Podcasts about Professor Hamilton

On today's PerformHappy Podcast episode, I'm thrilled to welcome Professor Jaime Hamilton, a communication expert and fierce advocate for bullying awareness. Jaime founded The Comm Experts to bridge the gap between higher education and real-world contexts, focusing on bullying prevention and awareness. With over 20 years of teaching experience, she is passionate about enhancing communication in all areas of life.Bullying in youth sports is a challenge many face, whether from peers, coaches, or parents. Professor Hamilton provides practical strategies to combat bullying, from creating a bully-free training environment to addressing situations where your own child might be the bully.Please note, that this episode discusses sensitive topics like abuse and suicide. Take care while listening.In this episode, Coach Rebecca and Jaime Hamilton talk about:Emotional Abuse in Gymnastics and its Impact on Young Athletes.Bullying Awareness and Communication Strategies for Kids.Using Words to Reduce Bullying Power Dynamics. How to Respond to Bullying from Authority Figures.How Parents can Approach Coaches to Address Concerns about their Child's Sports Performance.Setting Boundaries and Promoting Positivity in Gymnastics Teams. How to Address Bullying Behavior in Children. "Never walk away from a bully.” - Jaime Hamilton.Jaime Hamilton's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/the_communication_expert/Jaime Hamilton's Website: https://www.thecommexperts.com/Jaime Hamilton's TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@the.communication.expertConfident Gymnast Camp AUG 3rd-4th 2024 BREAK THROUGH FEAR & MENTAL BLOCKS Expert mental coaches decode fears in real-timeParent Session reinforces roles & solutionsExpert gymnastics coaches customize drills & break down skillsMax 5:1 ratioRedwood Empire Gymnastics, Petaluma, CAwww.confidentgymnast.com Struggling with fears, mental blocks, or confidence? Click the link to get a FREE session with one of our experts to tackle your challenges together! completeperformance.as.me/consultLearn exactly what to say and do to guide your athlete through a mental block with my new book "Parenting Through Mental Blocks" Order your copy today: https://a.co/d/g990BurFollow me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/complete_performance/ Join my FaceBook page: https://www.facebook.com/completeperformancecoaching/ Check out my website: https://completeperformancecoaching.com/Write to me! Email: rebecca@completeperformancecoaching.comReady to help your athlete overcome fears and mental blocks while gaining unstoppable confidence? Discover the transformative power of PerformHappy now. If your athlete is struggling or feeling left behind, it's time for a change. Are you ready? For more info and to sign up: PerformHappy.com

Welcome to the two hundredth and sixty-sixth episode of From Crisis to Crisis: A Superman Podcast!  This podcast has a simple premise; examine just about every Superman comic published between Man of Steel #1 in 1986 to Adventures of Superman #649 in 2006 in an informative and hopefully entertaining format. Final Night concludes! And the Sun Eater causes the sun to go nova, and everyone dies. End of show. Just kidding! The road to the end of Final Night begins with Mike and Jeff looking at Superman: The Man of Steel #62, which not only focuses on Superman helping the brave workers at the Metropolis power station get said station back on line after the roof collapses but also shows Professor Hamilton viewing the holograms of Jor-El trying to save the population of Krypton during the planet's final days. There's also a sub-plot of Perry and his family heading to the Daily Planet and putting out the next edition despite the power being out and the world potentially coming to an end. Then the boys look at Flash #119, Hitman #8, and Legion of Super-Heroes #86, because those issues seem to take place before the final issue of the main series. Then the rubber meets the road in Final Night #4, where Superman makes the decision to fly the ship that's going to take the thingy to stop the Sun Eater. He doesn't get the chance when Ferro Lad kind of, sort of steals the ship but even his attempts at self-sacrifice fall through when Hal Jordan decides that he is going to be the one to save the day. Finally, the boys chat about the final three crossover issues, which come in the form of Robin #35, Takion #6, and Spectre #47. Shows Promoted in This Episode Superman Radio Revisited – Hosted by Matthew T Cody Superman in Crisis – Hosted by Jon Wilson The From Crisis to Crisis theme is by Lucian Desar. “Hero Down” by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ You can subscribe or listen to the show in a variety of ways. First there is the RSS Feed and then there is the Apple Podcasts link.  You can also find the show on Spotify and the Google Play Store.  Are you on Facebook? Be sure to “like” the official FCTC page, which you can find by clicking on this link.  You can email the show by clicking this link. All questions, concerns, fears, trepidations and cheap shots are welcome.  Also be sure to give us a review over on iTunes and feel free to comment on the show here at the site! Next Time: A very special episode! Finally...The Mike Carlin interview!

Welcome to the two hundredth and sixty-third episode of From Crisis to Crisis: A Superman Podcast!  This podcast has a simple premise; examine just about every Superman comic published between Man of Steel #1 in 1986 to Adventures of Superman #649 in 2006 in an informative and hopefully entertaining format. Final Night begins! This time out Mike and Jeff kick off their coverage of Final Night by starting with an issue that bears the Final Night trade dress but has very little to do with the event. Superman #116 features Superman and Professor Hamilton heading to the Fortress to deal with the rapidly failing bottled city but trouble strikes when the Fortress defenses fail to recognize Superman as Kryptonian. Meanwhile, Lori Lemaris is confronted by WGBS and deals with it by jumping off the pier. Oh, and at the end Hamilton and Superman notice that Final Night has started. Then the boys cover the Final Night preview (which was originally a black and white freebie given out at comic shops) before diving into Final Night #1. An alien known as Dusk lands on Earth and is met by Superman, the SCU, and the time lost Legion of Super-Heroes. She warns them that a cosmic entity known as the Sun Eater will soon arrive in their solar system to…well, eat the sun…it's right there in the name…and just like that it arrives. The heroes band together to try and stop it but their efforts fail, causing the Sun Eater to latch on to the sun and temperatures on Earth to plummet. As the sky turns dark, Lex Luthor believes it is time to return to Metropolis. After that, Mike and Jeff briefly discuss Power of Shazam #20, Green Lantern #80, and Sovereign Seven #16. Shows Promoted In This Episode The Superman Super Show – Hosted by Steven and Ed Superman Radio Revisted – Hosted by Mattew Cody The From Crisis to Crisis theme is by Lucian Desar. “Hero Down” Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Superman The Man Of Steel #35 has Superman fighting a big robot! Also, Wonder Woman is there for some reason! Oh, and Static from Milestone Comics! Superman #91 has Superman fighting more robots! The Adventures Of Superman #514 sees Lex release a fear toxin! What is Professor Hamilton's greatest fear? Superman In Action Comics #701 Superman fights a giant robot! It's his Kryptonian War Battle Suit being controlled by Lex Luthor! Check out comics by Denis:⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠https://www.deniscomix.com/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

Alison, Liz, and Rebecca are joined by Professor Marci Hamilton, legal icon and leading expert on the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA) and extreme religious liberty. Professor Hamilton explains the origin story of RFRA, how it has led us to the emerging theocracy we face, and what Americans can do to reclaim true religious liberty before it's too late.  Submit a question for the holiday mailbag episode here!   Background Professor Marci Hamilton's bio CHILD USA, Prof. Hamilton's think tank FFRF's FAQ on RFRA  Congressional Research Service primer on RFRA   Cases City of Boerne v. Flores (1997) Employment Division v. Smith (1990) Tanzin v. Tanvir (2020)  FFRF's amicus brief, written by Marci Hamilton American Atheists and Center For Inquiry's amicus brief 303 Creative LLC v. Elenis (2023) U.S. Pastor Council (Braidwood Management) v. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (2023) Hosanna-Tabor Evangelical Lutheran Church and School v. EEOC (2012)     Check us out on Instagram, Facebook and Twitter. Our website, we-dissent.org, has more information as well as episode transcripts.

Part 2 of Blasts from the Pasts where we get a Superman 2-esque episode with Professor Hamilton names the Fortress of Solitude.

On this week's episode, we are joined by Professor Jaime Hamilton, a renowned communication expert and professor. With her extensive knowledge and experience, Professor Hamilton uses her social media platform to educate people on effective communication techniques. Today, she brings her expertise to our discussion on workplace bullying.Professor Hamilton shares valuable insights, drawing from her own research and experiences. She emphasizes the importance of assertive communication, setting boundaries, and cultivating resilience. With her guidance, we explore various scenarios of workplace bullying, from subtle microaggressions to overt acts of harassment. Tune in to gain a deeper understanding of workplace bullying, learn powerful techniques to assert yourself, and discover strategies to create a positive work environment. Whether you're currently dealing with workplace bullying or simply want to be better equipped to support others, this episode offers invaluable wisdom and empowerment.[Trigger Warning]:Please be advised that this episode includes a discussion about workplace bullying, which may include sensitive topics such as mental health and suicide. While we aim to handle these subjects with care and provide supportive information, we understand that they can be distressing for some. If you find these topics triggering or feel emotionally overwhelmed, we encourage you to prioritize your well-being and consider skipping this episode or having a support system in place. If you or someone you know is struggling with suicidal thoughts, please reach out to a mental health professional or a hotline (988). You are not alone, and there is help available.More About Jaime: Communication is the magic with which all relationships are created and destroyed. Professor Hamilton's passion is to teach people how to communicate in ways that enhance the areas of life that matter the most.  Because all human behavior has communicative value, we can conclude that communication is a fundamental skill that is widely underestimated.  It is in every fiber of our humanity.  Without it, we would not exist.  Jaime has garnered an academic platform of excellence while teaching in Higher Education for over 20 years.  “I thrive on teaching communication skills that people can apply in real-world contexts.”  It is her dream to connect the world of academia with everyday human behavior so that we can understand the world around us in more meaningful ways.  Her teaching techniques combined with her real-life experiences allow her to shine a light on new and innovative ways to communicate.   She believes that relationships are the core of our human nature. “I want to share what I know so that we can cultivate relationships that help us achieve our full potential.” She founded The Comm Experts, a communication consulting and coaching company, with the hope of teaching effective communication skills beyond the walls of Higher Education.  Her education includes a B.S. and M.A. in Communication Studies from the University of Central Missouri.  Her education foundation is rooted in Rhetorical Theory and Applied Communication.  Connect with Jaime!Email: thecommexperts@gmail.comYouTube: @thecommunicationexpert1216Instagram: @the_communication_expertTikTok: @the_communication_expertConnect with Brianna!Instagram: @mombossinaustinLinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/briannademike

In this month on Repast, Michael and Diana talk with Neil Hamilton, Professor Emeritus and Former Director of the Agricultural Law Center at Drake University.  Professor Hamilton has been a professor at Drake since 1983.  Among other things, he is a Member of the Board of Directors for the Iowa National Heritage Foundation and a past president of the American Agricultural Law Association.  He was the Chair of the Iowa Food Policy Council (2000-2007), the Chair of the Agriculture Law Section of the Association of American Law Schools, and the Vice chair of the USDA Small Farms Advisory Committee (1997-2000).  Hamilton is the author of numerous articles and books, including The Land Remains—A Midwestern Perspective on Our Past and Future, which he discusses here. Neil Hamilton is Professor Emeritus at Drake University Law School. Michael T. Roberts is the Executive Director of the Resnick Center for Food Law & Policy at UCLA Law.Diana Winters is the Deputy Director of the Resnick Center for Food Law & Policy at UCLA Law. You can buy The Land Remains—A Midwestern Perspective on Our Past and Future here.

Ambassador Curtis Ward and Professor Rosalea Hamilton discuss a number of issues including: CARICOM disunity, Caribbean democracy and the importance of participatory democracy vis-à-vis citizen apathy, government accountability, political leadership, and more.Professor Hamilton is the Founding Director, Institute of Law & Economics, a former Vice President of the University of Technology (Jamaica) and was awarded a Chair in Entrepreneurship and Development. Over the past 20 years, Professor Hamilton has given voice to the voiceless through her advocacy to support MSMEs, to eliminate gender-based violence, to protect human rights, and to improve participatory democracy. She is currently Coordinator of the Jamaica-based Advocates Network.Real Talk with Ambassador Curtis Ward is produced by Larry Sindass / Sindass Productions.

Join my conversation with Marci Hamilton, professor, U.S. Supreme Court Clerk to Justice Sandra Day O'Connor and founder of Child USA as we discuss: Professor Hamilton's insider perspective on the U.S. Supreme Court; why we need the voice of Judge Brown Jackson on the Supreme Court; and how Child USA is disrupting and changing laws to allow sexual abuse survivors access to the court system. Support and learn more about Child USA. Learn more about Judie Saunders, Esq., and how she works with companies; conducting internal investigations that address toxic work cultures so that businesses can restore productivity, employee trust and transparency. This podcast is for informational purposes only.  Nothing in this podcast is legal advice, counsel or guidance. No offer, statement or representation has been made to serve as your attorney in any capacity.   No attorney-client relationship has been created. This information is general and may not be applicable to your particular circumstances. You must review your particular circumstances with a licensed attorney. 

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Professor Hamilton delivers the first Cardiology lecture.

Welcome back to America's leading higher education law podcast, EdUp Legal - part of the EdUp Experience Podcast Network! In this episode, your guest is Neil Hamilton, Holloran Professor of Law and Co-director of the Holloran Center for Ethical Leadership in the Professions at St. Thomas School of Law. You will learn from Professor Hamilton about the need for law schools to help law students form professional identities, and a blueprint for law school faculty and staff to incorporate that professional development and formation throughout the curriculum. Professor Hamilton describes the key transitions during which students benefit from reflection and coaching, and calls for expanded competency-based education in law schools, much like that already utilized in the health professions. Thank you so much for tuning in. Join us on the next episode for your EdUp time! Connect with your host - Patty Roberts ● If you want to get involved, leave us a comment or rate us! ● Join the EdUp community at The EdUp Experience! ● Follow EdUp on Facebook | Instagram | LinkedIn | Twitter | YouTube Thanks for listening!

Welcome back to America's leading higher education law podcast, EdUp Legal - part of the EdUp Experience Podcast Network! In this episode, your guest is Neil Hamilton, Holloran Professor of Law and Co-director of the Holloran Center for Ethical Leadership in the Professions at St. Thomas School of Law. You will learn from Professor Hamilton about the need for law schools to help law students form professional identities, and a blueprint for law school faculty and staff to incorporate that professional development and formation throughout the curriculum. Professor Hamilton describes the key transitions during which students benefit from reflection and coaching, and calls for expanded competency-based education in law schools, much like that already utilized in the health professions. Thank you so much for tuning in. Join us on the next episode for your EdUp time! Connect with your host - Patty Roberts ● If you want to get involved, leave us a comment or rate us! ● Join the EdUp community at The EdUp Experience! ● Follow EdUp on Facebook | Instagram | LinkedIn | Twitter | YouTube Thanks for listening!

