseball drama is about something far bigger than sport," The Guardian (12 August 2022). https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2022/aug/12/a-league-of-their-own-review-baseball-drama-abbi-jacobson-madonna-movie-remake  Jenna Scherer, "A League Of Their Own serves up a whole new crop of Peaches," AV Club (10 August 2022). https://www.avclub.com/a-league-of-their-own-season-1-review-1849391265  Linda Holmes, "New Peaches, new problems: 'A League of Their Own' makes a successful move to TV," NPR (11 August 2022). https://www.npr.org/2022/08/11/1116855780/a-league-of-their-own-2022-amazon-prime-review  Riese, "32 Excerpts From Really Special "League Of Their Own" Reviews Written By Homophobes Who've Had Quite Enough," Autostraddle, (15 August 2022). https://www.autostraddle.com/32-homophobic-league-of-their-own-reviews/  https://youtu.be/1OvULWYcSjQ

Saludos, tripulación de Historias para ser leídas. Bienvenidos a bordo. 🚀💫 Hace tres años iniciamos una misión que quedó fragmentada en el tiempo. Hoy, he unificado las transmisiones. He recopilado todas las bitácoras pasadas para ofreceros el viaje completo, mejor calidad y sin interrupciones rumbo al corazón mismo de la gravedad. 🚀👨‍🚀 Imagina que tú eres el propietario y capitán de una gran nave espacial, con ordenadores, robots y una tripulación de cientos de personas a tus órdenes. La Sociedad Geográfica Mundial te ha asignado la misión de explorar los agujeros negros en regiones lejanas del espacio interestelar y transmitir por radio a la Tierra una descripción de sus experiencias. Tras seis años de viaje, tu nave está decelerando en la vecindad del agujero negro más próximo a la Tierra: un agujero llamado «Hades» cercano a la estrella Vega. En la video pantalla de tu nave, la tripulación y tú observáis manifestaciones de la presencia del agujero: los escasísimos átomos de gas en el espacio interestelar, aproximadamente uno por centímetro cúbico, son atraídos por la gravedad del agujero negro. Las únicas singularidades representadas en las cartas de viaje de su nave son las que están dentro de los agujeros negros, y usted se niega a pagar el precio de la muerte para explorarlas. Pero atención, capitán. El espacio es impredecible y el destino de esta tripulación no está escrito. Al final de este trayecto, la realidad se bifurcará. Os enfrentaréis a una decisión crucial en los límites del horizonte de sucesos: Tendréis que elegir entre dos transmisiones finales que se incluyen en este mismo audio. 🔴OPCION 1 🚀 ✅OPCION 2 🚀 Dos caminos. Dos desenlaces posibles. Dos destinos para un mismo misterio cósmico. Encended los motores de curvatura ¡Comenzamos el viaje! 🚀💫 Thorne comienza llevándonos a un viaje por los agujeros negros y, desde allí, nos hace seguir el descubrimiento de las nuevas concepciones, desde Einstein hasta nuestros días, en una especie de relato histórico sazonado de anécdotas vividas, a lo largo del cual vamos aprendiendo los conceptos básicos, hasta llegar al punto en que agujeros de gusano y máquinas del tiempo nos parecen posibilidades lógicas y comprensibles. Stephen Hawking calificó esta historia como «un relato fascinante», y dijo: todos cuantos aman los misterios científicos disfrutarán con él. Comenzamos el viaje....! Este relato ha sido escrito por Kip Stephen Thorne (Logan, Utah, 1940), físico teórico estadounidense, conocido por sus contribuciones prolíficas en física, astrofísica y gravitación. Gran amigo y colega de Stephen Hawking y Carl Sagan, ocupó la cátedra «Profesor Feynman» de Física Teórica en el Instituto de Tecnología de California hasta el año 2009, y es uno de los mayores expertos sobre las implicaciones astrofísicas de la teoría general de la relatividad de Einstein. Ha escrito y editado libros sobre temas de teoría de la gravedad y astrofísica de alta energía. En 1973, fue coautor del libro de texto clásico Gravitation , con Charles Misner y John Wheeler, del que la mayor parte de la actual generación de científicos han aprendido la teoría de la relatividad general. En 1994, publicó Agujeros negros y tiempo curvo: el escandaloso legado de Einstein , un libro de referencia para los no científicos por el que recibió numerosos premios y que ha sido publicado en seis idiomas. Su trabajo ha aparecido en revistas y enciclopedias, tales como Scientific American , McGraw-Hill Yearbook of Science and Technology y la Collier's Encyclopedia , entre muchos otros, y ha publicado más de 150 artículos en revistas especializadas. Ha presentado diversos programas de la PBS estadounidense (televisión pública) y la BBC inglesa sobre temas como los agujeros negros, las ondas gravitatorias, la relatividad, el viaje en el tiempo y los agujeros de gusano. La lista de premios, reconocimientos y honores recibidos es larga y variada: Science Writing Award in Physics and Astronomy del American Institute of Physics; Science Writing Award de la Phi Beta Kappa Society; Karl Schwarzschild Medal por la German Astronomical Society ; Robinson Prize in Cosmology por la Universidad de Newcastle; California Scientist of the Year Award por el California Science Center; Medalla Albert Einstein (2009) por la Sociedad de Albert Einstein (Berna, Suiza), etc. Una producción de Historias para ser Leídas, Voz: Olga Paraíso, música y efectos Epidemic Sound, gracias al artista Lotus (Licencia autorizada para este Podcast). Muchísimas gracias a los taberneros galácticos que apoyan este podcast, vamos rumbo a las estrellas,🌌🚀 ¿nos acompañas? Puedes apoyar mi trabajo desde el botón azul APOYAR por tan solo 1,99 € al mes. Credit Imagen Shutterstock Escucha el episodio completo en la app de iVoox, o descubre todo el catálogo de iVoox Originals

Filmmaker Billy Luther talks with Sandy about his coming-of-age film, ‘Frybread Face and Me,' which was executive-produced by Taika Waititi and distributed by Ava DuVernay's company, Array, on Netflix.Written and directed by Billy, ‘Frybread Face and Me' was selected for SXSW 2023's Narrative Spotlight and TIFF 2023's Discovery and New Wave Selects. Billy's feature documentary, Miss Navajo, premiered at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival and aired nationally on PBS' Independent Lens that same year.Billy has also served as a writer and director on the hit AMC series Dark Winds, adapting Tony Hillerman's novels featuring Navajo tribal police investigations.You can watch ‘Frybread Face and Me,” ‘Miss Navajo,' and all of Billy's films for free on his website here: https://billyluther.comIf you have Netflix, go watch ‘Frybread Face and Me' right now!  Pick up the remote, click the link.  Do.  The PAGE International Screenwriting Awards sponsors the WRITERS' HANGOUT.Executive Producer Kristin OvernCreator/Executive Producer Sandy AdomaitisProducer Terry SampsonMusic by Ethan Stoller