In a discussion that echoes the age-old chicken vs. egg conversation sentiment, we engaged in a debate. After meeting a fellow Customer Experience proponent on a new social media platform called Clubhouse, we invited author and speaker Stacy Sherman to debate. The topic: Is Customer Experience the new marketing, or is it an entity on its own? Sherman and I have a difference of opinion. Sherman, a director of Customer Experience and employee engagement at a global organization by day and the founder of DoingCXRight.com by night, says that Customer Experience is the new marketing, replacing and usurping it. I don't see it this way, and I see it as an entity/team separate from but working closely with marketing.  In this episode, we each make our case for our view. We also define what Customer Experience and Marketing are and the relationships that we see between them. In the end, we settle on an answer that should help organizations make the most of both teams.  Key Ideas to Improve your Customer Experience We have set up this episode as a court with Professor Hamilton presiding as the judge and jury to offer his unbiased decision. For our part, Sherman and I know that both the marketing and Customer Experience teams contribute a lot to the bottom line. We also understand that the two departments have many shared goals and metrics that measure their success. However, is one of them swallowing the other or do they both present value to the overall goal in equal parts? You'll have to listen to know for sure. Here are a few key moments in the discussion: 03:44 I define the topic of the debate based on a sentiment I have been hearing that CX is replacing marketing.  08:41 Sherman and I offer our Customer Experience and Marketing definitions, which set the foundation for further discussion of our positions. 15:48  I explain why marketing has a different and equally important role as Customer Experience in defining what the experience should be. 18:25  Sherman explains that the blend of skills and real-world application of experiences that makes Customer Experience the new marketing. 22:15  Ryan asks us why this discussion matters to organizations trying to deliver an experience that promotes customer-driven growth.  26:38 Ryan gives his decision and summarizes the issue for us all.  Please tell us how we are doing! Complete this short survey.  Customer Experience Information & Resources LinkedIn recognizes Colin Shaw as one of the 'World's Top 150 Business Influencers.' As a result, he has 289,000 followers of his work. Shaw is Founder and CEO of Beyond Philosophy LLC, which helps organizations unlock growth by discovering customers' hidden, unmet needs that drive value ($). The Financial Times selected Beyond Philosophy LLC as one of the best management consultancies for the last two years. Follow Colin on LinkedIn and Twitter. Click here to learn more about Professor Ryan Hamilton of Emory University.  Why Customers Buy: As an official "Influencer" on LinkedIn, Colin writes a regular newsletter on all things Customer Experience. Click here to join the other 22,000 subscribers.  Experience Health Check: You already have an experience, even if you weren't deliberate about it. Our Experience Health Check can help you understand what you have today. Colin or one of our team can assess your digital or physical Customer Experience, interacting with your organization as a customer to define what is good and what needs improving. Then, they will provide a list of recommendations for critical next steps for your organization. Click here to learn more.  How can we help? Click here to learn more about Beyond Philosophy's Suite of Services.

In a discussion that echoes the age-old chicken vs. egg conversation sentiment, we engaged in a debate. After meeting a fellow Customer Experience proponent on a new social media platform called Clubhouse, we invited author and speaker Stacy Sherman to debate. The topic: Is Customer Experience the new marketing, or is it an entity on its own? Sherman and I have a difference of opinion. Sherman, a director of Customer Experience and employee engagement at a global organization by day and the founder of DoingCXRight.com by night, says that Customer Experience is the new marketing, replacing and usurping it. I don't see it this way, and I see it as an entity/team separate from but working closely with marketing.  In this episode, we each make our case for our view. We also define what Customer Experience and Marketing are and the relationships that we see between them. In the end, we settle on an answer that should help organizations make the most of both teams.  Key Ideas to Improve your Customer Experience We have set up this episode as a court with Professor Hamilton presiding as the judge and jury to offer his unbiased decision. For our part, Sherman and I know that both the marketing and Customer Experience teams contribute a lot to the bottom line. We also understand that the two departments have many shared goals and metrics that measure their success. However, is one of them swallowing the other or do they both present value to the overall goal in equal parts? You'll have to listen to know for sure. Here are a few key moments in the discussion: 03:44 I define the topic of the debate based on a sentiment I have been hearing that CX is replacing marketing.  08:41 Sherman and I offer our Customer Experience and Marketing definitions, which set the foundation for further discussion of our positions. 15:48  I explain why marketing has a different and equally important role as Customer Experience in defining what the experience should be. 18:25  Sherman explains that the blend of skills and real-world application of experiences that makes Customer Experience the new marketing. 22:15  Ryan asks us why this discussion matters to organizations trying to deliver an experience that promotes customer-driven growth.  26:38 Ryan gives his decision and summarizes the issue for us all.  Please tell us how we are doing! Complete this short survey.  Customer Experience Information & Resources LinkedIn recognizes Colin Shaw as one of the 'World's Top 150 Business Influencers.' As a result, he has 289,000 followers of his work. Shaw is Founder and CEO of Beyond Philosophy LLC, which helps organizations unlock growth by discovering customers' hidden, unmet needs that drive value ($). The Financial Times selected Beyond Philosophy LLC as one of the best management consultancies for the last two years. Follow Colin on LinkedIn and Twitter. Click here to learn more about Professor Ryan Hamilton of Emory University.  Why Customers Buy: As an official "Influencer" on LinkedIn, Colin writes a regular newsletter on all things Customer Experience. Click here to join the other 22,000 subscribers.  Experience Health Check: You already have an experience, even if you weren't deliberate about it. Our Experience Health Check can help you understand what you have today. Colin or one of our team can assess your digital or physical Customer Experience, interacting with your organization as a customer to define what is good and what needs improving. Then, they will provide a list of recommendations for critical next steps for your organization. Click here to learn more.  How can we help? Click here to learn more about Beyond Philosophy's Suite of Services.

Welcome back everyone to The Omega Broadcast A Fallout Story. We find our main character Bryan Burton sitting in Boone's camp trying to figure out his next steps. Will he reprogram Professor Hamilton? Will he get his mom's transmission? Will he make it back to Omega? Let's find out. In this minisode, Bryan is desperately trying to reconnect with Carl and Omega. SUPPORT THE SHOW. Every aspect of this show is completely out of pocket! Sometimes licensing and equipment can be expensive, to ensure a top quality show. With our official Patreon, you'll have access to a few different tiers. Each one offers great bonuses and benefits for you the listener. https://www.patreon.com/TheOmegaBroadcast SPONSORS -AUDIOBOOKS.COM | Get 3 audiobooks FREE. This includes 2 VIP books. https://www.dpbolvw.net/click-100173810-11099382?sid=omega -LOOTCRATE | 15% off most crates or crate subscriptions. Use the link and code ROBOTSRADIO. https://www.kqzyfj.com/click-100173810-13902093?sid=omegab -GREENMAN GAMING | Get awesome discounts on games. https://www.tkqlhce.com/click-100173810-13764551?sid=omega PATREON SHOUT OUT! TRIZZLE PLAYS, CAPTAINREDBEARD, PedernalesFalls, and Bowser vonTollbooth THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT OF THE SHOW Voice Talent: Bryan Burton ~ Boone ~ Bishop Voiced By Bryan Gwatney / Professor Hamilton ~ Blood Eagle Raider Voiced By Dr. Mark Hauswirth / Mr Harold Voiced By Brandon Ledford / Lilly Voiced By Reen Hearst. Website: https://theomegabroadcast.com Social Media: The Bearcycle Show Youtube Channel The Bearcycle Show Twitch Channel The Bearcycle Show Twitter This podcast is not endorsed by or affiliated with Bethesda Softworks or ZeniMax Media and does not reflect the views or opinions of either company or anyone officially involved in producing or managing Fallout 76. Fallout content and materials are trademarks and copyrights of Bethesda Softworks or its licensors. Fallout and Fallout 2 are Copyright © 1997, 1998 Interplay Productions, Irvine, California, USA. Fallout 3, Fallout: New Vegas, Fallout 4, and Fallout 76 are Copyright © 2008, 2010, 2015, 2018 Bethesda Softworks LLC, a ZeniMax Media company. Fallout, Prepare for the Future and related logos are trademarks or registered trademarks of Bethesda Softworks LLC in the U.S. All other content is copyright by the author. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/theomegabroadcast/support

This episode of the New Books in Economic and Business History is an interview with Dr. Shane Hamilton, Senior Lecturer in Management at The York Management School, University of York. There he teaches Strategy and Business Humanities. He is the author of Trucking Country: The Road to America's Wal-Mart Economy (Princeton, 2008) and he is associate editor of Enterprise & Society and co-editor of the book series American Business, Politics, and Society of the University of Pennsylvania Press. He has published articles on food and agribusiness in different journals such as the Technology & Culture, Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, History of Retailing and Consumption, Enterprise & Society, Business History Review, and Agricultural History. Today our interview is centered around Professor Hamilton's latest book Supermarket USA, Food and Power in the Cold War Farms Race (published by Yale University Press in 2018).  America fought the Cold War in part through supermarkets—and the food economy pioneered then has helped shape the way we eat today Supermarkets were invented in the United States, and from the 1940s on they made their way around the world, often explicitly to carry American‘ style economic culture with them. This innovative history tells us how supermarkets were used as anticommunist weapons during the Cold War, and how that has shaped our current food system. The widespread appeal of supermarkets as weapons of free enterprise contributed to a “farms race” between the United States and the Soviet Union, as the superpowers vied to show that their contrasting approaches to food production and distribution were best suited to an abundant future. In the aftermath of the Cold War, U.S. food power was transformed into a global system of market power, laying the groundwork for the emergence of our contemporary world, in which transnational supermarkets operate as powerful institutions in a global food economy. I recommend you visit Dr. Shane Hamilton's website to learn about all his publications. Paula De La Cruz-Fernandez is a consultant, historian, and digital editor. New Books Network en español editor. Edita CEO. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This episode of the New Books in Economic and Business History is an interview with Dr. Shane Hamilton, Senior Lecturer in Management at The York Management School, University of York. There he teaches Strategy and Business Humanities. He is the author of Trucking Country: The Road to America's Wal-Mart Economy (Princeton, 2008) and he is associate editor of Enterprise & Society and co-editor of the book series American Business, Politics, and Society of the University of Pennsylvania Press. He has published articles on food and agribusiness in different journals such as the Technology & Culture, Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, History of Retailing and Consumption, Enterprise & Society, Business History Review, and Agricultural History. Today our interview is centered around Professor Hamilton's latest book Supermarket USA, Food and Power in the Cold War Farms Race (published by Yale University Press in 2018).  America fought the Cold War in part through supermarkets—and the food economy pioneered then has helped shape the way we eat today Supermarkets were invented in the United States, and from the 1940s on they made their way around the world, often explicitly to carry American‘ style economic culture with them. This innovative history tells us how supermarkets were used as anticommunist weapons during the Cold War, and how that has shaped our current food system. The widespread appeal of supermarkets as weapons of free enterprise contributed to a “farms race” between the United States and the Soviet Union, as the superpowers vied to show that their contrasting approaches to food production and distribution were best suited to an abundant future. In the aftermath of the Cold War, U.S. food power was transformed into a global system of market power, laying the groundwork for the emergence of our contemporary world, in which transnational supermarkets operate as powerful institutions in a global food economy. I recommend you visit Dr. Shane Hamilton's website to learn about all his publications. Paula De La Cruz-Fernandez is a consultant, historian, and digital editor. New Books Network en español editor. Edita CEO. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/economics

This episode of the New Books in Economic and Business History is an interview with Dr. Shane Hamilton, Senior Lecturer in Management at The York Management School, University of York. There he teaches Strategy and Business Humanities. He is the author of Trucking Country: The Road to America's Wal-Mart Economy (Princeton, 2008) and he is associate editor of Enterprise & Society and co-editor of the book series American Business, Politics, and Society of the University of Pennsylvania Press. He has published articles on food and agribusiness in different journals such as the Technology & Culture, Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, History of Retailing and Consumption, Enterprise & Society, Business History Review, and Agricultural History. Today our interview is centered around Professor Hamilton's latest book Supermarket USA, Food and Power in the Cold War Farms Race (published by Yale University Press in 2018).  America fought the Cold War in part through supermarkets—and the food economy pioneered then has helped shape the way we eat today Supermarkets were invented in the United States, and from the 1940s on they made their way around the world, often explicitly to carry American‘ style economic culture with them. This innovative history tells us how supermarkets were used as anticommunist weapons during the Cold War, and how that has shaped our current food system. The widespread appeal of supermarkets as weapons of free enterprise contributed to a “farms race” between the United States and the Soviet Union, as the superpowers vied to show that their contrasting approaches to food production and distribution were best suited to an abundant future. In the aftermath of the Cold War, U.S. food power was transformed into a global system of market power, laying the groundwork for the emergence of our contemporary world, in which transnational supermarkets operate as powerful institutions in a global food economy. I recommend you visit Dr. Shane Hamilton's website to learn about all his publications. Paula De La Cruz-Fernandez is a consultant, historian, and digital editor. New Books Network en español editor. Edita CEO. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/food

This episode of the New Books in Economic and Business History is an interview with Dr. Shane Hamilton, Senior Lecturer in Management at The York Management School, University of York. There he teaches Strategy and Business Humanities. He is the author of Trucking Country: The Road to America's Wal-Mart Economy (Princeton, 2008) and he is associate editor of Enterprise & Society and co-editor of the book series American Business, Politics, and Society of the University of Pennsylvania Press. He has published articles on food and agribusiness in different journals such as the Technology & Culture, Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, History of Retailing and Consumption, Enterprise & Society, Business History Review, and Agricultural History. Today our interview is centered around Professor Hamilton's latest book Supermarket USA, Food and Power in the Cold War Farms Race (published by Yale University Press in 2018).  America fought the Cold War in part through supermarkets—and the food economy pioneered then has helped shape the way we eat today Supermarkets were invented in the United States, and from the 1940s on they made their way around the world, often explicitly to carry American‘ style economic culture with them. This innovative history tells us how supermarkets were used as anticommunist weapons during the Cold War, and how that has shaped our current food system. The widespread appeal of supermarkets as weapons of free enterprise contributed to a “farms race” between the United States and the Soviet Union, as the superpowers vied to show that their contrasting approaches to food production and distribution were best suited to an abundant future. In the aftermath of the Cold War, U.S. food power was transformed into a global system of market power, laying the groundwork for the emergence of our contemporary world, in which transnational supermarkets operate as powerful institutions in a global food economy. I recommend you visit Dr. Shane Hamilton's website to learn about all his publications. Paula De La Cruz-Fernandez is a consultant, historian, and digital editor. New Books Network en español editor. Edita CEO. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

Desperate to be recognized for his inventions, Professor Hamilton puts Superman through a series of tests to prove that he is just as smart as Lex Luthor. We are joined by Chris Balga from World's Finest True Believers and Marvel Alliance for this story arc. You can find both shows over on the Geek Ultimate Alliance Network. Twitter: @comicrundown Instagram: @comicbookrundown Email: comicbookrundown@gmail.com Hosted by Joe Janero, Ron Hanes and Chris Balga Edited by Joe Janero Theme song provided by one of the Sex Turtles (Joe Cubas) Find our t-shirts at Redbubble and TeePublic https://www.redbubble.com/shop/comic+book+rundown?ref=search_box http://tee.pub/lic/vBbIJZ4eLQ0

The Freedom League stages several attacks in Metropolis, Clark Kent meets Cat Grant and Professor Hamilton for the first time, and Lex Luthor makes Lois Lane an offer she can't refuse. We are joined by Chris Balga from World's Finest True Believers and Marvel Alliance for this story arc. You can find both shows over on the Geek Ultimate Alliance Network. Twitter: @comicrundown Instagram: @comicbookrundown Email: comicbookrundown@gmail.com Hosted by Joe Janero, Ron Hanes and Chris Balga Edited by Joe Janero Theme song provided by one of the Sex Turtles (Joe Cubas) Find our t-shirts at Redbubble and TeePublic https://www.redbubble.com/shop/comic+book+rundown?ref=search_box http://tee.pub/lic/vBbIJZ4eLQ0

March Movie Madness Part 2 (of 3). Welp. It's here. We watched it. Is it better than the theatrical version? How did it get here? Did we like it? Tune in for all these answers, plus a lot of swearing. Also! Come back in a couple of weeks for our final "March" movie episode!  Have questions/comments/concerns? Shoot us an email: tencenttakes@gmail.com ----more---- Episode Transcript Mike: Ancient Lamentation is my new favorite type of music. Jessika: Warning: this is a spoiler full episode, discussing Zack Snyder's newly released Cut of DC's Justice League. If you haven't already seen this film and don't want to be completely spoiled, we'd recommend you check that out before joining us. You can't say we didn't warn you. Mike: Hello. This is Ten Cent Takes, the podcast where we ruin your favorite fandoms one issue at a time. My name is Mike Thompson. I am joined by my cohost of chaos, Jessika Frazier. Jessika: Hey, Mike. No I'm. That was hysterical. I did. Yeah, I know. Did you see my face? I was like, okay, don't breathe in too heavily. You're being recorded.  Mike: Yeah. Everything is forever on a podcast. If you're joining us for the first time, the purpose of this podcast is to talk about comic books and the things that connect to them in ways that are fun and informative. We want to look at the coolest, weirdest and silliest moments as well as examine how they are woven into the larger fabric of pop culture and history. Today, we are going to continue our run of March movie madness and talk about. Dun dun duh, the Snyder Cut, which just dropped a few days ago. Before we get to that topic though: Jess, what is one cool thing that you've read or watched recently?  Jessika: I grabbed some original print used comics from an absolute time capsule of an estate sale. I went to recently -masked of course- I hope everyone is staying safe. We are still mid- pandemic. So I didn't even look at the comics prior to purchasing them. But ooh boy, I found some treasures and we will talk about a couple of them later in a, probably a couple of upcoming episodes. But the one I looked through this week was an issue of Archie and friends from 1975. And this one just has this awful one- pager that it took me a really long time to get what it meant. I'm going to send it to you.  Mike: Okay.  Jessika: And then I'll tell you why I didn't understand it at first.  Mike: W- what?  Jessika: That was my reaction.  Mike: Huh? Okay. Should I describe this?  Jessika: Yeah, absolutely. Please. I've given you the worst thing.  Mike: This is a, a one-page comic call called little jinx, you know, L I apostrophe L jinx with an X and then "Weak End" as in W-E-A-K as in not strong end. So it's this little blonde girl in floral print bell-bottoms running up to her dad who is apparently painting a cupboard or something in the garage. And she says, "daddy, it hurts when I swallow." And the dad -who I guess is a relative of Archie based on his hair color and style- he says, come on little jinx," we'll get, we'll let our doctor look at it." And she goes, "er... Do I have to?" "Don't you want him to fix up your sore throat? "And then she says, "sure. But when he fixes this end" and she points at her throat, she then is like gesturing at her butt in the final panel. And she goes, "I have trouble with my other end when I sit down," which raises so many questions. Why namely, why would you take your child to the proctologist for a sore throat?  Jessika: I don't think that, yeah, well that too. I, you know, and I was trying to figure out, okay, wait, first of all, I'll get around. What's funny. It's probably not funny to us in this modern day. Um, and then I realized, Oh, wait, it's casual child abuse abuse. So it's it really, isn't funny because she's saying basically when she's able to talk, she says things that displeases her dad, which causes her. Uh, to be physically abused by him. So I just, you know, this has caused me to think, wow, I keep getting really upset at these old comics.  Mike: I interpreted it in a way that I think is arguably worse, which is that when she goes to the doctors, she gets the rectal thermometer, which is, I think still a thing back then. Jessika: Yeah. I think you're probably right about that too. So I don't know if it's both.  Mike: I don't, I don't know. I, it could, it could be either. It could be both.  Jessika: It's a million times awful either way.  Mike: It's terrible. I hate it. Thanks. I hate it.  Jessika: You're welcome. I had to see it. So, so did you, God, what about you?  Mike: Mine's a little less traumatizing. A couple of months ago. A friend of mine from college reached out to me.  He revealed that he was getting rid of stuff that free up some storage space. And so he sent me down a couple of boxes of comics from, you know, the eighties and early nineties. So I've been going through those and I came across the miniseries from Marvel GI Joe and Transformers. So it is a cross up of two of my favorite franchises. And it has the two most popular characters on the cover. It's got Snake Eyes and Bumblebee and the cover itself is kind of traumatizing. It's it's got Bumblebee getting blown apart by the GI Joes. So yeah, it's very much an eighties comic. It's a lot of fun though. And it feels like I'm a little kid again, mashing up my favorite action figures to have an adventure with my friends on a Saturday afternoon. So yeah.  Jessika: Well that's cool. Everybody wanted to see Transformers: Soldiers in Disguise, so...  Mike: Oh, that's so good. All right. You ready to do this?  Jessika: Oh, let's turn this page. Flip a table while we're at it.  Mike: Before we actually start talking about the Snyder Cut. I think we need to take a couple of minutes and talk about how we actually got to this point. Let's start at the beginning. How familiar with Zack Snyder and by extension his work in the DC universe are you?  Jessika: I mean peripherally, honestly, every time I hear "oh yeah, that was a Zack Snyder," I'm like, Oh, that makes sense. Yeah, that makes sense. But I don't, I don't know, like I wouldn't be able to point to any of his movies and be like, "those are classic Snyder, man."  Mike: Okay. Zack Snyder is pretty much synonymous with the DC Extended Universe at this point. And it's largely because he directed the first two movies, Man of Steel and Batman Versus Superman. Before that he was originally doing music videos and commercials. He wound up hitting a home run when he directed the 2004 version of Dawn of the Dead, which is still I think his best- reviewed movie. You know, and he's done adaptations of things like Watchman and 300, which is again, another, it was another big success for him. And then he did Man of Steel and Batman v Superman. And those movies are pretty divisive. And in fact, I would say that they're incredibly divisive. Everyone agrees that they're good looking movies. They're really beautiful. They're, you know, they're gorgeously shot, they've got amazing special effects, but they're really divisive amongst the fans and have you seen these? Jessika:  I've seen some of them and, I would... I'm gonna admit. I am more of a Marvel fan girl than I am DC for some, for some reasons, not that I'm opposed to seeing DC films, but I don't see them with as much enthusiasm. Let's just call it as I do Marvel films typically.  Mike: So which, which of the DC extended universe have you seen?  Jessika: I just recently had a whole, I've gone down a rabbit hole. I, so I've...  Mike: Yeah. You, you did your homework out of this. I think you've seen more than I have at this point. Jessika:  I recently watched Aquaman just because my brother and I wanted to watch it and I was like, okay, present this movie anyway. So might as well check it out. Mamoa is up. Then I watched... I was thinking, Oh, I'll just jump into Justice League. But then I realized I hadn't seen Batman Versus Superman, and I didn't realize how those correlated, like I didn't realize it was like, it was a one into another situation. And so my brother and I started watching it, I was looking down at my phone and the newspaper with "Superman is dead!" floats across the screen. And my brother turns it off and he's like, "wait a second. Have you seen...?"  And I was like, "shit, here we go." Because I'd been avoiding seeing that film just for the reason that I had been told "maybe, maybe skip that one" by multiple parties, which in the end I would have to agree except for the plot line tie-ins.  Mike: Right. What was your big complaint about Batman Versus Superman?  Jessika: The whole thing was just ridiculous. Honestly, the plot for me, it just, I had moral issues with a lot of the characters to start off with. Ben Affleck. I love Ben Affleck as Batman. Ben Affleck is a great Batman. I actually really like him as Batman. I do not like the writing choice to make him branding people.  Mike: Oh, that was a whole thing. That was fucking gross.  Jessika: I did not, I did not enjoy that at all. And having conversations with people, it frustrated me even more because they didn't see some of the people I was talking to. You didn't see any moral issues with that because quote unquote, they were bad guys anyway, kind of a vibe. And I was like, no, no, no, no, we don't let one person decide who's going to be the arresting officer, the judge, the jury and the execution, or that's, that's not the way this works. And there's a lot of implications for, you know, innocent. People being killed. And I mean, it, it, it is a really good allegory for our own justice system. Like a really intense version of it.  It bothered me so much that it wasn't done in a way that made people more negatively reactive to it, I would say.  Mike: The good news is that I think more people didn't like it, than you would assume based on the internet. I mean, first of all, like so many people that I know have huge problems with the DC Extended Universe and primarily to tone set by both Man of Steel and Batman Versus Superman, because they're so grim. In Man of Steel, you have a fairly joyless story, and then at the very end, you have this huge battle with all the Kryptonians that winds up leveling Metropolis. And it's, you know, the result is thousands of people die and then Batman Versus Superman kind of tries to correct for that, where it's like, "Oh, they're trying to hold Superman accountable." In turn Batman is -just in the few hours that we watch him- a mass murderer. Jessika: Yeah.  Mike: And then to your point, not only is he  murdering people, but also he will sit there and survivors of like the criminals that he takes down, he will then brand them with like a heated up batarang or something. It's been a while since I saw it, I just remember the shape of the batarang on the skin. And then when they go to jail, they get like beaten to death for no explained reason. The label that started circulating as soon after this came out was  the DC Murderverse. It came from a really funny article that was written as a spoiler FAQ for io9 by Rob Bricken. And he founded the blog topless robot and then he was an editor for, for io9 for awhile. And it is both one of the funniest things that you will ever read and also one of the most damning. And one of the best, one of the best lines in it is "welcome to the DC Murderverse. Hope you survive." And then in parentheses: "you won't, Batman will murder you." But I mean, there's another scene in it where, you know, you see Batman drive the Batmobile up I think, uh, the back of a truck. And the bumper is within an inch of a dude's head and then it cuts away. But it is very heavily implied that his head did a very realistic imitation of an overripe pumpkin getting smashed with a baseball bat. And so a lot of people have massive problems with Zack Snyder, taking a fairly brutal nihilistic approach with the fandoms. I'm not going to lie. I'm one of those people. I spent a long time thinking that he just didn't understand these characters and we'll come back to that later on. Batman Versus Superman wound up causing a pretty big course correction and Warner Brothers acknowledged that it was problematic.  I think they would have written it off. It had a massive opening, like I think it was the top. It was the number nine grossing film of the year or something like that. But what happened was, if you look at the actual box office data, it also featured the most extreme drop-off I think in film history at the time of the Friday to Sunday box office, like it was very front-loaded. It took in a heinous amount of money on Friday. And by that Sunday word of mouth that started to get around. And so it was just dropping off fast and it was a movie that, that did really well at the box office, when you stop and think about it. I think it, I think it earned around $350-400 million, but it was all front-loaded. People weren't going back to see it. And the other thing is that -based on the elements that we've discussed- people with kids weren't going to see it. They weren't taking their kids. Jessika: Yeah, you're removing an entire demographic. And not only that, a lot of the times parents don't get the opportunity to go to the movie theater to see these things. So if they're not going as a family, you're also losing those parents as, as part of that demographic. In my opinion, I don't know if that's actually factually based.  Mike: Well, I mean, I don't think you're wrong. Speaking of someone who has step-kids and the other thing is that so many kids with little parents will take their kids to a movie because we just want fucking five minutes of silence and quiet and calm, and we will take those children -depending on what's available- we will take those kids to go see the same movie multiple times. I mean, my mom took me to see the original Ninja turtles movie four times in the theater. And I've since talked to her, uh, having watched it since then it acknowledging it's not nearly as good as I remember it. And I remember when I talked to her about it and I apologized for making her take me to see it so many times the last time she was like, "meh, it was fine. I just sat in the lobby and read a book and wait until you came out. I wasn't worried." Jessika: That's amazing. Can you imagine parents these days doing that?  Mike: Oh my God. I don't want to. CPS would be called on your ass so fast.  Jessika: Yeah, no, it was a different, different time. I sound so old.  Mike: Yeah. The seventies and eighties were that, that golden age of latchkey kids.  Batman Versus Superman came out, it didn't make nearly as much money as they wanted it to. I think it wound up at the, at the worldwide box office making about $200 million less than they expected it to. Meanwhile, Suicide Squad came out and actually overperformed, they sorta evened out. Wonder Woman came out between all these and Justice League, and performed gangbusters business. And then Snyder started to shoot Justice League. So he's shot the principal footage for Justice League and then in March, 2017, he very understandably stepped away from the movie because his daughter committed suicide.  Jessika: Oh, I wasn't aware of this.  Mike:  Yeah. It's one of those things where you have to acknowledge that this happened because the man suffered a horrifying personal tragedy that you would not wish on anyone. And after this happened, Joss Whedon stepped in Zack Snyder apparently actually asked for Joss Whedon to take over. DC and Warner Brothers brought him in. And it was really big news at the time, because this was the guy who had singlehandedly, you know, in fan's eyes unified, the Marvel Cinematic Universe. He had created the Avengers movie. He had then done Age of Ultron, which wasn't as well received, but he was really popular at this point. And people were really enthusiastic about this. In fact, some people were so enthusiastic that it was actually really gross, how a lot of outlets treated it. So a lot of the more fan- oriented websites and outlets were treating this with, with headlines like Zack Snyder is out shall sweeten is in, and they were really trying to frame it as Oh, "DC fired Zack Snyder and brought in Joss Whedon to fix Justice League," which wasn't the case. It was absolutely vital the way that some of those outlets played it, none of the major ones did. In fact, I was doing a search on the web and it's really hard to find those sites with those stories because they got so much backlash that a lot of them got taken down. But I remember it circulating on Twitter, on film Twitter and comics Twitter at the time that it all happened. And it was really gross not to go into too much detail, but it's since been revealed that Whedon fostered a pretty toxic environment on set as did DC's chief creative officer, Geoff Johns. Cyborg actor, Ray Fisher, was really outspoken about this and wound up potentially nuking his film career. This was his first big role and it took a lot of guts for him to come out and not only make the public accusations, but then stick with them for a long period of time. And it wound up creating an investigation which ultimately left him pretty vindicated. Joss, I think has wound up if I remember right, he wound up losing a TV deal with Warner Brothers, you know, and now he is kind of persona non grata. Eight months after he stepped in his version of the movie came out and it was really underwhelming, both in terms of reviews and in box office take, in fact it was the lowest box office take out of the entire DC Extended Universe. Yeah. As opposed to the Avengers, which I think set box office records, I think it was the top grossing domestic movie or  the second top second highest. It was a pretty notable fall from grace. And we'll talk about that later on, especially our issues with the film, but a section of Snyder's fans immediately started to latch onto the idea that there was a director's cut out there. And it was something true to his vision as the grand culmination of the DCEU and that it was just sitting on a shelf somewhere. And Warner Brothers was screwing over their favorite director by not letting his fans experience his vision because they got scared of how brilliant it was or, or something. Um, side note that didn't exist. It wasn't real. Snyder has since acknowledged to Vanity Fair that he had the footage for a director's cut on his laptop, but it didn't have visual effects. It didn't have music, it wasn't refined at all. It was just something that he would show to friends when they were over at his house. So this group of outraged fans started the hashtag "release the Snyder Cut," and it began spreading all over the internet and picking up steam. And eventually even Snyder and the movie star started sharing the hashtag. But the movement was really problematic because of how toxic the campaigns. A lot us champions were Joanna Robinson wrote a really excellent article for Vanity Fair about the campaign noting, and this is a direct quote, "plenty of earnest pleas came with the hashtag, but also vitriol was extreme even for Twitter, including harassment campaigns targeted at critics, HBO Max, Warner Brothers, and its employees. Former DCEU film chief Geoff Johns left the platform entirely after receiving endless Twitter attacks and director James Gunn, who was hired to write and direct a Suicide Squad Sequel for the studio discovered that his new gig came with at least one death threat from a user with a Batman avatar.  Jessika: Not a good luck. Mike: No, the movement from my end, as someone who has no connection to the film industry reminded me a lot of Gamergate, which I had a lot more connection to. Because at the time I was working in the video games industry and I'd come over from the side of being a tech slash games journalist. And it was really worrisome to watch this whole Snyder Cut thing go on, because I had seen a lot of my friends, especially that were women from the parts of the industry that I was involved with, really awfully treated and it really made my stomach turn. And it was really upsetting because at the time my company that I was working for basically told us not to talk about Gamergate. And it was really upsetting. So there was this weird Venn diagram kind of miasma between the two groups and it continued to drive home how toxic nerd culture can be.  Jessika: Yeah. Mike: Anyway.  Jessika: That's why we love all the nerds here. Just however you want to be a nerd, but just don't be mean to others. That's the whole thing you don't need to, you don't need to be mean in your nerdom. It doesn't have to be a contest either. Like you can just like things.  Mike: Yeah. It makes me really sad to watch these really toxic elements, shout the loudest and thus they get the most attention. And most of the nerds that I know are lovely, wonderful people. It just bums me out. And that is an understatement in an extreme regard, but it's just so upsetting to watch this continue to happen over and over again. And it's been really picking up steam over the past decade. We're going to fast forward now to February of last year. So Warner brothers has just announced that they're going to commit another $70 million to letting Zack Snyder complete his vision. And then he's going to release the Snyder Cut exclusively on HBO max, which I can't remember at the time, if it was actually live or not. I think they had three different versions of streaming HBO platforms and then they also had the DC universe. And there was also the AT&T acquisition of Warner Brothers going on at the time. So they were trying to sit there and centralize all these different fandoms into one platform that would pay 15 bucks a month or whatever. So they need exclusive content. And now here we are a year later and the Snyder Cut dropped about four days ago and we both watched it. What was your reaction first of all, to Joss Whedon's version, because I remember you, you watched that recently, right?  Jessika: So not only did I, I love torturing myself. Not only did I watch it the day before I watched the Snyder Cut. I also watched it the day after I watched the Snyder Cut. And I'll tell you why as I was watching the Snyder Cut.  (You lost a bet?)  No. Yeah, I know. Right. It feels like it, um, to myself, maybe I couldn't, I really had to identify. What exactly had been removed from that other, you know, to make the Whedon, the Whedon version of it.  Mike: And I mean, a lot seemed to have been removed.  Jessika: How did it get this diluted?  Mike: Yeah. And I mean like the, the Joss Whedon version was two hours long, you know, as opposed to the four hours that we get with a Snyder Cut. Jessika: Yes. I would say that when I first watched it, it was confusing. It took a while for the narrative to tell the story of the mother boxes. And even then the explanation felt really flimsy. The new Justice League characters felt like they were just sandwiched into the movie to push the plot narrative. And we didn't really get the chance to get invested in their well-being enough to care what ultimately happened to them. In my opinion, we just didn't know enough about them. I mean, I don't kind of, didn't give a fuck about Cyborg at the end of the movie. I'm not going to lie. We didn't get enough of him. And he just seemed like this stoic non- character. He just seemed like a filler. Yeah. He was a red shirt.  Mike: Yeah. Except he didn't die.  Jessika: Except he didn't die, but he was, he could have died and nobody would have cared. Mike: No, no one would have. And I mean, it's funny that you bring up the thing about the mother boxes because when Justice League came out, I was actually really grumpy about the mother boxes because I felt it was again a colossal misunderstanding of a very important piece of DC cannon lore. And I remember I actually wound up texting with Sarah. We'd only been dating for about a month by that point. And I had this whole rant. Talking about how mother boxes are generally these neutral, good things from the comics, from the bonkers, Jack Kirby, New Gods/Fourth World continuity that he created, which is where Darkseid comes from and all that. And largely they're these neutral to kind of neutral, good benevolent self-aware supercomputers that can perform all these tasks. They open up boom tubes, which are how the New Gods get around the universe and everything. They also can repair and heal, and they are defined by this definition of love, where when their user dies, they actually commit suicide. It felt kind of like peak Zack Snyder, where he took a thing that was known in DC comics as a relatively benign creation, defined by love and turning it into a weapon of mass destruction. Jessika: Wow.  Mike: They made it better in this version. I felt.  Jessika: Agreed.  Mike: But I was so angry about it. And I remember texting Sarah about this whole thing. And then I went and saw the movie. I was just so grumpy about that one element for the longest time. I, I have not seen it since it came out in theaters, you know, and at the time it was really remarkable that it looked as cheap as it did considering it had a $300 million budget, which means that now Justice League has cost AT&T 400 million or Warner brothers 400 million to make. I don't... film finances are very weird, but, but ultimately we are looking at a movie that costs 400, almost $400 million to make, not including any of the marketing costs, which are just astronomical at this point. You know, and I, I described it back then as a solid five out of 10 And that rating's kind of slipped over time. Like, I I'd say it's a three or a four now. There there's just, there's so much stuff that didn't make sense. And none of the new characters really felt like characters. Like you said, that said, I will say it looks even a weaker now when you compare it to what just came out and, you know, I, I have my own quibbles about that version of the movie, but it's certainly a lot better than what was released in 2017. Jessika: Yeah. Doing a side-by-side I'm going to have to agree with you on that too.  Mike: Moving into my reactions to the Snyder Cut. I have to say I was pleasantly surprised overall. I really didn't go in expecting much, but this was a much more coherent film that took the time to develop its characters and felt... not a lot, but a bit more faithful to canonical DC lore. Like I told you about the mother boxes, I thought that was a pretty vast misunderstanding. But then in this one, there's the line where Cyborg. It says that they're changed engines. They don't really perceive good or evil. They're all about changing things and it's not great, but I didn't have a problem with that as a comic book fan, that said a pretty big problem with how Snyder's movies are just so violent and Justice League really continued that trend. Jessika: Yeah. Mike: I mean, at the end of the day, these are comic book movies and they have a ton of merchandise marketed towards kids, but none of them are things that I would want to take my kids to that said some of the other DC extended universe, I would totally take the kids to go see, I I've shown my stepson. Shizam it's one of his favorite movies. We've let him watch Wonder Woman. Which you know, you and I have discussed it. It's got its own issues, but it's still a pretty kid friendly movie as opposed to Superman recreating 9/11 on his own or, or Batman terrorizing an entire city for two decades.  Jessika: Yeah.  Mike: Also like, can we talk about how Batman outfits, all of his vehicles with guns, which is just fucking weird. Jessika: That is a very strange choice.  Mike: It continued in this, like we saw Wonder Woman, literally murdering terrorists. I'm still kind of floored at how lazy that scene was, where they're just like, Oh, we don't have any goals to this. These terrorists move into a, I guess, a government building or something like that. I don't know where it was. It was somewhere in there.  Jessika: Not very well explained. Yeah.  Mike: Yeah. Yeah. And then when she sits there and tries to interrogate them with her lasso it's, "we don't have goals. We're just extremists who..." something about resetting Europe back to the middle ages and it's not well explained. And then she just. Drops down and goes completely ham on all of these dudes. And it is not subtle the whole, like she, you see her kick a dude in the wall and there is a very vivid red stain on the wall behind him afterwards. And it's literally in front of a group of school girls.  Jessika: That's exactly it. And I, I feel like with this scene, one of the things that I preferred in this cit over the Whedon version is that at least at the end, she was trying to calm everybody down and they showed that piece of it. That kind of more human piece of you expect Diana to do, but that was completely removed from the first version, that theatrical version of it.  Mike: Yeah, absolutely. And the theatrical version was also going for that PG- 13 rating so that they could be as marketable as possible. And, you know, I guess Diana showcasing her kindness was just deemed something that could hit the chopping room floor in order to get that much more time back. And then they could squeeze in one more showing of the film in the theater for the day. But I mean, this was a recurring theme. Like Superman comes back and then he tries to murder Batman with his heat vision. That was something that wasn't in the, in the Joss Whedon version, but he straight up tries to murder Batman. And as he's doing so the police and the national guard that are there that are trying to contain the situation, get caught in the crossfire and would have straight up died if not for the other members of the League. And then also, you know, Steppenwolf keeps on popping up and going bonkers with his ax and just lopping people in half right and left. Like that scene where he teleports into Atlanta's you see multiple people bisected with that act?  Jessika: Yeah. It's really, really graphic.  Mike: How did you feel about all the exposition? Cause there was a lot of it.  Jessika: It was too much. I mean, I think back to your point about over-correcting this was an overcorrection, you know, we, yeah, we needed a little bit more. We needed slightly more, but it's like, please sir, can I get s'more? And they threw the whole bucket on us and that's not what we asked for. You know, I, I don't know. Maybe some people asked for that. I didn't necessarily need that in my life. It just was such an overabundance of, "Oh, it's this person to tell you what's happening right this second and what's going on." And uh, it's just, ugh.  Mike: It was a fire hose. There wasn't even a bucket.  Jessika: Yeah, I agree. Mike: And I mean, like that was the flip side of the plot being a lot more coherent, but so much of it came in the form of exposition. Like that whole giant battle scene with Apokolips was a lot of fun, but we didn't need constant narration from Diana. Explaining everything that was happening. And then on top of that, the placement of it was so random where she just shows up and Bruce Wayne is working on his plane thing and then she's like, "Oh, and then this happened." And then it's this whole scene that feels incredibly out of place. I don't understand why they didn't pull a Lord of the Rings and just put this all at the beginning.  Jessika: Yeah. Agreed, agreed. It would've made a lot more sense at that point to, you know, bringing it back to if you're trying to make it more coherent. Mike: I mean, this is the way that I felt, but I like to be taken on a narrative ride and we never got that this time around, we were just shown a lot of what happened and then these omniscient narrators were explaining it to us.  Jessika: Yeah. Yeah. I'd agree with that.  Mike: The other thing is that you mentioned that like these new characters were really kind of sandwiched in and the Joss Whedon version. And in this one, they got a lot more screen time and development time. How did you feel about the Flash, Aquaman, and Cyborg and what the movie did with them this time around as opposed to last time? Jessika: So what I wanted out of this, if you're going to keep it in this direction, I think that if you were going to have so many new characters, yes, you absolutely have to explain where they come from, especially for folks who aren't familiar with the DC universe and comics or other, you know, other forms. That being said, I really wish they had done this in a mini series where they could have really focused on "this is what happened with Victor in Cyborg's perspective," and maybe told a portion of the story, or, you know, did you see House on Haunted Hill or Haunting of Hill house? That's what it was. Each  Mike: Yeah.... The Netflix series, right? Yeah. That was really good.  