Ralph talks to journalist and M.Div. Chris Hedges about Pope Leo XIV's encyclical on artificial intelligence. Then, Ralph speaks with Rick Engler (former member of the US Chemical Safety and Hazards Investigation Board) about Trump's proposed closing of that agency. Finally, Ralph pays tribute to some recently departed friends.Chris Hedges is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, who spent nearly two decades as a foreign correspondent in Central America, the Middle East, Africa and the Balkans. He is the host of The Chris Hedges Report, and he is a prolific author— his latest book is A Genocide Foretold: Reporting on Survival and Resistance in Occupied Palestine.I think that Pope Leo kind of missed the point of AI. In that he describes that it could be a positive force for Catholic education (these are his words), compassionate health care, creative platforms that tell the Christian story with truth and beauty. I think those were all indications to me that he didn't quite understand what AI is about. It's not about education, it's not about compassion, it's not about truth, and it's not about beauty. It is a very pernicious force that will go beyond, of course, replacing all sorts of labor, but creating a world where fact and fiction are blurred together.Chris HedgesI think that mass organization is kind of all we have left as we barrel towards an authoritarian state. Congress doesn't function, certainly doesn't function as Congress was designed to function. They have surrendered their traditional constitutional authority, including, of course, the call for Congress to declare war. And this kind of unitary executive branch—this was put into place, by the way, before Trump. He's just taken advantage of it…And I think that it's absolutely fundamental that we recapture that kind of militancy, that kind of organized workforce that has traditionally throughout our history been such an important corrective to democracy—along with, of course, journalism.Chris HedgesRick Engler is a former U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board member and labor advocate who founded the New Jersey Work Environment Council. He has advocated for successful landmark state and national public policies that ensure workers and the public's “right to know” about potential chemical dangers, and that promote safer processes, chemical incident prevention, and whistleblower protection.The CSB is unique. I mean, nobody would think of abolishing the National Transportation Safety Board. And no one should think about abolishing the Chemical Safety Board, which does the same thing. It's not about issuing, in this case, fines or violations. It's about trying to understand the underlying causes of what led to these incidents.Rick Engler[Trump's allies] have a certain religious fervor about this. When I talk to plant managers, the plant managers of the corporations are much more careful and nuanced in most cases. They don't want their own plants to explode. But somewhere at the higher corporate levels, I think they're just willing to take the risks that the tradeoff for them is: Trump is supporting them in so many ways, why interfere? Why become part of some nuanced opposition to the most extreme EPA attacks? But I do think the elimination of the CSB is driven by the Trump administration in a way that wouldn't be happening if it was just left to the chemical industry trade associations alone. I'm not sure that's an adequate answer. I'm actually kind of puzzled by it. Because it's also really clear that if there was any one major incident, it would cost so much money—not only in the human tragedy of the lives lost and neighbors harmed and evacuations and shelter-in-place and property damage, but these incidents destroy facilities.Rick EnglerNews 6/12/26* Our top stories this week come to us from California, where, after an excruciatingly protracted wait, authorities have finally called some of the most high-profile races. In Los Angeles, Democratic Socialist City Councilwoman Nithya Raman has secured the second slot in the mayoral race, beating out reactionary former reality television star Spencer Pratt, PBS reports. Pratt garnered significant attention from conservative media for his slick AI-generated ads and his false claims about living in an airstream trailer after his LA home burned down in the recent fires. In actuality, he was living in the posh Bel Air hotel, billed as a campaign expense, per TMZ. Now the question becomes whether or not Raman will be able to expand her coalition to unseat incumbent Mayor Karen Bass in November.* If Raman's victory is the good news however, the bad news is that Trump-endorsed Republican Steve Hilton will advance in the gubernatorial race. He will face off against former California Attorney General and Secretary of Health and Human Services Xavier Becerra, who has accepted large campaign contributions from the California Association of Realtors, the California Medical Association and even Chevron, per CalMatters. This outcome means progressive billionaire Tom Steyer will not advance. Many are placing the blame for this on former Congresswoman Katie Porter, who remained in the race despite clearly failing to achieve any real viability throughout the race. This has drawn comparisons to Elizabeth Warren's perceived role as a spoiler candidate vis-a-vis Bernie Sanders in the 2020 Democratic Primary, particularly since Porter is a highly visible protégé of Senator Warren. In his concession speech, Steyer closed by telling his supporters “Pay attention. Know what you deserve, and know who is on your side. Understand who the villains are, and say their names out loud. Continue to demand more from your leaders and your government, until they give you the California – and the country – you know you deserve. I will be with you all the way.”* Elsewhere in California however, progressives scored major victories. In California's 22nd congressional district, Bernie Sanders-backed Randy Villegas secured a spot in the top two, beating out his opponent Jasmine Bains, who enjoyed the backing of AIPAC and 53 corporate donors, according to the American Prospect. He will face Republican incumbent Congressman David Valadao in November. Even more impressive is the victory of progressive challenger Mai Vang in California's 7th district primary, where she actually emerged as the top vote getter, beating out longtime incumbent Congresswoman Doris Matsui. However, because Matsui, who is 81 years old, won the second-most votes, she will still advance to the general election.* Another much-anticipated primary was held this week on the exact other end of the country. In Maine, Graham Platner trounced his opponents in the Democratic Senate race, winning over 70% of the vote despite a concerted campaign against him in the national press. In his victory speech, CNN reports Platner wrote off the smears, saying “They don't know Maine.” Furthermore, he said “If you believe, as I do, that we can change our politics, and change our country, then you must also believe that people can change…To all those who feel let down, disappointed, or disillusioned. It is my job to earn your trust, your faith, and your support. And I will spend every day of this campaign, and if I have the privilege, every day in the United States Senate, doing exactly that.” Platner will face off against five-term incumbent Senator Susan Collins in a race that will be decisive if Democrats are to have any chance of retaking the Senate in the 2026 midterms.* Turning towards the plains, two candidates are starting to show a surprising level of viability in heavily Republican, rural states. First, in Idaho, Todd Achilles is running as an independent against Republican incumbent Senator Jim Risch. Achilles served as a tank commander and armor officer in the Army before a varied career in the corporate world, education and now politics, according to Independent Voter News. The most striking development in this race is a new poll showing that while “Achilles starts out…behind by 14 points at 48-34…once voters hear biographical information about him and negative messaging about Senator Risch, he gains a full 17 points…[leading] Risch, 41% to 38%.” If accurate, this would be a stunningly close race in a state where registered Republicans outnumber registered Democrats by a margin greater than 5-to-1.* In South Dakota, Brian Bengs, another veteran turned educator – turned, in this case, National Park Ranger – is running shockingly close to incumbent Republican Senator Mike Rounds in a head-to-head matchup. According to the South Dakota Standard, the latest polling shows Rounds leading Bengs 44% to 40%, with 16% undecided. Moreover, like the Achilles poll, when voters are given biographical information about Bengs and negative messaging about Senator Rounds, that margin flips to 44% in favor of Bengs, compared to just 42% for Rounds. If these polls are accurate and independent candidates – not just Achilles and Bengs but also Dan Osborn in Nebraska and Seth Bodnar in Montana – prove viable, perhaps even victorious, in states long seen as out of reach for non-Republicans, there will have to be a serious reckoning with the toxicity of the Democratic Party brand in the American heartland.* In Michigan, progressive candidate Abdul El-Sayed has picked up perhaps the most critical possible endorsement in the state: that of the United Auto Workers. In a statement, the union wrote that “UAW members in Michigan want a fighter in Washington, D.C. who isn't afraid to push forward a strong working-class agenda with moral clarity…From Medicare for All to banning stock buybacks, Dr. Abdul El-Sayed is ready, eager, and well-equipped to move our core issues in the U.S. Senate.” Whether because of this endorsement or not, El-Sayed now seems to be in the driver's seat in this primary. This endorsement dovetails with UAW President Shawn Fain's rumored frustration with the mainstream labor movement for not doing more to back labor candidates, such as Clare Valdez in New York, who was a UAW organizer before entering the State Assembly.* On the House floor meanwhile, lame-duck dissident Republican Congressman Thomas Massie delivered a barn-burner of a speech this week, demanding that the government reopen the investigation into the 1967 Israeli attack on the USS Liberty, Al Jazeera reports. The attack on the Liberty, a US Navy vessel, killed 34 service members and injured 171 others. For decades, Israel has claimed that this was nothing more than an accidental incident of friendly fire, but the surviving veterans have long disputed this explanation, contending that it was a deliberate attack, either as a “false flag operation or because they simply didn't want anybody observing what they were doing that day.” Massie called on the House to “give them closure…It's long overdue. And then they can have their justice.”* Looking to Latin America, the presidential election in Peru is, predictably, coming down to a razor thin margin, WLRN reports. This race, between left-wing Senator Roberto Sánchez and Keiko Fujimori, perennial presidential candidate and daughter of former dictator Alberto Fujimori, currently stands at 50.004% for Fujimori and 49.996% for Sánchez, with 98.258% of the votes tabulated. Sánchez was favored to win after the in-country votes were counted, then Fujimori pulled ahead when the votes from Miami came in, other absentee votes eroded that margin and gave Sánchez the edge once again but Fujimori has yet again pulled ahead by a hair. This is Fujimori's fourth presidential campaign, making it to the runoff each time but ultimately losing by the narrowest of margins.* Finally, in Colombia, Progressive International reports that while Colombian President Gustavo Petro presides at the United Nations Security Council, “conservative forces in the country's legislature have conspired against the constitution to ‘SUSPEND' his presidency — just 11 days from the run-off presidential election.” While Reuters adds that the proposal must be “debated and approved by all ‌16 ⁠members of the [legislative Commission of Investigation and ​Accusation] and subsequently by the Senate before it can take effect,” it is hard to see this as anything besides an opportunistic grab for power while the proverbial cat is away. Petro's four-year term ends in August; the runoff in the presidential election, between leftist Ivan Cepeda and right-wing lawyer Abelardo ​De La Espriella, will be held on ​June 21st.This has been Francesco DeSantis, with In Case You Haven't Heard. Get full access to Ralph Nader Radio Hour at www.ralphnaderradiohour.com/subscribe

Welcome to the show! Today, we're stepping into the high-stakes world of underground competition with a look at the upcoming Spanish-language thriller, Queen of Shock.Written and directed by Emmy-winning documentarian and former PBS producer Robyn Symon, this feature is set to make its world premiere next month at Dances With Films in Los Angeles. Shot entirely in Mexico with a local cast and crew, the film takes a fascinating piece of Mexican culture and pushes it to a cinematic extreme.The story centers on the real-world game that is a test of endurance where people voluntarily shock themselves with electricity. In Queen of Shock, this tradition is reimagined as a brutal, viral underground circuit. We follow a struggling single mother who is forced into these escalating electrical matches in a desperate bid to save her kidnapped daughter.Joining us on the podcast is Robyn Symon to discuss:The process of adapting a real cultural tradition into genre cinema.The technical challenges of creating intense underground competition sequences.Her experience directing a Spanish-language feature in Mexico.The creative leap from documentary filmmaking into the world of narrative thrillers.It's a gripping conversation about a film that explores the intersection of survival and viral sensation.Support the Show: If you enjoy these conversations, please take a moment to subscribe and leave a review on your favorite podcast platform. It's the best way to help more film lovers find the show!

In this truly EPIC episode the Bo-Hosts welcome recording artist, performer, producer, inventor, Emmy award-winning composer, and music education advocate Mark Wood, who PBS has dubbed "The Eddie Van Halen of the Violin World"!Mark has appeared alongside some of the biggest names in music such as Billy Joel, Celine Dion, and Lenny Kravitz.  As a member of Billy Joel's touring band, Wood shared the stage with Paul McCartney, Steven Tyler, and Roger Daltrey, and was also an original member of the multi-platinum selling, internationally acclaimed Trans Siberian Orchestra. A successful solo artist in his own right, Wood writes and records original music for film and television, has released seven solo albums, tours with his band The Mark Wood Experience (MWE). Mark also devotes his energies to empowering America's music programs with his groundbreaking music education program Electrify Your Symphony (EYS), currently celebrating its 25th anniversary.EYS helps raise the much-needed funds for school music departments across America, and recently he and his EYS musicians performed an incredible cover of Van Halen's "Dreams", from the epic 1986 album, 5150.Sit back an enjoy this very special episode; you can't help but be inspired by Mark's passion for music and his perseverance  to always "go beyond your intended mission!”Mark and his Orchestra's cover of  Van Halen's "DREAMS":https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LB-a8koQLeIhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qimdiP9JpJYFollow Mark here:https://www.markwoodmusic.com/abouthttps://www.facebook.com/MarkWoodMusic/https://www.instagram.com/markwoodexperiencehttps://www.tiktok.com/@markwoodmusic?lang=enhttps://www.youtube.com/markwoodtvMark's incredible Ted Talk:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRaD4wWa864&t=97s"What is understood...NEED be discussed"Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100085582159917Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thebogusotisshow/?hl=enX:https://x.com/BogusOtisShowYouTube:https://www.youtube.com/@TheBogusOtisShowTik Tok:https://www.tiktok.com/@thebogusotisshowConnect with the Bo-Hosts:bogusotisshow@gmail.com

Today on Bit Public Radio, Host Luke Bovard explores the strange and unpredictable world of misconception. Correspondent Angelina Washington reports from Troy, New York, where a Flag Day celebration honoring Uncle Sam escalates into civic confusion, alphabet panic, and unexpected papal involvement. Next, Mandy Keyes investigates food misconceptions at a farmer's market in Pashook, Iowa, where a simple question about tomatoes leads to nightshade conspiracies, unusual educational materials, and some deeply confusing ideas about reproduction. Finally, in her first-ever field report, Gail "Shut Up Gail" Shephard accidentally investigates immaculate conception instead of misconception, uncovering mysterious pregnancies, impossible football outcomes, secret societies, and gardening techniques that defy explanation. Misunderstandings were made. Conclusions were reached. Facts became optional. Apologies Residents of Troy, New York, Uncle Sam,   Karate schools, karate students, karate parents, people named Xavier, Xander, and Yolanda, Zachary; Sesame Street, literacy advocates, the Vatican, Pope Leo, RC Cola, Fanta, farmer's markets, tomato growers, eggplant farmers, nightshade researchers, conspiracy theorists, sex education teachers, bananas, tomatoes, condom manufacturers, PBS cooking programs, Las Vegas sportsbooks, giant communities, golden geese, secret student societies, ACE Award nominees, workplace birthday cards. Also... SHUT UP GAIL! Credits Director and Creator: Billy Merritt Producer, Editor & Graphics: Hill Kane Featuring: Billy Merritt - Himself  Luke Bovard - Himself  Angela Washko  - Angelina Washington Amanda Keyes - Lisa Steckman Gail Shephard - Hill Kane Amber Bellsdale, Brent Kohler, Don Slovin, Jim Tripp and Katya Vasilaky - various and sundry characters and oddball sound effects. Music: BPR Theme Song: Lyrics Hill Kane, musical composition created on SUNO AI Hosting: Libsyn "The BIT" and "The BIT Improv Comedy Network" are trademarks owned by Billy Merritt. © 2024–2026 Billy Merritt. All rights reserved. Inquiries: TheBitComedyNetwork@gmail.com Website: BITComedyNetwork.com  Production + Graphics: Hill Kane, Raising Kane Media + Marketing

Send us Fan MailIn this episode, we dive into the creative process behind Rafay's new record "Wild Rock Dove," the importance of groove and danceability in music, and how indie music continues to evolve in a crowded landscape. We also explore the challenges and opportunities Rhode Island's capital offers for artists and the role of community spaces like Rec Room. This candid conversation reveals how artists adapt, innovate, and stay connected to their roots.In this episode:Rafay shares the genesis of "Wild Rock Dove" and how shifting instrumentation influenced the soundThe importance of groove, danceability, and physicality in modern indie musicInsights into Rafay's upcoming live show opening for Spoon and the significance of regional collaborationsHow indie music is exploring both minimalism and maximalism, with influences from ESG to PorchesThe current state of Providence's creative scene and what might be missing for its full cultural potentialFuture plans for Rec Room, including community programming and artist curatorial opportunitiesTimestamps:00:00 - Introduction to Rafay and his new album "Wild Rock Dove"00:37 - The songwriting process: from 2019 to the album release01:36 - How changing instrumentation shaped the record's groove focus02:13 - Creating a unique sound with bass-driven tracks and minimalist influences03:16 - Elements of danceability and physicality in Rafay's music03:43 - The role of groove in performance and audience engagement04:11 - Upcoming show at Fett with Spoon and Providence's musical ecosystem04:56 - The path to booking meaningful regional shows through organic connections06:10 - Enduring innovation in indie music and maintaining relevance with age07:05 - Meeting Spoon for the first time and building community ties07:47 - The current landscape of indie music: experimentation and diversity08:17 - Exploring the influence of global and regional identities in the indie scene09:46 - The impact of broader cultural scenes like Porches' Mask10:01 - How listener preferences are shaping the future of musical creation10:28 - The state of Providence's creative scene and its challenges11:19 - Urban development and the potential for reinvigorating downtown Providence12:26 - Future plans for Rec Room: community-centered programming, artist collaborations, and exhibitions13:15 - Closing thoughts and upcoming initiatives at Rec RoomSupport the showFollow Bill on Instagram and YouTube

Protein recommendations have changed and not everyone is happy about it. Here's what the new federal protein guidelines actually mean for your health, and why the pushback is missing the point.A recent PBS article argued that doubling the current protein guidelines would push people toward junk food and processed products. But as a cardiologist, Dr. Bret Scher explains why that concern, while understandable, is misplaced. The real issue isn't the target. It's the message around how to hit it.In this discussion, you'll learn:Why the original 0.8g/kg recommendation was never designed for optimal metabolic healthWhat research shows about protein intake in the range of 1.2 to 1.6g/kgHow higher protein supports satiety, body composition, and glucose controlWhy certain groups like teenagers, athletes, and older adults need even moreHow plant vs. animal protein sources differ in bioavailability and practicalityWhy whole food sources like eggs, fish, meat, and legumes are the answer, not protein bars and packaged productsGetting more protein doesn't mean reaching for a bar or a wrapper. It means eating real food that your body knows how to use. The old 0.8g recommendation was designed to prevent decline, not to support metabolic thriving.

As Halle Stanford drove through Topanga Canyon in Southern California, with Dolly Parton blasting from the car speakers, she was struck by a moment of inspiration. “I had this vision of a little hedgehog on the side of the road in her little pink hiking boots, with her guitar in her bag, out to find the wows of the world,” says Stanford, an independent television producer. A few days later, she came across research from UC Berkeley's Greater Good Science Center showing that awe — the emotion we experience when we encounter vast mysteries that we don't understand — inspires us to care for the planet and one another. “And I was like, ‘Bingo, that's it.'”That connection became the basis for Wowsabout, a new Jim Henson Company puppet preschool special on PBS designed to bring awe to young audiences. Created by Stanford and puppeteer Dorien Davies, the 30-minute special maps the journeys of Roxy, a free-spirited hedgehog, and Ronald, a fastidious city pig, as they explore Sequoia National Park. Together, they experience moments of awe, like when standing beneath towering Sequoias and watching migrating California tortoiseshell butterflies. And they meet others along the way, including Pekan, a puppet representing the endangered southern Sierra Nevada fisher who guides them to see historic pictographs carved into the park's rock formations. Awe isn't a luxury emotion, but an evolutionary necessity, says Dacher Keltner, a Berkeley psychology professor and the founding director of the Greater Good Science Center. “It makes kids kinder, it makes kids more creative. … Awe really helps kids stay curious, and be in love with big ideas.”Keltner has studied the science of awe for more than a decade, and in 2023 published the book Awe: The New Science of Everyday Wonder and How It Can Transform Your Life. He served as a science consultant and co-executive producer for Wowsabout. In this episode of Berkeley Talks, Stanford and Davies join Keltner and others from the Greater Good Science Center — education director Vicki Zakrzewski and parenting program director Maryam Abdullah — in a talk moderated by Sarah Bracken, education outreach and school partnerships manager at the center. The group discusses the logistical hurdles of translating wonder into film and why cultivating everyday curiosity has become an essential antidote to modern social disconnection. The conversation took place on May 13 and was hosted by the Greater Good Science Center. Watch a video of the panel discussion. (The screening of Wowsabout was removed from the recording for copyright reasons.) Audiences can watch the full Wowsabout special for free on PBS Kids.Listen to the episode and read the transcript on UC Berkeley News (news.berkeley.edu/podcasts/berkeley-talks).Music by by HoliznaCC0.Photo courtesy of The Jim Henson Company. It's a screenshot from Wowsabout that shows Ronald, the pig puppet, sitting on a mossy log in a forest campsite, smiling happily while holding a park booklet. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Send us Fan MailIn this episode, Gary Sasse—a respected Rhode Island policy expert and moderate Republican—shares his nuanced perspective on the evolving landscape of the Republican Party post-Trump. We explore the internal factions shaping its future, the strategic principles guiding reform, and the challenges of messaging in today's media environment.Key Topics:The three factions of the Republican Party: MAGA populism, traditional conservatives, and the alternative rightHow these factions interact and influence party dynamicsThe importance of a pragmatic, issue-based approach grounded in core principlesStrategies for rebuilding the party's relevance amid media and demographic hurdlesThe potential for moderate Republican voices to shape the future in Rhode Island and beyondThe impact of social media, media bias, and internal party divisions on message disseminationPractical policy ideas, including economic development, affordable housing, and AI innovationThe significance of civil discourse, fact-based debate, and national unity as a foundation for renewalTimestamps:00:00 - Introducing Gary Sasse: Rhode Island's moderate Republican voice02:00 - Gary's background: nonprofit, policy work, and political roles03:00 - Breakdown of Republican factions: MAGA, traditional, and alt right04:00 - Why classifying factions helps understand internal party struggles05:00 - The importance of identity: MAGA voters and their long-term loyalty06:00 - Democratic Party shift left and its implications for the center07:00 - Six core principles guiding a pragmatic Republican approach08:00 - Principles include rejecting extremism, fiscal responsibility, and peace through strength09:00 - Policy focus areas: AI, economic strategy, and housing solutions10:00 - Challenges and opportunities in Rhode Island's political environment11:00 - Messaging hurdles: media landscape and demographic shifts12:00 - The Trump factor: its hold on a third of the party13:00 - Strategies for growth: grassroots organizing and modern communication14:00 - The importance of fact-based debate and civil discourse15:00 - Building a sustainable, issue-focused Republican future in Rhode Island and nationally16:00 - How to position for 2028 and avoid being sidelined by intra-party conflicts17:00 - Final reflections: optimism for pragmatic solutions and party renewalResources & Links:Gary Sasse's profile and workThe Hill Opinion Piece on Future of GOPConnect with Gary Sasse:LinkedInTwitterSupport the showFollow Bill on Instagram and YouTube