Jessika: And what I liked about that, and I really think they could have done a really good job of doing it this way is each episode they layered in new person's perspective that told you just a little bit more of the story. I feel like this plot line had all of the makings of that and it would have been really cool to see it build up. And I feel like you could have gained a lot of really good fan base excitement around, okay, we're going to show you episode one and then you get a week to talk about it. And then we're going to show you episode two, and then you get a week to talk about it. And I think in the same way that Wandavision had such good presence and such good reaction from the fan base, I feel like in a way there's the potential that there could have been the same thing that being said. When I think of. DC TV shows. I think of the CW, which is not necessarily a good correlation, you know, alternatively, I don't know that I would have necessarily had full faith in the making a TV show because of what they have produced in TV shows in the past, unless you were to make it... I think if you would put Snyder's name on it regardless, you probably could have amplified it to a place where it needed to be, to kind of outgrow that. And actually that maybe would've been a good direction for their TV shows to kind of get a good spotlight into, but what do I know?  Mike: Yeah. Going off on a, on a side tangent, I have generally enjoyed the, the CW shows. I haven't watched all of them, but they're fun. They're disposable Legends of Tomorrow really became a fun experience after it turned into Doctor who, but with superheroes.  You know, the Flash at this point, I think they're on what season seven or something like that. Now I haven't watched for awhile. But something they actually did was during their big crossover, which, you know, you normally don't see in TV shows and they turned it into an annual thing. They did, uh, I think it was Crisis on Infinite Earths. And at the end of it, they actually had Ezra Miller show up in his Snyder Flash costume, and then there's Grant Gustin on the other side, it's really a charming scene where they're sitting there and talking about how much they like each other's costumes. Jessika: Yeah. That's actually really wholesome.  Mike: It actually makes me really happy when I think about that. Yeah. It's really fun. I think the new character is definitely benefited in this version of the movie. I really liked Barry Allen's intro. Actually. I thought it was really solid. We'll get into this because the Snyders' movies are always very male gazey. Women are not really well done as characters in his movies. That said, I thought as her Miller's Flash, was pretty fun. I loved the sequence where he was applying for jobs. And then we see him talking to his dad. And there's the little bit where his dad's like, "you know, where's the, where did this interest in criminal justice come from?" And he goes, "Oh yeah, where did this interest come from? It couldn't be the fact that my dad was committed for murdering my mom, which he didn't do. And I want to prove that he didn't do it." And I was like, that's fine. That's great. The whole Cyborg thing where he's getting the training montage narrated by his dad. I was okay with that too. I thought it was actually really neat when it was showing him wandering through the internet and he looks human and then he winds up helping out that for waitress who is just getting screwed over by the system. Aquaman, I thought was kind of the least interesting character in terms of backstory, because they were trying to do a backdoor pilot basically for his movie that was coming up. And so they have Willem Defoe show up as Volko. And we were like, we don't fucking know who this guy is. The only reason that we know who he is now is because Aquaman has come out since Justice League. And Amber Heard as Mera, which whatever, the less said, the better, but they're sitting there and providing so much exposition about his brother or about his mother and how Mera's using his Tridents and who cares? The only thing that saved this for me was the fact that Aquaman has played by everybody's future ex-husband Jason Mamoa Jessika: Mhm. Never wearing a shirt nor do I want him to. Mike: I will forgive Zack Snyder for so much just for the fact that he gave us so much shirtless Jason Mamoa  Jessika: It's true. That was a heavy pause. You were, I might leave in part of that pause. Cause you were like, you were thinking heavily on it. There was, it was weighted. Mike: I'm not sorry. Jessika: Don't be. Aquaman as the fun, loving the surfer, bro. Was such a great casting decision and direction. I mean, I was so glad that they kept in the bit where he, in that final scene in Russia, he stabs a Parademon and then surfs him through the sky, into a building and then surfs him out of the building and jumps off and does a hair flip. And I was so happy they kept that in.  Mike: I was too, although my one qualm with, with Jason Mamoa and how they, they wrote him, this is such a little nitpicky thing, but there's no way he would have like thrown a glass bottle into the ocean with such reckless lack of care. Like he did. There's no way. And it was in bold cuts. And I was like, come on, Snyder Well, right. That kind of goes back to my earlier point where I used to think that Snyder doesn't understand the major DC characters that he's putting on the film because he pulls shit like that. Or he gives Batman guns or he has Superman try to murder the police or Wonder Woman killing people in front of children, you know, or... well, the flashy actually I felt got pretty good, but it just, it always felt like this thing where I was like, Oh, I think you see these comic book panels that you really like, and then you decide to recreate them on film. And then his brand is a very traditional over the top type of masculinity. Like you look at the movies he's done and they are all super male gazey. Like they are all about women as objects and men as power fantasies. It's not even up for discussion. 300 and Sucker Punch, I think are the two movies I hold up as examples of that. And they're really pretty, but they don't hold up too much scrutiny in terms of depth.  Jessika: Speaking of it, being for the male gaze Barry, I find low key cringey in both films, but like in different ways, which is interesting.  Mike: Right?  Jessika: And the attrical Barry has that really gross moment of falling directly onto Wonder Woman's breasts that was cut out of Snyder's version. And like that's not the characters fault, but it's how it was written. Was it knocked out?  Mike: No. So actually that is a scene that's pretty controversial. Apparently Joss Whedon was recreating a scene from Avengers: Age of Ultron, where Bruce falls onto Natasha, the black widow. You know, he was apparently really bitter about how Age of Ultron was not as well received. So he was kind of just recreating things from Age of Ultron that he thought were going to play really well this time around. This isn't confirmed, but at least a couple of journalists have commented on this, on Twitter at that scene, Gal Gadot refuse to film it. So they had a body double actually do that sequence. Jessika: Okay. Yeah. I know what that actually, the way I'm like thinking of how her head was with, I think her head was to the side. It was. Wow. Wow. Wow. Well that I, that makes me feel a little bit better. Good for you girl. That's, that's amazing that they had this whole infatuation with Barry, this random woman he's just met or he's just kind of run into, we didn't even meet her. Mike: No. And the thing is, you wouldn't know this, but like the thing is that they had announced her casting and all that. So that's supposed to be Iris West, who is the woman that he winds up marrying. And, you know, in comics cannon, they are one of, you know, the, the, the fa- their marriage is one of the foundations of the DC universe. It's like them and Superman and Lois lane, and a couple of others, but Barry Allen and Iris West are one of those really just kind of like permanent foundations of the DC cosmos.  Jessika: Well, then this is a really unfortunate choice and how it was chosen to, I don't know, I get Barry being infatuated and kind of watching after her. And that would have been all well and good. That's whatever you're going to do. My dude, you saw a pretty lady. That's fine, but it was them feeling the need to also make her as she's driving look like in a completely different direction to the side, watching him as well. And somehow that also felt like it contributed to the accident, even though that other guy also had something going on, you know, really coincidentally, you know, it just, it felt really, um, contrived and it felt very gazey in that way. But then also he does that thing where he gets closer instead of just fucking saving her. He has to like brush the fucking hair out of her face and like fucking touch her face. And it just was so gross to me. She didn't have a choice, like, yes, maybe he was helping her, but that doesn't mean you have the right to touch her as well.  Mike: Yeah. And I think if they had taken that one bit out of that scene, I think it would have been perfect because he's this kind of socially awkward weirdo, which I actually really enjoyed because you don't see that a lot. And then there's the whole bit where he grabs the hot dog and then he uses it with the dogs afterwards, which I thought was clever and funny, I thought that was really cute. But the thing is, is everything about this movie, every time they did stuff, I liked, I would then wind up throwing my hands into the air about 10 seconds later because of some weird cringey decision that they did for whatever.  Jessika: That was exactly how I felt. Mike: And that said, other than that one moment where it's like, Hmm, okay. So I knew who that was supposed to be. And I was like, yeah, they're supposed to be, you know, destined to be together. And again, they're trying to set that backdoor pilot information up for Barry Allen and the Flash, which that movie is never fucking happening. It's had so many production problems, but Oh my God, everything else about that scene. That was great. I, I thought one of the coolest things was the bit where he rips out of his shoes because he's moving so fast. I thought that was such a great little touch and  Jessika: exactly.  Mike: I mean, that's something that Zack Snyder does really well is he makes these incredibly visually arresting sequences. And I, I also love the bit where they show, how Barry all he does is he just very lightly touches things because he's moving so fast that if he does anything more than that, it will destroy whatever he's interacting with. And so you saw that initially with the glass window in, and then later on where you see him very gently taking her down, you know, and it's, it's like a tender embrace, which with that setup makes a lot of sense. I really liked that though the whole bit where, where he has to be so gentle with everything, because he's moving so fast that it made sense that he would save Iris in a way that looked almost like a gentle embrace. And that part didn't feel gross.  Jessika: No, exactly. That felt necessary. And to your point, it felt like he was doing what needed to be done so that she was safe in the end. Mike: Yeah. Jessika: Okay. Wait, there was one other Berry thing that I didn't like though. One more. And then I'll and then I'm done with Barry for now. It was so unnecessary and just why there was the point in the movie where Barry's talking to Victor and he goes, so what do you think, do you think Diane is into younger men? It was so unnecessary. And especially after you telling me about this whole Iris business. Okay. If you've already got your eye on someone, why are you trying to get at Wonder Woman?  Mike: No. And again, okay. So this goes back to my earlier point of like, I don't think Zack Snyder understands DC characters. I think he thinks he does and that we don't.  Jessika: Zack, honey.  Mike: You could have cut that scene out. It served no real purpose. It's like, yeah, they're digging up the mother box, whatever who fucking cares. You could have cut that out. And it would have been fine. Barry scamming on Wonder Woman was just kind of an eye-roll moment. And I was like, this is dumb. I will say that overall, I did like Flash, Cyborg and Aquaman. I actually, I really liked the fact that Joe Morton, the guy who played Cyborg's dad, he was on the show Smallville in a recurring role as Professor Hamilton, who was another STAR Labs employee, you know, almost 20 years ago. And I thought that was actually kind of a nice little throwback and overall the moments of levity, I generally, like, I felt like most of them hit pretty well. And a lot of that levity was delivered by Barry or by Aquaman.  Jessika: I would agree.  Mike: And I also have to say it's a really good-looking movie. Like, especially when you compare it to the theatrical version, I wish Zack Snyder would learn to use color a little more. Sarah described it as "we get it, dude. You like to film things in, black."  Jessika: Open his wardrobe. That's all he has.  Mike: What were your favorite things about the movie?  Jessika: Well, I felt like this version definitely felt more narratively succinct. And with the caveat that I agree that it's too much. So, you know, I, I know that I already went through that a little bit, so I won't focus on that too much, but I felt like the boss scenes, there was so much taken away from them because we spent so much time that we had what we're supposed to be, these big, epic battle scenes that felt really diminished because of the rest of the exposition that was kind of taking place around it. Things that I did like, yeah, I did like that the Amazons got a larger and more Epic battle added bonus. My goal Robin Wright was back.  Mike: That was so good. Yeah. All of that was so good.  Jessika: What was such a bummer was that we didn't see the temple fall in that first one. And I, I think that was such a, that was such a big moment then it, I think it meant so much more that there was actual physical destruction. It was such a good representation of the metaphor of them being physically destroyed by the fact that they failed to protect this mother box. This was their one job that temple's one job to protect this. It could not do it. It is gone now.  Mike: I'm actually really excited about the Amazon spinoff movie that they're planning to do. Cause I'm like, yeah, I'm, I'm fine with just two hours of the Amazons being a bunch of bad-asses.  Jessika: Absolutely. Which means could it be possible that this will be a movie completely devoid of men? There's a very good possibility, which just puts my heart a flutter. There are plenty of movies -before everyone gets all uppity- there are plenty of movies with literally no women in them.  Mike: Yeah.  Jessika: You know, let's throw one in our direction. Why not?  Mike: Exactly. I don't know, but I'm really excited about it. It's funny because we still have these movies on the slate, you know, that's coming down the pipeline. And people keep on screaming about how the Snyderverse needs to be restored. The Snyderverse is still here. Wonder Woman is still part of the Snyderverse Shazam is still part of the Snyderverse. But the thing is that the Snyderverse is not actually the Snyderverse. It's the DCEU; Zack Snyder started it, but he's not the person that gets to define what the DCEU is. It's it's Warner Brothers and AT&T ultimately kind of like, you know, how Disney gets to determine, the MCU. What were your biggest problems with the movie? I'm curious,  Jessika: You know, the movie's already so damn long. We did not need those stupid ass post-apocalyptics cenes. Those were stupid. They didn't make it a no, you know, we get it. You want to make another movie. Fuck off and make another movie, but you don't have to show us a half an hour of it in this movie. This is this movie.  Mike: No. And you know that Zack Snyder was really gearing up to make that it's quote "the knightmare sequence" that knight as in K N I G H T. Because of course it is. The fact that he's included both the sequences in his movies, you know that he really wanted to make an entire movie set with that as the backdrop. And this was all the lead-up. Again, these are movies for kids. I don't want to see Superman murder the entire fucking planet because his girlfriend died, which they're like, "Oh no, Lois Lane died and, you know, he's going crazy."  Jessika: Sorry, but Superman is a fucking alien. Who's going to live so much longer than Lois Lane. The very best he can hope for is that she is going to grow old and die in his arms. And I hate to be that way, but it is the truth. And you know, what's more realistic because of his line of work. And her line of work quite frankly, is that she is probably going to lose her life a lot earlier than most people, most healthy white women, let's say yes.  Mike: Yes. And I'm gonna jump in with one of my big problems with a movie, which is, I feel that the Snyderverse does Lois Lane real fucking dirty. She exists to be put in danger and then to be sad about Superman then, I mean, that, that's kind of going back to the whole male gazy thing. It's like women in this movie other than Diana exist to be threatened, which is what happened with the Amazons -even though they got a bad-ass action sequence, it was all about them being used to wipe the floor by Steppenwolf- to be sad, which was the whole dialogue scene between Lois and Martha -which by the way, not even Martha, we'll get to that in a second- or to be put in danger and just saved like, you know, like Iris West and  Barry Allen, or Mira and Aquaman, that whole thing where Aquaman comes in out of the blue and saves her at the last minute from Steppenwolf. Jessika: Hey, going back really quick to the post-apocalyptic stuff, are we to assume now that Brucey boy has some sort of like future vision. What the fuck is that like, he's just some normal ass rich dude.  Mike: It's not explained, but it's really implied that he's suddenly receiving visions of the future for no fucking reason. Jessika: Nah, that's stupid as fuck. Mike:  I don't understand.  Jessika: Come at me, Zack Snyder, that's stupid as fuck.  Mike: It's ridiculous. I am going to say I did like one thing out of that, which was I -ugh-, I mean, like the first episode I talked about how Jared Leto, I was like, Oh God, he looks like the nun on his day off.  Jessika: Um, I mean, no lie.  Mike: The other thing is that in Suicide Squad, his character and acting was just insufferable. I couldn't stand it. And in this one in the two minutes of footage of the Joker that we saw, I actually really enjoyed it. I liked the whole speech that he gave. I liked the bit where he was talking about the losses that Batman had suffered both as a son and as a father, I thought that was great. And the whole bit where he's like, "Oh, so I'm gonna present a truce. It's going to be in the form of this card. And when you want to end it, just tear it up."  And I thought that was such a cool moment and they fucking ruined it again, where Bruce Wayne immediately goes, "well, when Harley Quinn died in my arms, she begged me to kill you. And I will-" and this is what he actually says, "and I will fucking kill you." And I'm like, wuh- I'm out.  Jessika: I hate about that situation. It's like, if you want to off him, you clearly don't have any issues offing people just get rid of him, stop terrorizing him. But I guess that's Batman's MO. He literally told somebody in both versions, I believe I want you to fear me or whatever the fuck he says, he's going for active fear and terrorization. Yeah.  Mike: Yeah. Well, and that kind of ties into what happened right after the knightmare sequence vision, which is Bruce Wayne wakes up. And then we get the most useless, goddamn cameo in the entire movie of the Martian Manhunter, who is portrayed by Harry Lennix. And he has one other scene, which again, going back to my earlier point, Martha Kent, after she leaves Lois's apartment, when they bonded over being sad about Superman being dead turns into the Martian Manhunter and there, I don't remember what the line was that Lois said, it was something about like, well, the world needed Superman or something like that. And then, and then the Martian Manhunter you see him... Martha turns into the green-skinned Martian Manhunter who, by the way, it looks like ass. I'm sorry. I think it's one of the ugliest character designs I've ever seen. And then it turns into Harry Lennix in a military uniform and Harry Lennix has some line of like, well, the world needs you to Ms. Lane.  And then he walks off with no further explanation. And then he shows up at the very end of the movie and delivers a speech about, Oh, well, you know, you handled Darkseid well, but I'll be around. And by the way, you can call me Martian Manhunter.  Jessika: It was a barbershop quartet of exposition for sure. Mike: It's such bullshit. It is, again, it goes back to that thing of like Zack Snyder clearly wanted to do another movie. He was trying to set it up. So he had another movie to use this as a jumping off point from, but Martian Manhunter in this movie, but he's Tuxedo Mask like, well, first of all, he liked delivers all this random exposition, but then it's, it's that Tuxedo Mask meme where he's like," my work here is done" and everyone's like, "but you didn't do anything." He's like, AWAY!" So come at me Zack Snyder fanboys. Martian Manhunter in this movie is Tuxedo Mask.  Jessika: Yeah. Yeah. I didn't love it.  Mike: Let's compare the two. I think it was better than what we got in the theatrical version. There's no question about that.  Jessika: Yeah. Agreed. Agreed.  Mike: I think it was fine. I don't think it was good. It's not something that I'm going to rewatch. It's something that I'm certainly not going to show to any of my kids anytime soon.  Jessika: No.  Mike: It reminds me of this experience I had when I was working as a writer at a game studio where one of the CEOs wound up haranguing me in the lead designer for this digital card game we were working on because the latest expansion we had put out didn't feel epic enough. And that was the thing they kept pushing was they wanted something epic and people like that just don't understand that when your story is epic all the time, people get burnout and they stop caring about it. And the Snyder Cut was just, it was four hours of "epicness."  Jessika: Agreed. I, there was only ramping up. There were no dips or anything to take you on, you know, an interesting narrative journey. There just wasn't anything like that. It was, we are full steam ahead. We are headed in one direction. You are going there, whether you want to or not. It was, it felt very forced.  Mike: Yeah. And I think it's also really tainted because this thing only exists because a conspiracy theory morphed into a harassment campaign. And then AT&T and Warner Brothers wound up caving to it because they were trying to harness that movement and that's not up for debate. It probably won't be the last time we see something like this happen now that it's proven to be a successful formula. And that really fucking sucks. Yeah. Set a precedent for sure. Oh, and Young Justice, the cartoon, season three, does this whole storyline way better go watch that on HBO max. Jessika:  Oh, well there you go then. Shoot. I mean, not that I want to even touch this storyline, like after sitting through arguably eight hours of it in the last couple of days, since I watched the Whedon version twice. Mike: Why, why would you do that to yourself? Like...  Jessika: Because I just, I, I, you know what, here's the full transparency I fell asleep the first time I watched it. So I felt like I couldn't really accurately gauge. And you know what? I felt like I woke up pretty quickly. Like I was watching my brother and he was like, Hey, you know, so he'd like, if he noticed. He'd like, say something, if you see something, say something, my friends, but about people waking up in movies, I'm saying no. So I just, I decided I needed to, like, as I was watching the Snyder Cut, I just couldn't remember was wait a second. Was this in the movie? And I was live tweeting as I was doing it. And then I was like, I'm going to look real stupid if Robin Wright was in this other movie and I'm like saying she wasn't, you know, because I was about to like tweet at Robin Wright? God damn. I wish I had.  Mike: Hey man. She's like a Bay Area native isn't she?  Jessika: Probably. She's amazing.  Mike: Well, I know that she was when she was married to Sean Penn, they've lived right down the road from us. They were down on Fairfax or, or Greenbrae. Yeah, that's a, that's a marriage that I don't envy. Ugh, imagine marrying Sean blech.  Jessika: No, I can't even imagine watching one of his movies right now without pausing it several times.  Mike: Hmm. Do you have any final thoughts? I mean, we've kind of run the gamut, but you know, is there anything else that you want to talk about with the Snyder Cut? Jessika: Well, I would say that, you know, I'm glad I was able to pause it. I did pause it like seven times while I was needed to get like snacks and things. You know, this is not a movie. That I would casually watch. I would not just sit down and be like, Oh, I think I'll watch the Snyder Cut tonight. It is a full ass time commitment. I planned my day out.  Mike: Yeah.  Jessika: Yes. I got to get really baked and watch the Snyder Cut. Here we go. You know, I do want to say two more things in comparison about the films though, in both films, speaking of the male gaze, I could not even count the amount of times the camera was aimed so that it got a shot up Wonder Woman skirt in the bathroom. Mike: I remember the one sequence where she's jumping off that people mover and you see ass cheek.  Jessika: Oh yeah. And it happened several times in the Snyder Cut as well. It's not just that singular time. I would say make it a drinking game, but you may die of alcohol poisoning. So please don't do that.  Mike: Yeah. And I mean, like, you need a couple of cocktails just to get through this movie anyway. Jessika: Yeah.  Mike: Like you said, it's an undertaking.  Jessika: And the other thing is I kind of actually really enjoyed that Steppenwolf had someone to be subservient to when he was actually driven by something other than this ridiculous unknowing desire to get these boxes put together. For some reason that never were explained, you know? So at least it kind of made him feel like he was a kid who was trying to get the approval of his parents.  Mike: Oh yeah. Like during his 3D Zoom calls with, with, with the various members of Apokolips and his court. Yeah.  Jessika: Yeah. Definite Dotty issues. That is for sure.  God. I, I will  Mike: say that I actually appreciated that they gave a little bit more backstory on that because in the movie he shows up in the theatrical version he shows up, there's no explanation about anything. It doesn't make any sense of why is this dude here instead of Darkseid. And then they do the bit where they explained that he's an exile. I thought that was better handled. I do have to say though that no matter how ominous and deep and full of rage, your voice is, the phrase "anti-life" sounds goofy as fuck. And they say that a lot in a lot of deep threatening voices.  Jessika: Especially when it's set out of that funky ass CGI mouth, which they did not do a good job in that second version that was messed up. It was like watching the scorpion King. It was like, I felt like it was maybe not exactly on that level, but it definitely had flat face vibes. Mike: Yeah. Which, I mean, I love the scorpion- or the Mummy Returns, right? That's what you're talking about with, oh, it's a terrible movie, but like, oh, that whole sequence, but the Rock is another of my future ex-husbands and they did him dirty.  Jessika: It was disappointing for something and otherwise lovely movie. Mike:  It's a fun movie. It's dumb as shit. But I remember watching that when it came out in theaters, I saw that movie like three times in the theaters with my friends and the other CGI and the movie is actually really good. And then they have that sequence and I was 20 at the time. And you know, this was what, 2000, 2001, when it came out and all of us were sitting there and we're dumb kids, like just out of high school. And we're like, "that looks like ass." Like we're, we're not connoisseurs of CGI. At that point, we were just like, that looks terrible. That is so bad. It might violate the Geneva Convention. I don't know. I'm not, I'm not a lawyer, but that might be a hate crime.  Jessika: The top half of him swaying, like it, like it's drunk on his scorpion body. Oh, so bad. But the armor, I like the armor better in Snyder's version for Steppenwolf. I thought it was cooler. I liked the way that it kind of moved-  Mike: -it rippled and it had almost like a fur. It would like bristle, like fur, I thought that was cool. Yeah.  Now it's time for us to discuss our Brain Wrinkles, which are those things that are comics or comics adjacent that we just haven't been able to stop thinking about lately. So, Jess, how about you? What's wrinklin' your brain these days?  Jessika: Well, since I've been so DC forward in my life, these tasting notes of mine, I recently saw the Wonder Woman 84 -it was recently released- the Wonder Woman 84 gag reel. And I sent it in your and Sarah's direction. Cause I saw it and I was like, they have to see this. It was hysterical. Not only was it funny, but it showed a side of the characters that I think really is missing from that film. And don't get me wrong. There were absolutely moments of humor overall. It's more serious in nature, especially than the first one when you're looking at them in comparison. And I think that's why I'm such a Marvel fan girl, the Marvel characters to me, just, they seem to present a wider range of human emotions that make them feel more relatable than a lot of the characters in DCEU who just seemed like these kind of stoic, vanilla flavored, putting characters, you know, that you could kind of put them in a mold to be the other character and they might just fit. Mike: I mean, I love the fact that the Marvel movies are a lot of times really funny like Ant-Man and the Wasp is one of my favorite movies. It's arguably my favorite MCU movie. And it's just because it's so fun and funny. Like Scott Lang is a walking dad joke. That's his entire thing. That's a huge part of his character is that he is just, he is trying to be a good dad and he is not afraid to be goofy and weird.  Jessika: Oh, that's so wholesome. I'm getting to those films. I had to stop my, my Marvel universe jaunt in order to jump, you know, face first into the DC world. But I'm coming up for air friends. We are, we're going to get there. So what about you? What's what's been on the brain?  Mike: Um, so last week I wound up watching a TV show called The Watch and it's based on a series called the Discworld, which have you, have you read any of this? The Discworld books?  Jessika: I haven't, no.  Mike: The Discworld books are by a British author named Terry Pratchett. He co-wrote good omens if you saw that on Amazon.  Jessika: I've read that actually. Yeah.  Mike: Yeah. So he co-wrote that with Neil Gaiman, immensely talented, immensely funny writer. His book, he wrote, I think 40 or 41 of these books over about 30 plus years. And they are set in a fantasy world. That's like what Lord of the Rings would have been like if the industrial revolution had happened, where they all start, all the different races start congregating together and together in cities and there's vice and corruption. It's generally pretty funny. A lot of the books are set in the city called Ankh-Morpork where

Continuing the China theme, today we revisit my April 2019 interview with Clive Hamilton - it is still relevant today. Professor Hamilton has a new book out, Hidden Hand: Exposing How the Chinese Communist Party is Reshaping the World. I hope you enjoy the podcast, and please buy the book, and his original volume, Silent Invasion: China's Influence in Australia.

In this podcast, Doug Mahoney and Paul Slager, both former CTLA Presidents and members of the 2020 Connecticut General Assembly Task Force to Study Statutes of Limitations for Child Sexual Abuse Claims, are honored to host University of Pennsylvania Law School Professor Marci Hamilton, to discuss issues relating to the statutes of limitation reform for child sexual abuse cases. Professor Hamilton is a nationally renowned expert of on the subject of state statutes of limitation for survivors of child sexual abuse. She has testified before the legislatures of nearly every state, including Connecticut, on issues relating to statute of limitation reform for claims involving child sexual abuse. Here, she offers her thoughts about statute of limitation reform for child sex abuse claims generally, and specifically as it applies to Connecticut. Professor Hamilton serves as the Robert A. Fox Leadership Program Professor of Practice, and Fox Family Pavilion Resident Senior Fellow in the Program for Research on Religion at the University of Pennsylvania. She is also the founder, CEO, and Academic Director of CHILD  USA, www.childusa.org, a nonprofit academic think tank at the University of Pennsylvania dedicated to interdisciplinary, evidence-based research to prevent child abuse and neglect.