Allen Nejah, CEO and System Solution Architect of SunMan Engineering, is driven by a lifelong passion for aerospace, invention, and solving complex engineering problems. From dreaming of becoming an astronaut as a child to working with major aerospace, defense, automotive, medical, robotics, IoT, and semiconductor organizations, Allen has built a career around turning ambitious technical ideas into real-world systems. We explore The Allen Nejah Engineering Framework — Live with Integrity, Be Intensely Curious, Get Organized, Plan Every Baby Step, and Learn from Mistakes — a practical mindset for building breakthrough technologies with discipline and resilience. Allen explains why integrity must exist not only in business relationships but also in the engineering itself, how complex projects must be broken into testable steps, and why curiosity, visualization, planning, and iteration are essential to solving problems across industries. He also shares the story behind InfiniGear, his AI-powered adaptive transmission system, and the healthcare technology inspired by his mother's experience in assisted care. — Building the Connected Car Before the iPhone with Allen Nejah  Good day, dear listeners. Steve Preda here with the Management Blueprint Podcast, and my guest today is Allen Nejah, the CEO and System Solution Architect of SunMan Engineering, dedicated to providing customers with high-quality, on-time engineering and on-budget solutions for their product development and prototyping needs. Allen, welcome to the show.  Yes, that is correct.  Great to have you on the show. And I’d like to ask you my favorite first question: What is your personal ‘Why,’ and how are you manifesting it in your business?  So Steve, first I want to thank you for having me on your podcast. I really appreciate your time and interest. Of course.  As a kid, for whatever reason, I always wanted to have an airplane manufacturing company, an aircraft manufacturing company—something I always wanted to have. And I always wanted to be an astronaut. As a matter of fact, I studied aerospace and mechanical engineering with the dream of being an astronaut, going to fly and all that. So that’s kind of something that’s still in my pocket and that I still want to do. From there, it kind of pushed me in this direction. And yeah, now I work with a number of different companies in the aerospace industry. I work with the Air Force. I’ve worked with Lockheed Martin, Boeing, and a number of others. And I work on both space and aviation projects that really kind of bring my dream to life. So I still haven’t gone to outer space yet, but I still have a little more time.  Yeah. Elon Musk is promising a million people, and his bonus is linked to putting a million people on Mars as the first colony. So there may still be room there.  They need a lot of us to go there, trust me. Well, actually, we’re going to do a lot of activities on the Moon first, and then from there, I’m sure they’re going to be looking for older people, older men, to do some tasks over there. And I’d volunteer to go.  You may be familiar with the Mars trilogy—Red Mars, Green Mars, Blue Mars. It talks about people moving to Mars and how they terraform it. And then they figure out how to extend life to 150, 200 years. So if that works out, then maybe there’s another lifetime to be lived on Mars.  Yeah. I definitely believe that we will end up living on other planets, for sure. I see that very clearly. It could be 50 years or more before we actually become a space-based civilization. But the Moon has already started, right? We’re going to be there in the next 5 to 10 years, trust me. So anyway, I’m very excited about that. Yes.  Yeah, it is very exciting. What I’m looking for on this podcast—what makes it kind of unique—is that I am a junkie for frameworks and mental models. We are almost 400 episodes in, and every episode has a different mental model that our guest comes up with or shares. So think about something that helped you build your business, or maybe helped you develop your products, or how you work with your engineers, or how you work with clients. So think about something that has three to five steps or three to five aspects that create a result.  That’s very clear to me. Those are the key things for any successful person. First of all, honestly, you have to be interested. You have to be in “go” mode. You cannot push somebody to start building something, like a building or actual construction, if their mind is not into it. The very first thing is, it’s got to be you. That’s number one, right? And you know it. Definitely organization is a very key factor for me. Being organized, being detail-oriented—that’s something that is super, super important. Planning and organization make a huge difference in whatever you do, right? And most importantly, integrity. I mean, that’s number one. That’s number one, number two, number three, number four—all of it.  So integrity is all of it. No matter what you do, if there’s no integrity, people will walk away from you. At the beginning, every business makes mistakes, and they learn and so on. So don’t beat yourself up. It’s okay. You make a mistake, you learn from it, and then you don’t do it again, right? Learn from it. So yeah, I would say those are at least three. If anything else comes to mind, I definitely will share it with you. But the most important things are integrity, organization, and clear planning based on knowledge. Not just planning for the hell of it, but planning based on understanding what you’re doing. That’s important. Integrity comes into your personality. It comes into the quality of the work you do.  It comes into the engineering you do. It comes into all of that, right? Even in engineering, it’s not only on the personal level that integrity has to be there. On the engineering level, integrity has to be there too. Whatever you do, you’ve got to make sure it’s working. One of the things we learned the hard way after 35 or 36 years is that it’s very important to have the knowledge base and to do things in a very organized way. And that’s kind of part of my personality. If I’m not confident about the end result, I don’t even commit to it. I’ve got to see it in my mind. Whatever problem comes up, if I don’t see the solution in my mind, I won’t even commit to it. It comes back to quality, integrity, and all of that. And I guess what I was going to say earlier is that everything that we do—as part of, again, the quality and integrity I mentioned—is that we have a lot of baby steps built into the process.  That’s what I wanted to say earlier. So for every step, the whole plan is split into, I don’t know, tens, hundreds, or thousands of different steps and branches. Because technology is not one thing. It’s usually a combination of different sciences. So mechanical engineering, electronics, material science, firmware, AI—those are all different types of expertise. And you’ve got to bring them all together. And for all of those baby steps, you’ve got to have some sort of test at the end of each step before you move on to the next one. Iteration.  Yeah. So, okay, what I’m hearing is integrity is number one. And then curiosity, perhaps. So curiosity is this driving force. Visualization is important. I’m thinking about Einstein, who said that imagination is more important than knowledge because imagination is infinite, while knowledge encircles the world. I think it was something like that. So visualization is important. Get organized. Do thorough planning. And learn from mistakes.  Yes. Absolutely. Okay.  That’s great. So what do you call this? Is this the Allen Nejah Framework, or what’s it called?  One more thing. One more thing. Again, that’s kind of under the umbrella of integrity. So I have two families. It’s one family. I have a family at home, and I have a family at work. And believe it or not—and you already know this—we all spend more time with our family at work than with our family at home. That’s true. It’s true for me. It’s true for a lot of people. You go to work, I don’t know, from 8:00, 9:00, or 10:00 in the morning until 5:00, 6:00, 7:00, 8:00, or 9:00 at night. That’s almost 12 hours. And by the time you go home at 5:00, 6:00, or 7:00, what? You spend two hours with your family, maybe three hours at most, and then it’s back to work. So the team is part of my family, and truly it is part of my family. Those are the first group of people, the first group of associates, that you have to take care of.  You have to be a brother to them, be a friend to them, be a father to them, be a mother to them. Seriously, it’s all about human interaction. It’s all about, “I like you, I don’t like you,” and it goes from there. “I feel good about you. I don’t feel good about you.” And so it’s very important to have those relationships in your business, or whatever it is you do. For me, all our people, all our employees—even from 35 years ago—are still in touch with us. I have kids who came through as junior-high interns, then high-school interns, then university students, even master’s degree students. Now they’re 40 years old. And we’re still in touch. So I’m in touch with hundreds of engineers and people that I’ve worked with over the past 35 years. And that’s a lot of value. That’s the biggest asset.  Yeah. Basically, they call it a school. You create a school, right? Your own professional school. That’s wonderful. So tell me about this special gear called InfiniGear. How is it special? How did you come up with it, and how is it being used? It’s an interesting question. First of all, let me explain to you very quickly what I-Gear is. So I-Gear is an AI robotic adaptive gearbox, or transmission, and that’s a mechanical transmission. It’s not an electronic transmission. It’s an actual mechanical gearbox that goes into any machinery or equipment. I mean, obviously, the one that everybody can relate to immediately is cars. Every car—not EV cars, but every car—has a transmission. A transmission usually is bigger than the engine. It’s heavier than the engine. It’s the guy that goes through all the center of the car, takes all that center, okay?  That’s it—a transmission. It’s big, it’s heavy. By the way, it’s amazing how it works. It’s absolutely amazing how it works if anybody gets into a transmission and sees all of it. There are about 300 to 400 gear sets in there. There are about six or seven clutches. There’s about 3,000 to 4,000 parts in a standard transmission. So that’s why it’s so big and so heavy. The efficiency is so low because all these gears have to be interacting with each other. As a matter of fact, believe it or not, the transmission efficiency is only 50%. So it’s actually as low as you can get. But you have to have a transmission in the car. If you have no transmission in the car—I’m talking about ICE cars with an engine—they’re not even able to drive because the engine has no initial power and no initial RPM.  The AI transmission, the robotic transmission that I have invented, and that we have developed over five to seven years— Since 2017 or ’18 we’ve been working on it. It’s a gearbox that has only two gears versus 200 to 300 gears, and it’s one-fourth or one-fifth of the size. And also, while your standard transmission has five or six or seven or eight gears in your car, this has unlimited gears, okay? And it’s AI, so it can see what’s going on with the road, what the weather is, and all combinations of conditions. If you’re going onto a hillside, it’s already going to shift for you, so it saves energy. So that’s what we have developed. It’s a robotic transmission.  Right now, we’re actually talking to the U.S. Army, and they have some interest. We are at a very initial stage with them. And it’s kind of difficult to bring it into the market because it’s a safety factor, and there are a lot of requirements and tests that have to go into it before we can actually get it into trucks and cars. To summarize the benefit, if you put that transmission into an EV, we can increase the range by 40%, which is huge. A company that can improve a battery by 1% gets millions of dollars thrown at it. Once we can prove that this is working and pass some tests and so on, it’s going to be very huge. Wow. When do you expect this to happen?  I’m hoping within the next two years. Hopefully, by the end of those two years, we make it home and get it into cars and trucks and commercialize it.  Then you will turn into a unicorn—a big unicorn, right?  Yeah. Again, EVs are only one application. There are wind turbines, tanks, boats, some aircraft, and helicopters. A helicopter’s transmission is half the size of the helicopter itself, so the weight and everything else become very significant. So if we can eliminate that weight and size, we can gain a lot. Especially in vehicles, it makes a huge difference and all that.  Wow. That’s probably something that drones would benefit from too. Yeah. It’s mind-boggling. So what drives growth in your business other than your inventions?  So at SunMan Engineering, we have two arms. One arm is that we provide engineering services, product architecture, and product development to other companies—small companies, mid-size companies, and bigger companies like IBM, Sony, Samsung, and Apple. We have about 300 or 400 of those clients. And we also work with government agencies and contractors like Lockheed Martin, Boeing, and Kaiser Electronics, just to name a few. We have also had contracts directly with the Army and the Navy in the past. And that’s what we’re trying to do now—to gain some of those projects again. And InfiniGear, the I-Gear, could be a project that, fingers crossed, we’d be working on with the U.S. Army. So that’s one arm of what we do. The other arm is that we develop new technologies. We develop them, work on them, and then license them, or let our clients utilize them in some of their projects through partnerships and so on.  So you’re a service company as well as a product company?  Yes. We are a systems and product company. We’re considered a systems and product company, yes.  Now, do you call this systems integration? In the IT world, they used to call it systems integration when you had different systems and—  We are more than systems integrators. Systems integrators buy different technologies and put them together. It’s still engineering, don’t get me wrong. Yeah. You still have to engineer everything and put it together. But what we do is actually customize things from the ground up. Sometimes we do integration because it’s faster, easier, and sometimes cheaper. Some of the components and some of the functionality can be integrated. But generally, we customize every project from the ground up. And generally, for your information, we cater to aerospace, robotics, and IoT. IoT is communication—all sorts of wireless and different types of communication: Wi-Fi, 5G, Bluetooth, all sorts of stuff, right? And also medical. So medical, robotics, aerospace, IoT, and also semiconductors, which also serve these different industries.  So how is it possible? I mean, you have a relatively small team, right? Fifteen people or so?  Twenty-seven, twenty-eight people.  Twenty-seven. Okay, sorry.  Yeah. With a small team.That’s exactly the very first question you asked me. That’s exactly how it affects and how it comes into the picture. Being organized—I mean, we’ve done this so many times. It’s like we make things so efficient because we already have a plan. Every project we do, in concept, is the same thing. The process is the same. The application is different, but the process is the same. So going through that process and having a very reliable process in place that we follow very religiously makes us super, super efficient. And also, being small, we don’t have to go through a number of different layers. Everything comes to one or two people, gets approved, and we get it going. Everything happens the same day. Nothing waits until the next day here.  Are you involved in every project?  Fortunately and unfortunately, I’m involved in every project. And one of my goals is to eventually focus on fewer projects so I’d be more effective and efficient. So that’s one of my goals for the next few years. I-Gear is one of them, and we’re also working on another project. It’s for healthcare, it’s for the elderly and infants. Eventually it’s going to be a robot, but right now we’re making the device that is the brain of the robot. So it gets to know the person, it gets to know their habits, it gets to know everything about the person, about their family, about their health, about how they behave. We can remind them of different things. We can assist them with different things. We can watch them. We can emotionally work with them. There are so many different applications that we’re working on now. We can even do preventive diagnostics.  What “preventive diagnostics” means is that before the patient or the person gets sick or develops some sort of disease, we can actually identify it before that happens. That’s great. And that’s the most important part of this device. It has so many different applications and different ways it can help and assist an elderly person. And within the next two or three years, my goal is to integrate this into a robot. So we’re going to have a robot that physically helps you as well. My mother ended up in one of those care centers, and I saw how much she was declining on a daily basis—not weekly, not monthly, but daily.  And there was nothing, unfortunately, that I or any member of our family could do. I mean, we were there every day, don’t get me wrong, but that’s all we could do for her. We’re all busy. We all have lives. I mean, we were there almost every day, but really, she did not get the care that she needed. And that’s what kind of put me in that frame of mind—how can I help someone like my mom? And that’s how it started about two years ago. And as a matter of fact, now it’s one of the biggest markets. Yeah. It’s one of the biggest. So that’s fascinating. So how can you have so mental bandwidth that you can cover different industries, go deep into different industries, and innovate and invent stuff? How does that even happen?  Honestly, I personally work pretty much 12 hours a day. Even on my vacations, I work. Don’t get me wrong, I have a very good life. I work hard and I play hard. I am a very active person. I played as a semi-professional soccer player until I was 58 years old, believe it or not. Actually, next week I’m going to be 65. I still can play. I still can go and compete with 25- and 30-year-old kids, and I still do good, I think. So I keep myself in very good shape. I do mountain biking. I do about 10 to 15 hours of heavy-duty exercise on a weekly basis, and that kind of balances what I’m doing. To answer your question, yes, it’s too much, but yeah, we have to spend more time. There is no magic to it. Sometimes it gets to be too much, but I like what I’m doing, so I enjoy it.  Yeah, it shows. Elon Musk is also an example of being able to run six big companies in different areas and be a groundbreaker. But you’re doing something very similar. You are breaking ground in different industries.  Yeah. Actually, as I mentioned, I have established different startups and sold them. I have worked on a number of different companies and technologies. As a matter of fact, back in 2005, I brought a whole bunch of different technologies to cars. Any type of car you drive—I don’t care what it is—almost everything in the dash belongs to technologies that we developed from 2005 to 2008. There are some videos and some information on my LinkedIn. I invite people, including yourself, to look into it. The stuff we did back then was in 2005. The iPhone only came out in 2007. We came out with these technologies between 2005 and 2008. Back then, we had Genie. Today they have Alexa and I don’t know what everybody else calls theirs.  Yeah. We had Genie. Genie would talk to you. I mean, I’m not just saying it. Please go watch the videos. We have them. So you would just talk to the car, and the car would do everything for you. We came up with a device that initially you could install as an aftermarket stereo in the car. Basically, it would connect all the sensors in the car to the outside world. This was the very first time. As a matter of fact, internet connectivity in the car is my technology. Every single car in the world since 2014 has been connected to the internet, and that’s my technology, my patent, and my license. Of course, I’m not getting much money from it. Unfortunately, I’ve kind of been robbed on that. But at least I can brag about it—that’s our technology. So yeah, we brought a whole bunch of technologies to market. My vision back then was to make the car robust enough to drive without a driver.  That’s happening now.  It’s happening now. As a matter of fact, we had a car that we put our system into, and we were demonstrating it. And again, there are hundreds of videos about that technology that you can find on the internet. As a matter of fact, we were on PBS for nine months in 27 countries talking about future cars, and that video is also out there. So that was in 2010. They had a half-hour program with my company and with me about future cars. And everything we said, we had the basis for it, and it happened.  So, Allen, if you had a magic wand and you could wish for anything to happen in your business, what would that be? So as I said earlier, I like to be more focused now. I’m very spread out with the business—not only with the technical side of things, but also with the business side of things. I really want to get away from the business side and just focus on the technology. That’s what I enjoy more. I do the business side because I have no choice. That’s part of the work, right? But I would like to get to the point where I can focus only on technology, and other people can worry about the other things. So that’s my goal.  Okay. So if someone is listening to this and they would like to be like you, what would you advise them? Let’s say they are 20 years old and they want to grow up and be an inventor, come up with solutions, work in different industries, and solve big problems. What’s the path? What would you tell them?  So first of all, don’t be like me, that’s for sure. Honestly, you’ve got to enjoy life more than I do. And I do enjoy life. Again, I have different hobbies. I do different sports. I ski, I bike, and those are my hobbies, right? Most importantly, again, we talked about this at the beginning. You’ve got to like what you do. And doing business is not easy. Don’t expect to get into it and have everything work out. Usually, by default, everything goes wrong. So that’s normal. It used to bother me. It used to make me upset, nervous, and all that. But over the last seven to ten years, I learned that things happen, and you just have to resolve them and go through them. Bad things can happen. Good things can happen. It’s all part of the mix. You’ve got to have a very strong personality. Generally, a good percentage of people go paycheck to paycheck, and it’s mental—it’s in their mind. They make a lot of money. They make $100,000 every paycheck. But if you get a paycheck, your mind is like, “Okay, my next paycheck is coming two weeks from now, then another one two weeks after that,” right? And if those two weeks come and you don’t get your paycheck, they go nuts. They go crazy. So if you’re like that, you cannot go into business. In business, it’s all about failure and success. If you’re lucky, that’s a different story. I can go buy a lottery ticket, and only one person out of millions wins. That’s luck. That’s different.  But then they lose it all. Lottery winners tend to lose it. Within a year, they’re broke.  Yeah, that’s a different story, of course. What I’m saying is that, yeah, some people get lucky. That’s the exception. Don’t compare yourself to that. Don’t go after that.  Don’t count on it.  Doing business is usually a challenge, no matter what. So you’ve got to have a very strong personality.  So yeah, resilience is everything. Well, that’s wonderful. So if someone would like to learn more about SunMan Engineering, or they want to connect with you, what should they do and where should they go? Yeah, the best thing is to please visit the website, which is sunmantechnology.com. There is a contact form there, and you can contact us. We’d be happy to get in touch with you and see how we can help.  Okay, fantastic. Well, Allen Nejah, the CEO and chief engineer of SunMan Engineering, and the inventor of many products in different industries, including InfiniGear, which is going to revolutionize transmissions. Thank you for coming on the show and sharing your insights and wisdom. And those of you who are listening, if you enjoyed this, make sure you subscribe and follow us because every week I bring on an amazing entrepreneur to talk with you. Thanks for coming, Allen, and thanks for listening. 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Join Broadway historian Laurence Maslon, host of the NPR radio series Broadway to Main Street, for a conversation about the Jewish composers and lyricists who helped create the modern American musical. In conversation with Joe Alterman, executive director of Neranenah.The documentary Great Performances – Broadway Musicals: A Jewish Legacy, narrated by Broadway legend Joel Grey is streaming on PBS.This program is part of The Pulse: Moments That Matter, a series of frank conversations on culturally relevant topics with musicians, comedians and other entertainment industry professionals to illuminate how being Jewish has shaped their experiences, both personally and professionally.

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This show is made possible thanks our members! To become a sustaining member go to https://LauraFlanders.org/donate   Thank you for your continued support! Description:  In a time of climate catastrophe, genocide, mass incarceration and political turmoil, people need to work together – better! That's why lifelong activist Dean Spade has written “Love in a F*ed Up World: How to Build Relationships, Hook Up, and Raise Hell, Together”. Which tools can help people and social justice movements face conflict and emerge stronger (rather than weaker)? Which stories do we tell ourselves that aren't helping us think — or act — in our best interest? In this timely conversation, Spade shares tips on how we might get our interpersonal houses in order so that we're better equipped to show up for others and the causes we care about. Spade is a lawyer, educator, and author of “Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity During This Crisis (and the Next)”, and “Normal Life: Administrative Violence, Critical Trans Politics and the Limits of the Law”. He's the director of “Pinkwashing Exposed: Seattle Fights Back!”, and in 2002 he founded the Sylvia Rivera Law Project in New York City, a law collective that provides free legal services to trans and gender non-conforming people who are low income and/or people of color. He has useful things to say about romance too, which are worth bearing in mind, as the Valentine's marketing crush hits, as Laura reflects in her commentary. “. . . Most of us are taking in all the bad news by ourselves through a screen . . . One of the best things we can do to support our own wellbeing through the overwhelm is be with others, joining any kind of project in our communities, a creative project, a mutual aid project . . .” - Dean Spade“The typical self-help genre is very focused on the individual. It doesn't contextualize the kinds of suffering that everyone's going through in a broader feminist analysis, anti-capitalist analysis, anti-racist analysis . . . If we understand that our individual suffering is a bunch of bigger scripts, . . . it can be a little bit freeing.” - Dean Spade   Guest:  Dean Spade, Author, “Love In A F*cked-Up World: How To Build Relationships, Hook Up, And Raise Hell Together”, “Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity During This Crisis (and the Next)” and more.   Watch the broadcast episode cut for time at our YouTube channel and airing on PBS stations across the country  Subscribe to episode notes via Patreon   Music In the Middle:  “We are Rising” by activist, singer and songwriter, Taína Asili.  She created the song for One Billion Rising's 2020 global campaign..  And additional music included- "Steppin"  and "All The Ways" by Podington Bear. RESOURCES: Recommended book: “Love In A F*cked-Up World: How To Build Relationships, Hook Up, And Raise Hell Together” by Dean Spade, *Learn more here (*Bookshop is an online bookstore with a mission to financially support local, independent bookstores. The LF Show is an affiliate of bookshop.org and will receive a small commission if you click through and make a purchase.) Related Laura Flanders Show Episodes: • The New Transgender Movement: Race, Poverty, Gender, Policing, and Pinkwashing, Watch ​​•  Emergent Strategies for Abolition: Andrea J. Ritchie's Toolkit for Activists: Watch / Download Podcast •  Mariame Kaba: Rooting Out Our Culture of Harm: Watch / Download Podcast: Episode & Full Uncut Conversation •  adrienne maree brown: Pleasure Activism and Black Women's Legacy of Joy, Watch (06:58) / Download Podcast:  Full Uncut Conversation (37:20)   Related Articles and Resources: •  Our Best Option for Defending Ourselves From Trump's Second Term Is Each Other, by Dean Spade, November 12, 2024, TruthOut • Checking in with Dean Spade (ep181), December 9, 2024, Gender Reveal Podcast •. “The Mask Is Off:”  Dean Spade and Susan Stryker on Trans Resistance in Trump's America, by Them, December 18, 2024, Them.us Laura Flanders and Friends Crew: Laura Flanders-Executive Producer, Writer; Sabrina Artel-Supervising Producer; Jeremiah Cothren-Senior Producer; Veronica Delgado-Video Editor, Janet Hernandez-Communications Director; Jeannie Hopper-Audio Director, Podcast & Radio Producer, Audio Editor, Sound Design, Narrator; Sarah Miller-Development Director, Nat Needham-Editor, Graphic Design emeritus; David Neuman-Senior Video Editor, and Rory O'Conner-Senior Consulting Producer. FOLLOW Laura Flanders and FriendsInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/lauraflandersandfriends/Blueky: https://bsky.app/profile/lfandfriends.bsky.socialFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/LauraFlandersAndFriends/Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@lauraflandersandfriendsYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFLRxVeYcB1H7DbuYZQG-lgLinkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/lauraflandersandfriendsPatreon: https://www.patreon.com/lauraflandersandfriendsACCESSIBILITY - The broadcast edition of this episode is available with closed captioned by clicking here for our YouTube Channel