Welcome to the Year End Show for KPCW's Mountain Money . No matter which way you look at it, there is a lot we can look back on this year. For this episode, Mountain Money went back and looked for interesting stories that were covered this year. There are four highlighted in our Year End Show. ( 01:24)The first interview is with Professor Darrick Hamilton from Ohio State. Hamilton is the Executive Director of the Kirwin institute for the study of race and ethnicity. The discussion between Professor Hamilton, Roger Goldman and Alison Kuhlow looks at the differences of economic status and opportunties based on race. The conversation includes ideas of how these inequities can be eliminated. ( 19:36) Our second look back is an interview with trevor Milton, former CEO of Nikola Motor Company. Milton spoke with Doug Wells and Roger Goldman in April about the strides Nikola was making in the electric vehicle marketplace. ( 31:13) As the year went on, Nikola experienced a wave of difficulties.

Another great Christmas episode starring Superman. It's a very emotional issue as Kal-El shares with Lois the frustration he some times feels that he cant' help everyone, for all his incredible abilities he is still only one person and there are limits to his powers. We are also reminded that each of us has within us the power to help others in ways that even Superman may be unable to do. Ultimately, Superman is able to help some who are in need during the holiday season including some children who have the chance to meet Santa Claus in person thanks to the efforts of the Man of Steel and Professor Hamilton. 

Previously on The Omega Broadcast, With Bryan passed out, he wasn't able to hear the live broadcast from his mom to see she was still alive and well. In this episode we reach the "Mid-Season Finale" Bryan and Professor Hamilton find themselves in a unique situation. They meet new people, and get a new outlook on life in the wasteland. Meanwhile Bishop and The Missionaries find themselves in a bit of a sticky situation also. Lilly is on a search to find out about Christmas, and just who Santa really is. This episode has it all, so sit back and relax as we dive into Episode 7 At Time For Givin' A Time For Takin'. SUPPORT THE SHOW. Every aspect of this show is completely out of pocket! Sometimes licensing and equipment can be expensive, to ensure a top quality show. With our official Patreon, you'll have access to a few different tiers. Each one offers great bonuses and benefits for you the listener. https://www.patreon.com/TheOmegaBroadcast SPONSORS -AUDIOBOOKS.COM | Get 3 audiobooks FREE. This includes 2 VIP books. https://www.dpbolvw.net/click-100173810-11099382?sid=omega -LOOTCRATE | 15% off most crates or crate subscriptions. Use the link and code ROBOTSRADIO. https://www.kqzyfj.com/click-100173810-13902093?sid=omegab -GREENMAN GAMING | Get awesome discounts on games. https://www.tkqlhce.com/click-100173810-13764551?sid=omega PATREON SHOUT OUT! TRIZZLE PLAYS, CAPTAINREDBEARD, THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT OF THE SHOW Voice Talent: Bryan Burton ~ Boone ~ Bishop Voiced By Bryan Gwatney / Professor Hamilton ~ Blood Eagle Raider Voiced By Dr. Mark Hauswirth / Mr Harold Voiced By Brandon Ledford / Lilly Voiced By Reen Hearst. Website: https://theomegabroadcast.com Social Media: The Bearcycle Show Youtube Channel The Bearcycle Show Twitch Channel The Bearcycle Show Twitter This podcast is not endorsed by or affiliated with Bethesda Softworks or ZeniMax Media and does not reflect the views or opinions of either company or anyone officially involved in producing or managing Fallout 76. Fallout content and materials are trademarks and copyrights of Bethesda Softworks or its licensors. Fallout and Fallout 2 are Copyright © 1997, 1998 Interplay Productions, Irvine, California, USA. Fallout 3, Fallout: New Vegas, Fallout 4, and Fallout 76 are Copyright © 2008, 2010, 2015, 2018 Bethesda Softworks LLC, a ZeniMax Media company. Fallout, Prepare for the Future and related logos are trademarks or registered trademarks of Bethesda Softworks LLC in the U.S. All other content is copyright by the author. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/theomegabroadcast/support

Episode Notes: Kathryn Cambrea interviews STAC Professor Alyssa Hamilton, who loves writing and literature. Professor Hamilton not only teaches at STAC; she even graduated from the College in 2016. As a STAC student, Professor Hamilton studied English and Creative Writing and explored multiple opportunities connected to her aspirations, such as working on projects for the Ignite Symposium and submitting works for publication. She even edited the Voyager, STAC's literary magazine. From there, she earned her MFA degree in Creative Writing at Reinhardt University, and now, she teaches a combination of English and Creative Writing courses at her alma mater of STAC. In this interview, Professor Hamilton describes the work that she did as an undergraduate student, the impact that her professors have had on her, how graduate studies differ from undergraduate studies, advice she has for anyone interested in writing and publication, and so much more. Check out the STAC Career Development blog for advice, tips, resources, and #MySpartanSuccess features. Make sure to follow STAC's Office of Career Development on social media. Facebook: @staccareerdevelopment Twitter: @STACCareerDev Instagram: @staccareerdev Pinterest: STAC Career Snapchat: staccareerdev And of course, make sure that you join the “St. Thomas Aquinas College Career Development” group on LinkedIn to receive updates about job, internship, and networking opportunities. This podcast is powered by Pinecast.

Previously on The Omega Broadcast, Bryan lost so much blood that he passed out. A live transmission began to broadcast as he laid on the ground unconscious. In this episode we get to meet Bryan's mother, Professor Molly Burton. While working with her own agenda in The Capital Wasteland, an old distress relay beacon that she programed as an alarm begins to ring out. Realizing that relay was only designed to trigger when her son finds Professor Hamilton, she quickly jumps at the chance to send out a live transmission for her son to hear. SUPPORT THE SHOW. Every aspect of this show is completely out of pocket! Sometimes licensing and equipment can be expensive, to ensure a top quality show. With our official Patreon, you'll have access to a few different tiers. Each one offers great bonuses and benefits for you the listener. https://www.patreon.com/TheOmegaBroadcast SPONSORS -AUDIOBOOKS.COM | Get 3 audiobooks FREE. This includes 2 VIP books. https://www.dpbolvw.net/click-100173810-11099382?sid=omega -LOOTCRATE | 15% off most crates or crate subscriptions. Use the link and code ROBOTSRADIO. https://www.kqzyfj.com/click-100173810-13902093?sid=omegab -GREENMAN GAMING | Get awesome discounts on games. https://www.tkqlhce.com/click-100173810-13764551?sid=omega PATREON SHOUT OUT! TRIZZLE PLAYS, CAPTAINREDBEARD, THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT OF THE SHOW Voice Talent: Molly Burton Voiced By Annie Gwatney Website: https://theomegabroadcast.com Social Media: The Bearcycle Show Youtube Channel The Bearcycle Show Twitch Channel The Bearcycle Show Twitter This podcast is not endorsed by or affiliated with Bethesda Softworks or ZeniMax Media and does not reflect the views or opinions of either company or anyone officially involved in producing or managing Fallout 76. Fallout content and materials are trademarks and copyrights of Bethesda Softworks or its licensors. Fallout and Fallout 2 are Copyright © 1997, 1998 Interplay Productions, Irvine, California, USA. Fallout 3, Fallout: New Vegas, Fallout 4, and Fallout 76 are Copyright © 2008, 2010, 2015, 2018 Bethesda Softworks LLC, a ZeniMax Media company. Fallout, Prepare for the Future and related logos are trademarks or registered trademarks of Bethesda Softworks LLC in the U.S. All other content is copyright by the author. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/theomegabroadcast/support

This week, the podcast revisits a topic I wrote about for The New York Times last month - race and retirement. I’ve written before about how the inequities people of color experience during their working lives spill over into retirement. But during this time of racial reckoning, I wanted to take a deeper dive into the topic.For the Times story, I took special care to seek out the voices of Black Americans who also are expert on this topic. That’s how I found my way to economist Darrick Hamilton. Professor Hamilton is one of the nation’s leading voices on the causes and consequences of racial and ethnic economic disparities. He recently left Ohio State University to rejoin The New School in New York City, where he is teaching and starting up a new Institute for the Study of Race, Stratification and Political Economy.Darrick is a leading proponent of one of the most creative ideas for addressing the racial wealth gap - “baby bonds.” The idea is to provide every American child with a government-funded trust account at birth, starting with a $1,000 contribution. Kids born into lower-wealth families would receive more contributions over time, and the accounts would benefit from compound interest growth. The premise is that much of the wealth in the U.S. is transferred from generation to generation, and there’s a powerful compound effect that starts with our legacy of racist laws and policies and ends with today’s white households able to access far more capital for wealth-building activities - attending college, buying a home or starting a business. Baby bonds could serve as a proactive remedy for that injustice, and in many cases could impact the wealth available at retirement for people of color. In the Times story, I outline the basic numbers on race and retirement. They may not be surprising, but they certainly are appalling. In 2016, the typical Black household approaching retirement had 46 percent of the retirement wealth of the typical white household. For a Latino family, it was 49 percent. Two-thirds of single black retirees have incomes too low to meet basic living expenses. And that was before the pandemic. Since COVID19 struck, unemployment rates for older Black and Latino workers have been much higher than for their white counterparts. And mounting evidence suggestions that millions are being forced into premature retirement. That’s going to translate into sharp cuts in Social Security income and savings, and expensive disruptions in health insurance.The baby bonds concept has caught on in the Democratic party - Senator Cory Booker advocated for it during his presidential campaign and he has sponsored baby bond legislation in the Senate. The idea also has found its way into the Biden presidential campaign.Listen to my conversation with Darrick Hamilton by clicking on the player icon at the top of the newsletter. The podcast also can be found on Apple Podcasts, Spotify and Stitcher.Not a subscriber yet? Take advantage of a special offerSign up now for the free or subscriber edition of the newsletter, and I’ll email a copy of my latest retirement guide to you. This one looks at dealing with the Social Security Administration during the COVID19 crisis. Customer service at the Social Security Administration has changed during the coronavirus crisis - the agency closed its network of more than 1,200 field offices to the public in March. Just a reminder- subscribers, have access to the entire series of guides at any time. Click on the little green button to subscribe, or go here to learn more.Will FICA revenue deferral open the door to privatization of Social Security? Here’s how it could play outI've been writing over the summer about the threat posed to Social Security by President Trump’s threat to continue deferring FICA tax collections should he win reelection. This has been a chaotic episode, with shifting indications from the White House on how a FICA revenue gap might be plugged. And most employers seem to be ignoring the deferral altogether as not worth the bother, and are continuing to collect FICA. Even the U.S. Chamber of Commerce - a staunch Trump ally - has expressed disapproval. Trump signed a presidential memorandum in August ordering the deferral through year-end of FICA revenue, and he also said that he would push for termination altogether of the tax if he wins a second term. It’s not at all clear that he could push this through Congress, but some experts think that the IRS code might permit him to defer FICA collections for an additional year.If we do stop funding Social Security through FICA, just about anything can happen. The concept of an earned benefit can go out the window pretty quick, and people will start thinking of Social Security as welfare. In the political back and forth over FICA, the Trump administration has stated that any deferred FICA revenue would be replaced by general revenue funds. But that suggests a transfer of more than $1 trillion annually - a tall order for a Congress already grappling with the demands of economic support for a flagging economy. It also would mark a turning point in Social Security’s funding structure. The program has always been funded mainly by FICA (it also receives relatively small amounts of revenue from taxes on benefits and interest on trust fund bonds.). Self-funding has been one of the program’s political strengths, as it gives workers and beneficiaries a sense of ownership - as per this oft-quoted 1941 quip from President Franklin Roosevelt:“We put those payroll contributions there so as to give the contributors a legal, moral, and political right to collect their pensions and their unemployment benefits. With those taxes in there, no damn politician can ever scrap my social security program. Those taxes aren’t a matter of economics, they’re straight politics.”Some Republicans have not given up on the dream of converting Social Security into a system of personal saving accounts - an anchoring idea of the reforms proposed by President George W. Bush. The plan was a political and policy flop, but some on the right continue to push it, including the Heritage Foundation.If you doubt this, check out this recent op-ed on FICA by Andrew Biggs of the American Enterprise Institute (emphasis added at the conclusion of this passage):. . . President Trump made clear in an Aug. 12 news conference that his real goal is to replace the Social Security payroll tax with revenues drawn from the general tax fund, the vast majority of which is income taxes. This idea faces both practical and philosophical hurdles, but could help the political parties finally come together to fix Social Security. The first problem with funding Social Security via income taxes is obvious: the federal budget is already in deficit, which means there isn’t room to fund Social Security with general revenues without significantly cutting other programs or raising income taxes. And that tax increase wouldn’t be tiny. In 2019, the federal government collected about $1.7 trillion in individual income taxes, versus nearly $1 trillion in Social Security payroll taxes. Even if the President’s plan would replace only the employees’ 6.2% payroll tax, that would mean about an additional $500 billion in general tax revenues needed. Moreover, funding Social Security with income taxes is also contrary to the program’s history, in which benefit were funded with a flatrate tax that applied to all earnings up to a maximum, which is currently $137,700 per year. The payroll tax contributed to the view that Social Security is an “earned benefit” rather than a welfare plan.But most Democrats have already given up on the idea of truly earned benefits, since their Social Security proposals focus on lifting the payroll tax cap and making the rich carry more of the load.Income-tax financing would simply take that idea in a more progressive direction. While about 15% of earnings accrue to employees with salaries above the $137,700 payroll tax ceiling, almost half of total income taxes are paid by households with incomes above that level. More than one-third of income taxes are paid by the top 1% alone.But what is in it for Republicans? The answer is that an income-tax-financed safety retirement net need not be nearly as expensive as the current Social Security program. For instance, Australia’s Age Pension costs around one-fifth of what Social Security does, because it merely supplements households’ own savings to ensure a minimum standard of living in retirement. Canada and New Zealand also use income tax-financed programs to provide a strong base of retirement income.For this idea to work, though, the U.S. would need to follow Australia’s lead by signing up every worker for a retirement savings account with automatic contributions. Those contributions could be funded using the payroll taxes that no longer would be needed to fund Social Security. Biggs was a deputy commissioner of Social Security during the Bush administration and he was involved in the aforementioned failed effort to convert Social Security into a system of private savings accounts. He hasn’t talked much about privatization in recent years - until now, that is:Once transitioned into place — which admittedly would take years — the result would be higher private savings, particularly for lower-income households, which reduces wealth inequality and boosts the economy. And while income taxes would be higher, total government spending on Social Security would be lower.To be clear, this is my plan, not President Trump’s. But for income tax-funding of Social Security to work, for it to overcome 30 years of Congressional inaction on Social Security, it needs to think creatively and offer something to both sides. Because the traditional menu of reforms — payroll tax rate increases, higher retirement ages, lower cost-of-living adjustments and so forth — haven’t motivated Congress to action. Joe Biden has been hammering Trump on the FICA issue in television ads running in swing states. We are living in a very weird world, indeed, when the chief actuary of Social Security is quoted in a political ad. This is a public episode. Get access to private episodes at retirementrevised.substack.com/subscribe

This week we speak with Professor Robert Hamilton of University of Toronto about a recent potentially groundbreaking work on a novel approach to the diagnosis of Brugada syndrome using an immunological test. How accurate is this test for diagnosis of this often elusive syndrome? Is autoimmunity the cause of disease or are the antibodies just a marker of disease. What's the latest on Professor Hamilton's work on testing for ARVC (reviewed previously in episode 43)? Dr. Hamilton provides us with lots of answers this week. For those interested in collaborating in his studies, his email and that of his research coordinator are in the podcast this week. doi: 10.1093/eurheartj/ehaa383

This week we speak with Professor Robert Hamilton of University of Toronto about a recent potentially groundbreaking work on a novel approach to the diagnosis of Brugada syndrome using an immunological test. How accurate is this test for diagnosis of this often elusive syndrome? Is autoimmunity the cause of disease or are the antibodies just a marker of disease. What's the latest on Professor Hamilton's work on testing for ARVC (reviewed previously in episode 43)? Dr. Hamilton provides us with lots of answers this week. For those interested in collaborating in his studies, his email and that of his research coordinator are in the podcast this week. doi: 10.1093/eurheartj/ehaa383

Racism. Today's protests. Rebellions. The economy. Inequality. Structural change. Hope. We speak to the brilliant Professor Darrick Hamilton about all of this. He’s an “intellectual giant” behind thinking on the racial wealth gap and inequality, who's bold policy ideas have been championed by a number of US political figures.We speak to Professor Hamilton about what is happening in the United States right now, and the way in which coronavirus has disproportionately impacted black communities. This podcast episode is above all about solidarity with black communities in the United States, in the face of structural racism and violence. We discuss:Is there something racist in the design of our current economic model?How do race and class interact?How was the progress of the new deal and the civil rights movement impeded?How do we ensure our economy truly delivers racial and economic justice?Is there any hope?A fascinating, moving and truly unforgettable conversation that we're honored to have with Darrick Hamilton, who is professor of public policy, economics, sociology, and African American studies at Ohio State University and the executive director of the Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity. This is the latest part of the EQUALS #InequalityVirus mini-series. Do listen, subscribe and share it with your friends and family. And follow us on @equalshope on Twitter.

This week on Superman: The Animated Podcast, I talk about S02E13 – Monkey Fun. Curt Geda returns as the director, writers for the episode are Paul Dini, Bob Goodman, Alan Burnett, Hilary Bader and Stan Berkowitz. In this episode - A monkey is found floating in space, returning from years of suspended animation in his ship. It turns out the monkey, named Titano, was a beloved companion of Lois during her childhood. In space, Titano encountered a radioactive asteroid, causing him to mutate on Earth and become big trouble for Superman and Metropolis. The episode stars Tim Daly as Superman/Clark Kent, Dana Delany as Lois Lane, David Kauffman as Jimmy Olsen, Victor Brandt as Professor Hamilton, Joanna Cassidy as Maggie Sawyer, Joseph Bologna as Dan Turpin, Brad Garrett as Bibbo, Dean Jones as Col. Sam Lane, Mae Whitman as Young Lois and Aria Noelle Curzon as Lucy Lane. You can find the podcast on all of your favourite podcatchers. You can find us on Social Media:Facebook: www.facebook.com/themword81 Twitter: www.twitter.com/SupAnimatedPod Twitter: www.twitter.com/themword81 Website: www.themword81.com Email: themword81@yahoo.com  

This week on Superman: The Animated Podcast, I talk about S02E12 – Brave New Metropolis. Curt Geda returns as the director, writers for the episode are Paul Dini, Bob Goodman, Alan Burnett, Hilary Bader and Stan Berkowitz. In this episode - Lois is thrown into a parallel universe of Metropolis where Luthor and Superman work together and rule as dictators. In this world, the alternate Lois Lane was killed and her death had traumatized Superman into joining forces with Lex to create a police state of control. When Lois learns how much Superman had cared for her, she desperately seeks a way back home so she can share her true feelings for him as well. The episode stars Tim Daly as Superman/Clark Kent, Dana Delany as Lois Lane, Clancy Brown as Lex Luthor, David Kauffman as Jimmy Olsen, Victor Brandt as Professor Hamilton, Lisa Edelstein sa Mercy Graves, Lauren Tom as Angela Chen and Joseph Bologna as Dan Turpin You can find the podcast on all of your favourite podcatchers. You can find us on Social Media:Facebook: www.facebook.com/themword81 Twitter: www.twitter.com/SupAnimatedPod Twitter: www.twitter.com/themword81 Website: www.themword81.com Email: themword81@yahoo.com  

This week on Superman: The Animated Podcast, I talk about S02E11 – Solar Power. Kazuhide Tomonaga returns as the director, writers for the episode are Paul Dini, Bob Goodman, Alan Burnett, Hilary Bader and Stan Berkowitz. In this episode - Lois' stalker Edward Lytener returns as Luminus to seek revenge against Superman, with a way to depower him by tinting the sunlight red to match the red Kryptonian sun. He ties up and gags Jimmy and Lois and uses them as bait for Superman, who finally saves them. The episode stars Tim Daly as Superman/Clark Kent, Dana Delany as Lois Lane, Clancy Brown as Lex Luthor, David Kauffman as Jimmy Olsen, Victor Brandt as Professor Hamilton and Robert Hays as Edward Lytener/Luminus. You can find the podcast on all of your favourite podcatchers. You can find us on Social Media:Facebook: www.facebook.com/themword81 Twitter: www.twitter.com/SupAnimatedPod Twitter: www.twitter.com/themword81 Website: www.themword81.com Email: themword81@yahoo.com  

(0.5 General California MCLE)  The First Amendment protects religious beliefs and conduct, but the right to free exercise of religion is not absolute. What happens when religious conduct endangers the health or well-being of a child? When can the government step in to protect children's interests or mandate vaccination and medical treatment for children? Professor Hamilton answers these questions and more in her analysis of religious freedom laws and exemptions. Professor Marci Hamilton holds the Paul R. Verkuil Chair in Public Law at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, Yeshiva University, where she teaches courses on constitutional law, the First Amendment, and religion and the law.  She has authored numerous law journal articles and several books, including God vs. the Gavel: The Perils of Extreme Religious Liberty and Justice Denied: What America Must Do to Protect Its Children.  She clerked for Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor. For more information about obtaining MCLE credit for this interview, visit https://www.talksonlaw.com/lv/mcle-podcastor https://www.californiamclepodcast.com/.