Send us Fan MailSend us Fan MailIn this impactful episode of Living the Dream with Curveball, we are joined by Heidi Chance, a nationally recognized expert in sex trafficking and online safety. With over 28 years of law enforcement experience, Heidi has dedicated her career to protecting vulnerable communities and educating the public about the harsh realities of trafficking and exploitation. As a former special agent for the Arizona Attorney General's Office, she has been deeply involved in undercover operations and investigations that have shed light on this critical issue.Heidi shares her inspiring journey from a third-generation law enforcement officer to becoming a leading advocate for awareness and prevention of sex trafficking. She discusses the misconceptions surrounding trafficking, emphasizing that it is not just a distant problem but one that affects communities everywhere. Listeners will be captivated by her firsthand experiences in undercover work, where she has witnessed the alarming rise in the exploitation of young people, particularly through social media and online platforms.Throughout the episode, Heidi highlights the importance of parental involvement and community awareness in the fight against trafficking. She provides practical advice for recognizing warning signs of online grooming and exploitation, and shares insights from her book, *Talk to Them*, which aims to equip parents with the tools to have essential conversations with their children.Join us for a powerful discussion that not only raises awareness about the realities of sex trafficking but also inspires action to protect our communities and empower those who are most vulnerable.What You'll Learn in This Episode:- The truth behind common misconceptions about sex trafficking- Insights from Heidi's extensive undercover work and investigations- Warning signs of online grooming and exploitation for parents and caregivers- The significance of community awareness and involvement in prevention efforts- Information about Heidi's book and the PBS documentary *Sex Trafficking in America*For more information on Heidi Chance and her work, visit her website at www.achanceforawareness.com and follow her on social media for ongoing updates and resources.Support the show

Find us at www.crisisinvesting.com Find Tom at www.tomwoods.com In a wide-ranging discussion, Tom Woods joins Doug Casey and the host to assess current U.S. politics, culture, and economics. Woods reflects on Trump's 2024 win, the apparent retreat and performative nature of "wokery," and a broader sense that public life is "oddly fake," arguing that Trump squandered political capital and abandoned promising ideas like DOGE while ballooning spending, pursuing misguided trade and housing approaches, and attacking right-wing dissenters. They discuss generational divides in information and voting behavior, pessimism about fixing deficits and entitlements, and the likelihood that "reality" will force a fiscal reckoning through unmanageable interest costs or money printing. The conversation also touches on U.S.-Israel influence politics, concerns about deeper military integration, social media's role in mass conformity, the possibility of U.S. fragmentation, and Woods's commitment to keep speaking out and promoting his newsletter and history courses. 00:00 Welcome Tom Woods 00:33 Old Friends on PBS 01:10 Culture Wokery and Faith 04:15 Trump Momentum and Plan B 05:42 Economic Agenda Letdown 06:53 Housing Prices and Mortgages 09:48 Loyalty Tests and Vance 13:47 Israel NDAA and Intelligence 18:19 Censorship and Empire Decline 19:30 Pride Ads and Mass Psychosis 23:01 Social Media Amplifier 25:13 Will America Break Up 30:01 Keep Fighting Anyway 31:43 No Matter Who You Vote 33:03 Owning the McCain Line 34:04 Twitter Algorithms and Links 34:35 Debt Nobody Wants to Fix 39:49 Progress and Modern Comforts 43:00 Phones Amplify Human Nature 44:43 Boomers vs Gen Z Divide 48:19 Self Reliance for Young Men 51:23 Doug Casey Boomer Memories 55:54 Risks Hope and Do What You Can 58:28 Tom Woods Courses and Farewell

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Days of Rage: The Young Palestinians is a documentary film produced by Jo Franklin-Trout about Palestinian views on the Israeli occupation, first aired on PBS in 1989 "Days of Rage takes an inside look at the Palestinian intifada, which began in late 1987. Filmed in Jerusalem, the West Bank, and Gaza, this documentary reveals the horrors of Palestinians living under Israeli occupation. Aired on September 6, 1989, Days of Rage drew one of the largest viewing audiences in the history of PBS." Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AX16FuQg-ek