This week on Superman: The Animated Podcast, I talk about S02E02 – Blasts from the Past: Part II. Dan Riba as the director, writers for the episode are Paul Dini, Bob Goodman, Alan Burnett, Hilary Bader and Stan Berkowitz. In this episode - When the Phantom Zone prisoner, Mala, releases Jax-Ur as well to conquer Earth, Superman must defeat them despite that fact that they smashed the projector.The episode stars Tim Daly as Superman/Clark Kent, Dana Delany as Lois Lane, Leslie Easterbrook as Mala, Corey Burton as Brainiac, Victor Brandt as Professor Hamilton, Ron Perlman as Jax-Ur, George Dzundza as Perry White, Ron Glass as News Anchorman and Keri Tombazian as Femaile Correspondent. You can find the podcast on Podbean, Apple podcasts, Google podcasts, the Podcast app, Castbox, iHeartradio now on Spotify.You can find us on Social Media:Facebook: www.facebook.com/themword81 Twitter: www.twitter.com/SupAnimatedPod Twitter: www.twitter.com/themword81 Website: www.themword81.com Email: themword81@yahoo.com  

This week on Superman: The Animated Podcast, I talk about S02E01 – Blasts from the Past: Part I. Dan Riba as the director, writers for the episode are Paul Dini, Bob Goodman, Alan Burnett, Hilary Bader and Stan Berkowitz. In this episode - Upon discovery of the Phantom Zone projector in his ship, Superman makes contact with and releases a prisoner whose sentence is completed.The episode stars Tim Daly as Superman/Clark Kent, Dana Delany as Lois Lane, Leslie Easterbrook as Mala, Clancy Brown as Lex Luthor, Lauren Tom as Angela Chen, Corey Burton as Brainiac, Victor Brandt as Professor Hamilton, Ron Perlman as Jax-Ur and Jim Cummings as Phantom Zone Beast. You can find the podcast on Podbean, Apple podcasts, Google podcasts, the Podcast app, Castbox, iHeartradio now on Spotify.You can find us on Social Media:Facebook: www.facebook.com/themword81 Twitter: www.twitter.com/SupAnimatedPod Twitter: www.twitter.com/themword81 Website: www.themword81.com Email: themword81@yahoo.com  

This week on Superman: The Animated Podcast, I talk about S01E09 – The Main Man: Part I. Dan Riba as the director, writers for the episode are Paul Dini, Bob Goodman, Alan Burnett, Hilary Bader and Stan Berkowitz. In this episode - Superman squares off against the moronic superpowerful space-biker mercenary, Lobo, who has a contract on the superhero.The episode stars Tim Daly as Superman/Clark Kent, Dana Delany as Lois Lane, Brad Garrett as Lobo, Clancy Brown as Lex Luthor, Lauren Tom as Angela Chen, Victor Brandt as Professor Hamilton, Sherman Howard as Preserver, David L. Lander as Sqweek and Don Harvey as Gnaww. You can find the podcast on Podbean, Apple podcasts, Google podcasts, the Podcast app, Castbox, iHeartradio now on Spotify.You can find us on Social Media:Facebook: www.facebook.com/themword81Twitter: www.twitter.com/SupAnimatedPodTwitter: www.twitter.com/themword81Website: www.themword81.comEmail: themword81@yahoo.com

Hearing President Trump tell it, you’d be forgiven for thinking that the U.S. economy is in a boom like we’ve never before witnessed. But that is not the case, says professor Darrick Hamilton, executive director of the Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity at The Ohio State University. Professor Hamilton joined the pod this week to give us the real picture on the current state of the economy; the meaning behind the numbers; and why current economic measures are not truly indicative of the inequality that many Americans are feeling. Later, professor Hamilton discusses reparations and what they might actually look like in practice. Note: this episode contains explicit language

This week on Superman: The Animated Podcast, I talk about S01E08 – Stolen Memories. Curt Geda as the director, writers for the episode are Rich Fogel, Paul Dini, Bob Goodman, Alan Burnett, Hilary Bader and Stan Berkowitz. In this episode - Brainiac, once Krypton's all-knowing planetary computer, comes to Earth as part of his information-gathering trek across the galaxy. But, as Superman discovers, Brainiac's intent after gathering the world's knowledge is to destroy the Earth.The episode stars Tim Daly as Superman/Clark Kent, Dana Delany as Lois Lane, Clancy Brown as Lex Luthor, Christopher McDonald as Jor-El, David Kauffman as Jimmy Olsen, Lauren Tom as Angela Chen, Corey Burton as Brainiac, Victor Brandt as Professor Hamilton and Townsend Coleman as Programmer. You can find the podcast on Podbean, Apple podcasts, Google podcasts, the Podcast app, Castbox, iHeartradio now on Spotify.You can find us on Social Media:Facebook: www.facebook.com/themword81 Twitter: www.twitter.com/SupAnimatedPod Twitter: www.twitter.com/themword81 Website: www.themword81.com Email: themword81@yahoo.com  

The reality and repercussions of racial oppression are mostly absent from political discourse in the US. Steve and his guest Darrick Hamilton address it head-on in this thoughtful and detailed 2018 discussion of the range of solutions.   Hamilton, professor of policy, economics and sociology at OSU, explains why reparations cannot be simply about handing out cash. The first requirement is a detailed acknowledgment of the harm done, which must be specific to the victimized group. When talking of reparations to Native Americans, for example, that unique history of oppression must be spelled out.   Redress in the form of individual payments could have unintended consequences, exacerbating class divisions, so some form of ownership might be included. The nation needs a Marshall plan for building black institutions as a further means of redistribution and reparations.   A federal job guarantee, while separate from reparations, is also crucial for mitigating inequality. It’s not only an economic benefit, but a psychological one, which doesn’t get emphasized enough in the debate.   Finally, Professor Hamilton explains the principles of baby bonds, which address the mechanism by which Americans build wealth. Each child would be given a trust fund at birth, calibrated to the family’s wealth. The concept goes back to Thomas Paine, who spoke of a “stakeholder society.”   Darrick Hamilton is Executive Director of the Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity, Professor in the Glenn College for Public Affairs, and Professor, Departments of Economics and Sociology, College of Arts and Sciences (by courtesy) at The Ohio State University.  http://kirwaninstitute.osu.edu/about/#staff   https://www.jacobinmag.com/2017/02/federal-job-guarantee-universal-basic-income-investment-jobs-unemployment/   https://theconversation.com/why-wealth-equality-remains-out-of-reach-for-black-americans-111483   https://www.ted.com/talks/darrick_hamilton_how_baby_bonds_could_help_close_the_wealth_gap?language=en   https://bidenforum.org/racial-equality-is-economic-equality-64fca8e8bfc0

This week on Superman: The Animated Podcast, I talk about S01E06 – Feeding Time. Curt Geda as the director, writers for the episode are Paul Dini, Bob Goodman, Alan Burnett, Hilary Bader and Stan Berkowitz. In this episode - A lowly janitor is transformed into the Parasite, a superhuman capable of draining and harnessing the energy, powers, and memories of any living being...including Superman.The episode stars Tim Daly as Superman/Clark Kent, Dana Delany as Lois Lane, George Dzundza as Perry White, David Kauffman as Jimmy Olsen, Lauren Tom as Angela Chen, Victor Brandt as Professor Hamilton, Philip Maurice Hayes as Guard, Brion James as The Parasite/Rudy Jones, Robert Patrick as LeBeau, Tasia Valenza as Policewoman and Mel Winkler as Commissioner Henderson. You can find the podcast on Podbean, Apple podcasts, Google podcasts, the Podcast app, Castbox, iHeartradio now on Spotify. You can find us on Social Media:Facebook: www.facebook.com/themword81 Twitter: www.twitter.com/SupAnimatedPod Twitter: www.twitter.com/themword81 Website: www.themword81.com Email: themword81@yahoo.com  

This week on Superman: The Animated Podcast, I talk about S01E05 – A Little Piece of Home. Toshihiko Masuda as the director, writers for the episode are Paul Dini, Bob Goodman, Alan Burnett, Hilary Bader and Stan Berkowitz. In this episode - Lex Luthor learns that Superman is vulnerable to kryptonite and attempts to use it to kill Superman.The episode stars Tim Daly as Superman/Clark Kent, Dana Delany as Lois Lane, Clancy Brown as Lex Luthor, John Runinstein as Peterson, John Garry as Hanes, Brad Garrett as Bibbi/Neato Coralli, Thomas F. Wilson as Joey, Scott Valentine as Sam Coralli, Lisa Edelstein as Mercy Graves, Victor Brandt as Professor Hamilton, Tress MacNeille as Tour Guide/Old Woman/Waitress and Yuji Okumoto as Security Guard. You can find the podcast on Podbean, Apple podcasts, Google podcasts, the Podcast app, Castbox, iHeartradio now on Spotify. You can find us on Social Media:Facebook: www.facebook.com/themword81 Twitter: www.twitter.com/SupAnimatedPod Twitter: www.twitter.com/themword81 Website: www.themword81.com Email: themword81@yahoo.com  

On this episode of The Seneca Scene, we welcome Professor Melanie Conroy-Goldman Hamilton. Professor Hamilton has served as chair to the English department and helped create the Trias program. Talking about creative writing on campus, Professor Hamilton showcases the various outlets and resources for writers. ​ Listen to the full episode below and be sure to subscribe to The Seneca Scene on iTunes and on Spotify to …

Professor Jon Emery talks with Professor Willie Hamilton, co-chair of CanTest and a GP and lead of the DISCOVERY group in Exeter, Willie is also clinical lead for the 2015 NICE guidance, as well as a member of the Department of Health’s Policy Research Unit for cancer awareness, screening and early diagnosis. Both are part of CanTest – a five year programme of funding from Cancer Research UK, where international primary care cancer researchers investigate ways of developing and implementing new and improved cancer diagnostic tests into GP surgeries. Professor Hamilton discusses recently published Early detection of multiple myeloma in primary care using blood tests: a case–control study in primary care. This UK based, matched case-control study examined the combined predictive value of presenting symptoms and blood tests commonly used in primary care in order to find which are useful in suggesting/excluding a diagnosis of multiple myeloma. Using data from over 2,700 cases and more than 12,000 controls, the study found that plasma viscosity (PV) and ESR were better than C-reactive protein for ruling in/out myeloma. Show notes available here http://pc4tg.com.au/research-round-up-december-2018-willie-hamilton/

Join us for a special 40-minute lecture with Stanford University Journalism Program Director, James T. Hamilton. This is an audio recording of a lecture. The lecturer used visual tools that could not be captured in the audio recording. Changes in media markets have put local investigative reporting particularly at risk. But new combinations of data and algorithms may make it easier for journalists to discover and tell the stories that hold institutions accountable. Based on his book Democracy’s Detectives: The Economics of Investigative Journalism, in this lecture Professor Hamilton explores how the future of accountability reporting will involve stories by, through, and about algorithms. Dr. James Hamilton is the Hearst Professor of Communication, Director of the Journalism Program, and Director of Undergraduate Studies in Communication at Stanford University. Prior to joining the Stanford faculty, Hamilton taught at Duke University’s Sanford School of Public Policy, where he directed the De Witt Wallace Center for Media and Democracy. He earned a BA in Economics and Government (summa cum laude) and PhD in Economics from Harvard University.

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In this special episode of the Necronomicast, we once again venture down "Brian's Dark Alley" for an interview with an Omaha institution, Professor Howard Hamilton.  At 81 years young, he is the tour guide of the Omaha Halloween Cemetery Tour.  Even though you might reside in an area outside of Omaha, Nebraska, Professor Hamilton is an individual that will capture your imagination.  His exhaustive investigations of Omaha and its cemeteries provide unique insight into the dark history of the River City.  You'll hear about his fascination with cemeteries that began as a youth who yearned to be a funeral director all the way through his post retirement career as Omaha's congenial gentleman of the macabre.  Of course, we have to chat about axe murders too!  That's what we do in the Midwest!

Tonight's special guest is Marci A. Hamilton from NY, a returning NAASCA family member, an attorney and professor who's a national leader for legislative reform -- particularly Statute of Limitations reform -- through her website (www.sol-reform.com) -- for the protection of children from sex abuse. She's also the author of "Justice Denied: What America Must Do To Protect Its Children" and "God vs the Gavel: The Perils of Extreme Religious Liberty." Professor Hamilton has served as constitutional and federal law counsel in many important clergy sex abuse and religious land use cases in state and federal courts, and has testified before numerous state legislatures regarding elimination of the statutes of limitations for childhood sex abuse. She is frequently asked to advise Congress. She is an author, lecturer, and advocate on the protection of the vulnerable from religious institutions. During 2012, she was honored as one of Pennsylvania's Women of the Year, and received the National Crime Victim Bar Association's Frank Carrington Champion of Civil Justice Award. Professor Hamilton is the co-editor of "Fundamentalism, Politics and the Law" (2011). She is currently a bi-monthly columnist for www.justia.com and was a bi-monthly columnist for www.findlaw.com for ten years.

Tonight's special guest is Marci A. Hamilton from NY, an attorney who's leading the battle to eliminate the Statute of Limitations for issues of child abuse. Professor Hamilton has served as constitutional and federal law counsel in many important clergy sex abuse and religious land use cases in state and federal courts, and has testified before numerous state legislatures regarding elimination of the statutes of limitations for childhood sex abuse. She is frequently asked to advise Congress. She is an author, lecturer, and advocate on the protection of the vulnerable from religious institutions. She is also a national leader for legislative reform -- particularly Statute of Limitations reform through her website www.sol-reform.com -- for the protection of children from sex abuse. During 2012, she was honored as one of Pennsylvania's Women of the Year, and received the National Crime Victim Bar Association's Frank Carrington Champion of Civil Justice Award. Professor Hamilton is the author of "Justice Denied: What America Must Do Tp Protect Its Children" (2012); "God VS. the Gavel: Religion and the Rule of Law" (2005, 2007); and the co-editor of "Fundamentalism, Politics and the Law" (2011). She is currently a bi-monthly columnist for www.justia.com and was a bi-monthly columnist for www.findlaw.com for ten years.

Professor Clive Hamilton delivers a critique of the consequentialist approach to the ethics of geoengineering, the approach that deploys assessment of costs and benefits in a risk framework to justify climatic intervention. Professor Hamilton argues that there is a strong case for preferring the natural, and that the unique and highly threatening character of global warming renders the standard approach to the ethics of climate change unsustainable. Moreover, the unstated metaphysical assumption of conventional ethical, economic and policy thinking - modernity's idea of the autonomous human subject analysing and acting on an inert external world - is the basis for the kind of "technological thinking" that lies at the heart of the climate crisis. Technological thinking both projects a systems framework onto the natural world and frames it as a catalogue of resources for the benefit of humans. Recent discoveries by Earth system science itself - the arrival of the Anthropocene, the prevalence of non-linearities, and the deep complexity of the earth's processes - hint at the inborn flaws in this kind of thinking. The grip of technological thinking explains why it has been so difficult for us to heed the warnings of climate science and why the idea of using technology to take control of the earth's atmosphere is immediately appealing. Professor Clive Hamilton is a Visiting Academic, Department of Philosophy, and Senior Visiting Research Associate, Oxford University Centre for the Environment. He is Professor of Public Ethics at the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics (CAPPE) and holds the newly created Vice-Chancellor's Chair at Charles Sturt University, Australia. He was the Founder and for 14 years the Executive Director of The Australia Institute, a public interest think tank. He is well known in Australia as a public intellectual and for his contributions to public policy debate. His extensive publications include writings on climate change policy, overconsumption, welfare policy and the effects of commercialisation. Recent publications include The Freedom Paradox: Towards a post-secular ethics and Requiem for a Species: Why we resist the truth about climate change.

On this edition of The ESI Report, host Michele Lange, Attorney and Director of Legal Technologies at Kroll Ontrack, starts off the show by getting the Buzz from William Hamilton, a partner at Holland and Knight and adjunct professor at the University of Florida. Professor Hamilton is joined by students, Matt Detzel and Adam Losey, as they talk about benefits of teaching E-Discovery. In the Bits & Bytes legal analysis segment, Kelly Kubacki, Kroll Ontrack's Legal Correspondent, gives us the ins and outs of the White House E-Mail Scandal. And do you want to know more about trial consulting? Our Spotlight segment focuses on the life of a trial consultant, as Dan Wolfe discusses his experiences as Senior Trial Consultant and Director of Trial Consulting for TrialGraphix.