Send us Fan MailIn this episode, Jean-Marie Napolitano shares insights from her extensive career in Newport politics, candidly discussing the current state of local governance, community issues, and the importance of dialogue in a polarized era. Her experience offers a valuable lens on how local leadership can adapt to complex societal shifts.Key topics:The impact of national polarization on municipal politicsChallenges of effective communication among city council membersStrategies for addressing housing and affordability issuesLessons learned from school and community development projectsThe importance of volunteer-driven community effortsThe evolving landscape of Newport's neighborhoods and local identityTimestamps:00:00 - Newport politics update and Napolitano's retirement00:48 - Increasing polarization and its impact on local governance01:41 - The importance of direct communication among council members02:40 - Barriers to collaboration and consensus-building in local councils04:06 - The significance of pre-meeting negotiations and relationship management04:46 - Housing challenges in Newport and strategies for fair taxation05:12 - Addressing Airbnb's impact and efforts to regulate second homes06:55 - Incentivizing year-round residency through tax policies07:24 - The state of Newport's schools and regionalization efforts08:33 - Successes and ongoing challenges in school infrastructure projects10:07 - Recalling key community service initiatives and volunteer efforts11:57 - The importance of healthcare and social services in community care12:28 - The community's spirit and preserving Newport's unique character13:19 - Addressing homelessness and societal issues on Broadway14:44 - The role of volunteers in maintaining Newport's charm15:11 - Napolitano's reflections on her career and future engagement Support the showFollow Bill on Instagram and YouTube

Fertilizer helps grow the food that fills grocery store shelves, and concerns about competition in the fertilizer industry are now drawing attention from federal regulators. North Dakota farmer Adam Ladwig was part of a group asking questions about pricing, consolidation and transparency in one of agriculture's most important industries.

Kate discusses what to watch this week including Maternal Instinct (Netflix), Norway: The Dark Horse (Netflix), McBee Dynasty: Real American Cowboys (Bravo), Summer House Reunion (Bravo), and The Last Twins (PBS). Reality Life with Kate Casey What to Watch List: https://katecasey.substack.com The Story Behind My Podcast: https://katecasey.substack.com/p/i-was-the-narrator-of-my-own-family Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/katecasey Twitter: https://twitter.com/katecasey Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/katecaseyca Tik Tok: https://www.tiktok.com/@itskatecasey?lang=en Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/113157919338245 Amazon List: https://www.amazon.com/shop/katecasey Like it to Know It: https://www.shopltk.com/explore/katecaseySee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

This month on Laura Flanders and Friends, we're revisiting conversations around solidarity, kinship and what it means to be human.  This week Dean Spade shares tips for putting our interpersonal houses in order so that we're better equipped to show up for others and the causes we care about. This show is made possible thanks our members! To become a sustaining member go to https://LauraFlanders.org/donate   Thank you for your continued support! Description:  In a time of climate catastrophe, genocide, mass incarceration and political turmoil, people need to work together – better! That's why lifelong activist Dean Spade has written “Love in a F*ed Up World: How to Build Relationships, Hook Up, and Raise Hell, Together”. Which tools can help people and social justice movements face conflict and emerge stronger (rather than weaker)? Which stories do we tell ourselves that aren't helping us think — or act — in our best interest? In this timely conversation, Spade shares tips on how we might get our interpersonal houses in order so that we're better equipped to show up for others and the causes we care about. Spade is a lawyer, educator, and author of “Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity During This Crisis (and the Next)”, and “Normal Life: Administrative Violence, Critical Trans Politics and the Limits of the Law”. He's the director of “Pinkwashing Exposed: Seattle Fights Back!”, and in 2002 he founded the Sylvia Rivera Law Project in New York City, a law collective that provides free legal services to trans and gender non-conforming people who are low income and/or people of color. He has useful things to say about romance too, which are worth bearing in mind, as the Valentine's marketing crush hits, as Laura reflects in her commentary. “. . . Most of us are taking in all the bad news by ourselves through a screen . . . One of the best things we can do to support our own wellbeing through the overwhelm is be with others, joining any kind of project in our communities, a creative project, a mutual aid project . . .” - Dean Spade“The typical self-help genre is very focused on the individual. It doesn't contextualize the kinds of suffering that everyone's going through in a broader feminist analysis, anti-capitalist analysis, anti-racist analysis . . . If we understand that our individual suffering is a bunch of bigger scripts, . . . it can be a little bit freeing.” - Dean Spade   Guest:  Dean Spade, Author, “Love In A F*cked-Up World: How To Build Relationships, Hook Up, And Raise Hell Together”, “Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity During This Crisis (and the Next)” and more.   Watch the episode cut airing on PBS stations across the country at our YouTube channel Subscribe to episode notes via Patreon   Related Laura Flanders Show Episodes: • The New Transgender Movement: Race, Poverty, Gender, Policing, and Pinkwashing, Watch ​​•  Emergent Strategies for Abolition: Andrea J. Ritchie's Toolkit for Activists: Watch / Download Podcast •  Mariame Kaba: Rooting Out Our Culture of Harm: Watch / Download Podcast: Episode & Full Uncut Conversation •  adrienne maree brown: Pleasure Activism and Black Women's Legacy of Joy, Watch (06:58) / Download Podcast:  Full Uncut Conversation (37:20) Related Articles and Resources: •  Our Best Option for Defending Ourselves From Trump's Second Term Is Each Other, by Dean Spade, November 12, 2024, TruthOut • Checking in with Dean Spade (ep181), December 9, 2024, Gender Reveal Podcast •. “The Mask Is Off:”  Dean Spade and Susan Stryker on Trans Resistance in Trump's America, by Them, December 18, 2024, Them.us Laura Flanders and Friends Crew: Laura Flanders-Executive Producer, Writer; Sabrina Artel-Supervising Producer; Jeremiah Cothren-Senior Producer; Veronica Delgado-Video Editor, Janet Hernandez-Communications Director; Jeannie Hopper-Audio Director, Podcast & Radio Producer, Audio Editor, Sound Design, Narrator; Sarah Miller-Development Director, Nat Needham-Editor, Graphic Design emeritus; David Neuman-Senior Video Editor, and Rory O'Conner-Senior Consulting Producer. FOLLOW Laura Flanders and FriendsInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/lauraflandersandfriends/Blueky: https://bsky.app/profile/lfandfriends.bsky.socialFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/LauraFlandersAndFriends/Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@lauraflandersandfriendsYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFLRxVeYcB1H7DbuYZQG-lgLinkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/lauraflandersandfriendsPatreon: https://www.patreon.com/lauraflandersandfriendsACCESSIBILITY - The broadcast edition of this episode is available with closed captioned by clicking here for our YouTube Channel

As one of 11 remaining Pearl Harbor Survivors, Earl "Chuck" Kohler was honored at the PBS Annual Memorial Day event held on May 24th, 2026. On Dec 7th, 1941, Chuck was working at the PBY Flying Boat base on Pearl Harbor where he was one of the few who were able to fight back against the Japanese raiders. He would continue fighting the Japanese in the Pacific Theatre supporting the deadly "Black Cats" PBY squadrons that decimated Japanese shipping and warships.Listen in as Chuck tells us about his recollection of events that very few still alive today are able to do! Support the show

If you dread parties, can't face job interviews, or won't start scary conversations with your partner, this is the episode for you.  Dr Wendy Suzuki is a neuroscientist and an international expert on anxiety and the brain. Her new book, Good Anxiety, unpacks the science of everyday anxiety in a way that helps us manage it. In this episode, Andrew and Wendy discuss:  ⚡️What “good anxiety” is, and how to channel it in the right direction. ⚡️How anxiety can lead to productivity and creativity. ⚡️Meditation, tea-drinking, and the jujitsu move that turns anxiety around. Dr. Wendy Suzuki is a Professor of Neural Science and Psychology in the Center for Neural Science at New York University and a celebrated international authority on neuroplasticity. She was recently named one of the 10 women changing the way we see the world by Good Housekeeping. Her TED talk has more than 31 million views on Facebook, and her  first book Healthy Brain Happy Life was recently made into a PBS special.     If You're Looking for More…. You can subscribe to The Meaningful Life (via Apple Podcasts, Spotify or Google Podcasts) and hear a bonus mini-episode every week. Or you can join our Supporters Club on Patreon to also access exclusive behind-the-scenes content, fan requests  and the chance to ask Andrew your own questions. Membership starts at just £4.50.  This week supporters will hear: ⭐️Three things Dr. Wendy Suzuki knows to be true. ⭐️AND subscribers also access all of our previous bonus content - a rich trove of insight on love, life and meaning created by Andrew and his interviewees.   Follow Up Attend Andrew's mens's retreat near Berlin in June 2026: details here Get Andrew's free guide to difficult conversations with your partner: How to Tell Your Partner Difficult Things  Take a look at Andrew's new online relationship course: My Best Relationship Tools   Read Andrew's new Substack newsletter The Meaningful Life, and join the community there.  Read Dr Wendy Suzuki's book Good Anxiety: Harnessing the Power of the Most Misunderstood Emotion Visit Dr Wendy Suzuki's website Connect with Dr Wendy Suzuki on social media: find her on Instagram @wendy.suzuki, on Twitter @wasuzuki and on Facebook @WendyASuzuki Read Andrew's blog on how keeping a journal can improve your life: Top Twelve Benefits of Journaling  If anxiety is a topic of interest for you, you may also enjoy Andrew's conversation with Richard Paterson: No More Overthinking  Join our Supporters Club to access exclusive behind-the-scenes content, fan requests and the chance to ask Andrew your own questions. Membership starts at just £4.50. Andrew offers regular advice on love, marriage and finding meaning in your life via his social channels. Follow him on Twitter, Facebook and YouTube @andrewgmarshall 

This final instalment of Sass lays a strong foundation for our return to developing statically generated websites with Jekyll. We learn how to deeply customise and integrate Bootstrap into our own styles. As is often the case, Bart starts by describing the different techniques that can be used to customise Bootstrap with Sass, and then ties it all together with a worked example. We now have the tools to use Bootstrap, even if our website uses a content management system like WordPress. You can find Bart's fabulous tutorial shownotes and the audio podcast at pbs.bartificer.net. Read an unedited, auto-generated transcript with chapter marks: PBS_2026_06_06 Join our Slack at podfeet.com/slack and look for the #pbs channel, and check out our pbs-student GitHub Organization. It's by invitation only but all you have to do is ask Allison! Join the Conversation: allison@podfeet.com podfeet.com/slack Support the Show: Patreon Donation Apple Pay or Credit Card one-time donation PayPal one-time donation Podfeet Podcasts Mugs at Zazzle NosillaCast 20th Anniversary Shirts Referral Links: Setapp - 1 month free for you and me 15% off Carbon Copy Cloner Wispr Flow - 1 month free for you PETLIBRO - 30% off for you and me Parallels Toolbox - 3 months free for you and me Learn through MacSparky Field Guides - 15% off for you and me Backblaze - One free month for me and you Eufy - $40 for me if you spend $200. Sadly nothing in it for you. PIA VPN - One month added to Paid Accounts for both of us CleanShot X - Earns me $25%, sorry nothing in it for you but my gratitude

Ped & Burk bring you a memory filled episode. We kick things off by doing even worse in the 3-2-1 game, then Adam quizzes Burk on the top 5 American pizza chains. Number 5 might surprise you! The boys reminisce on pool days and swimming lessons before Burk brings us this week's perfect song. In the meat, Mm!, of the episode we do a draft of PBS shows! The fellas grew up without cable but who needs it with the lineup that PBS provided! We close the show by igniting our sense of smell from the 90s. Love y'all. Hut Hut!

The boys are back in the studio and ready to sling some more BS on Episode 234 of The Sleazy Podcast!To kick things off, Sleazy, Mr. PBS, and Robzilla catch up on everything that's been going on over the last couple of weeks before diving into the latest horror buzz. Mr. PBS and Sleazy share their spoiler-free thoughts on Obsession, the new horror hit from director Curry Barker. Does it live up to the hype? Tune in to find out.Next up, it's time for another installment of Zilla's Tubi Pick of the Week! What hidden gem will Robzilla pull from the seemingly endless depths of Tubi this time?To close out the show, the gang returns to the fan-favorite segment "Whatchu Watchin'" and breaks down all the movies and TV they've been checking out, including The Burroughs, The Audacity, a stack of classic Jackie Chan films, For All Mankind, Shrinking, The Crash, and Scream 7.Grab a cold one, kick back, and Keep It Sleazy!

In this week's episode, we're bringing you two stories about navigating the uncertainty, hope, and heartbreak of trying to have a baby.Part 1: After a pregnancy loss, Annie Tan channels her grief into rescuing an injured mockingbird.Part 2: Kibby McMahon is convinced she can will her way into pregnancy, but her body refuses to follow the plan.Annie Tan is an educator, activist, writer and storyteller from Manhattan's Chinatown. Annie's work has been featured in Huffington Post, New Republic, PBS' Asian Americans, RISK! and twice on The Moth Radio Hour on NPR. Annie is writing a memoir about connecting with her immigrant parents despite not sharing a common fluent language. Find more at annietan.com.Dr. Kibby McMahon is a licensed clinical psychologist, researcher, and digital health entrepreneur who's obsessed with the emotional complexities of relationships. She earned her BA from Columbia University and her PhD in clinical psychology from Duke University, where her NIMH-funded research focused on how regulating our own emotions helps us connect more deeply with others. She has held research and clinical roles at Duke University Medical Center, Columbia University, Weill Cornell Hospital, and the Max Planck Institute. Dr. Kibby is a family caregiver and breast cancer survivor- experiences that reshaped how she understands vulnerability, resilience, and what it means to care for others while holding yourself together. These threads came together when she co-founded KulaMind, a digital mental health company that supports loved ones of people with mental illness through evidence-based skills, coaching, and AI-powered tools. She also hosts the podcast "A Little Help for Our Friends," which explores the invisible emotional labor of loving someone who is struggling with mental health or addiction. She lives in New York with her tornado of a son, a fluff of a dog, and a partner-in-crime husband.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Alison and Amanda talk about a Turkish tile treasure hunt, building a better bathing suit, and the nostalgia of navigating with no technology.  Sis & Tell, an award-winning weekly comedic podcast, is hosted by southern Jewish sisters the Emmy-nominated Alison Goldstein Lebovitz from PBS' The A List and Time Magazine's 2006 Person of the Year, Comedian Amanda Goldstein Marks.

Hey friends! Backups are not as cool as pentesting, but boy do they matter when things go sideways. This week I'm sharing how a Proxmox backup disk space meltdown led me to a completely overhauled — and honestly pretty bulletproof — backup setup for both home and work. Claude played a big role in helping me sort it all out. Here's what we get into: The backup history tour — I've been through CrashPlan, Dropbox, Backblaze (which saved my bacon after my house fire in 2019!), and a mystery one that may or may not have had "Panda" in the name. These days I'm settled on ARQ for personal backups — dead simple, backs up to just about everything (Dropbox, OneDrive, Google Drive, even their own ARQ Cloud for ~$80/year), and all data is encrypted at rest. Not a sponsor, but they should be. The 3-2-1 rule — I actually asked Siri mid-episode, and she initially thought it was a grounding/anxiety technique. (Valid, I guess?) The real answer: three copies, two different media, one offline. I've got a local copy plus OneDrive, Google Drive, and Dropbox — so I think I'm covered. The work side: Proxmox + PBS — My "data center" is a beefy Hetzner Proxmox box with about a dozen VMs. I had Proxmox Backup Server (PBS) set up on a secondary Hetzner box, happily cranking away… until it ran out of disk space and started yelling at me every night. Claude to the rescue — I spun up a Claude project, fed it terminal output and retention configs, and it gave me a straight-up honest assessment: either gut your retention policy (risky) or get more disk. It then walked me through Hetzner's auctions page — which I didn't even know existed — to find a storage-heavy, low-horsepower box. Ended up with two mirrored 8TB drives plus a 14TB drive for around $40/month. Not cheap, but totally worth it as a business expense. The new setup — PBS is now on its own dedicated Hetzner box. VMs from both my data center and my home NUC Proxmox box back up there nightly. Claude also suggested using that 14TB drive as an SFTP target for ARQ, giving me yet another redundant copy of all my personal data. It'll take a few weeks to fully sync, but I'm running some flavor of the 4-3-2-1 rule now (I made that up). Proxmox forever — Someone wrote in asking if I'd go back to ESXi now that Broadcom brought back the free version. Hard no. I've fallen in love with Proxmox and I'm not going back. 7MinSec wiki scripts repo — Head over to 7MinSec.wiki and click the Scripts button to find a new GitHub repo where I'm publishing pentesting scripts. First one up: a push-button Exegol installer. More to come — and I'll probably tease new scripts first over at 7MinSec.club on TuesdayTOOLSday! Have a backup horror story — or a setup you're proud of? Hit us up! And if you need assessments, pentesting, training, or other security goodness, find us at 7MinSec.com.

Alyssa and Erin get into the results from Tuesday's primary, round up Trump's latest slew of flops, and discuss why we are tired of men with checkered pasts running for office like nobody's gonna find out. Then Alyssa sits down with actress Sepideh Moafi about her role in The Pitt, her childhood as an Iranian refugee, and her latest role in the play New Born. They wrap up with a petty conversation about the best frozen summer treats, and Costco finds.For a closed-captioned version of this episode, click here. For a transcript of this episode, please email transcripts@crooked.com and include the name of the podcast, episode title, and episode date.California Primary Election Results (NYT 6/3)Trump's UFC arena towers over the White House as new photo shows scope of event (Independent 6/1)Standoff between Republicans and White House over the 'anti-weaponization' fund remains unresolved (PBS 6/1)

Scott Cameron is a two-time Emmy Award-winning creative leader who has spent his career executive producing international adaptations of Sesame Street, bringing this iconic brand to audiences in 190 countries and 31 languages. He joins us for this special episode to talk about what 57 years of research-driven storytelling has taught him about how story actually changes people.

Today on The Gist, we analyze the Maine U.S. Senate race as Democrat Graham Plattner navigates a growing scandal while facing incumbent Susan Collins in a contest that tests party loyalties. Then, UC Davis law professor Aaron Tang discusses his PBS series, Breaking the Deadlock. Tang explains how his program uses high-stakes, fictionalized scenarios to force experts beyond their rehearsed talking points and toward genuine, civil discourse. Produced by Corey Wara Video and Social Media by Geoff Craig Do you have questions or comments, or just want to say hello? Email us at ⁠⁠⁠⁠thegist@mikepesca.com For full Pesca content and updates, check out our website at https://www.mikepesca.com/⁠ For ad-free content or to become a Pesca Plus subscriber, check out ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://subscribe.mikepesca.com/ For Mike's daily takes on Substack, subscribe to The Gist List https://mikepesca.substack.com/ Follow us on Social Media:⁠⁠⁠⁠ YouTube https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4_bh0wHgk2YfpKf4rg40_g⁠⁠⁠⁠ Instagram https://www.instagram.com/pescagist/ X https://x.com/pescami TikTok https://www.tiktok.com/@pescagist To advertise on the show, contact ⁠⁠⁠⁠sales@amplitudemediapartners.com Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.