Podcasts about quoting

Irish Universities Association is quoting a funding gap of €250m in real terms. They say the continuation of this runs the risk of eroding the capacity, quality and competitiveness of our third-level sector”. The Director General, Paul Johnston discuss this further with Susan HayesCulleton.

Suppliers are under pressure to quote at China speed, and most can't stand behind the numbers they're sending. The average supplier now handles around 800 RFQs a year, up from 495 in 2002, with the same spreadsheets, email chains, and handful of veterans who know where the rates live. Speed is what everyone's demanding, and accuracy is where the margin's won or lost.Jan and Tom Roberts welcome back Ted Mabley, Director at UHY Consulting, to discuss his new white paper, Closing the Cost Execution Gap. It builds on his earlier study with the Center for Automotive Research and comes out as OEMs, GM among them, press suppliers to show where every number comes from.The gap shows up after the PO. A program quoted at a 10% margin launches at 5 or 6, as engineering changes and OEM productivity demands chip away at a quote that captured one engineering level at one moment. Sending the plant manager to sales to win the margin back won't work; the OEMs are too sophisticated for that.Ted's fix starts upstream, with skilled cost engineers in the room as the bill of materials takes shape, and it runs through the data. Quote history sits in SharePoint, on laptops, and across ERP systems inherited through acquisitions, and connecting it is where he sees AI's biggest opportunity. Jan adds a pointed challenge: total acquisition cost won't drive decisions while purchasing teams are still bonused on PPV.This conversation challenges supplier leaders to stop treating quoting as paperwork. Ted's first move is deliberately small: pick one high-volume RFQ or VAVE workflow and redesign it end-to-end. The suppliers who fix one workflow now will have a template for the rest, and a cost story they can defend when the OEM asks where the number came from.Themes Discussed in This EpisodeWhy speed without cost accuracy is a liabilityEmbedding cost engineering upstream at the BOMConnecting fragmented quote, cost, and plant dataScaling the RFQ process with automation and AITotal landed cost vs piece priceWhy PPV block the total acquisition cost thinkingOEM-specific playbooks and the case for a common RFQ formatStarting with one high-volume RFQ or VAVE workflowThis podcast is powered by QAD RedZone.Featured GuestName: Ted Mabley Title: Director at UHY Consulting About: Edward "Ted" Mabley has over 15 years of experience optimizing sales and business development operations, providing customer-specific solutions catering to a wide array of industries on a global scale. He works with OEMs, tier-one suppliers, and other manufacturing companies to create transparency in their cost process and develop vendor management programs to address relevant KPIs. His experience includes active cost management in accordance with enterprise product costing procedures, as well as developing strategic business roadmaps, product visions, and sales strategies. Connect: LinkedInAbout Your HostsJan GriffithsJan is the host and producer of the Auto Supply Chain Champions Podcast and The Automotive Leaders Podcast. A former automotive manufacturing and supply chain executive, Jan is recognized as a Champion for Culture Change in the automotive industry. She brings direct, grounded conversations to leaders navigating execution, disruption, and transformation across the global automotive ecosystem.Tom Roberts (Co-host)Tom is Co-host of the Auto Supply Chain Champions Podcast and Vice President of Strategic Industry Development at QAD. He works closely with automotive and industrial manufacturers to close the gap between insight and execution, helping leaders move from visibility to systems of action that drive real operational outcomes.Mentioned in this EpisodeClosing the Cost Execution Gap, UHY white paperAutomotive Suppliers and the Revenue Acquisition Process – Then and Now (CAR/UHY, 2025)Episode Highlights[00:03:11] Twenty Years, More Complexity: Ted's survey of tier one suppliers and OEMs revisits a 2002 study and finds RFQs moving faster, growing more complex, and landing on fewer people with the skills to get them right.[00:05:29] The Quote Is a Snapshot: A program quoted at 10% margin that launches at 5 or 6 shows how engineering changes and OEM productivity demands erode cost after the PO is issued.[00:07:05] Cost Engineering Starts at the BOM: China speed means skilled cost engineers have to join while the bill of material and vehicle requirements are still being defined, not after.[00:08:00] The Skills Gap Behind the Quote: Ted points to JCI's former cost engineering organization as a model for developing talent, a discipline that's largely been replaced by job postings for "four cost engineers."[00:09:00] AI's Biggest Play Is the Data: With quote history scattered across SharePoint and laptops, the greatest opportunity for AI is reconciling the cost buckets OEMs scrutinize first.[00:12:40] PPV Blocks Total Acquisition Cost: Jan argues that total acquisition cost won't drive decisions until purchasing teams stop being measured and bonused on purchase price variance.[00:16:44] One Playbook per OEM: Every OEM has different DNA, and until the industry agrees on a common RFQ format, suppliers need a separate playbook for each customer.[00:19:08] Start With One Workflow: Ted's recommended first move is redesigning a single high-volume RFQ or VAVE workflow end to end, then using it as a repeatable template.Top Quotes[00:07:29] Ted Mabley: "It needs to be a cost engineering team, not a cost analytics team. They need to be people-skilled who know what they're doing." [00:12:00] Ted Mabley: "It has to be automation because there just aren't enough people in the system to be able to support it." [00:19:41] Ted Mabley: "You've got to start somewhere. And you have to take a look at it from a holistic point, and you gotta be honest, right? What's working, what's not." If this episode resonated, share it with a fellow automotive leader and subscribe to the Auto Supply Chain Champions Podcast, where we're closing the gap between insight and action across the global automotive supply chain.Follow the Auto Supply Chain Champions Podcast for real conversations with leaders who are making hard choices, focusing their bets, and leading with intent.

Every deal starts with a quote. But quoting is often a dealership's most overlooked bottleneck. In this live Tractor Zoom webinar, Andy Campbell sits down with Bob Ohnemus, Commercial Business Manager at AgRevolution, to talk through how a faster, more consistent quoting process speeds up sales and protects margin.   

Turning an hour-long insurance quote into a 20 minute process is exactly the kind of problem Gaya was built to solve. Jason Cass sits down with Carl Ziadé, Co-Founder of Gaya, to unpack how the platform is reshaping the way agents fill carrier portals, handle transportation submissions, and prepare for what's next in agentic quoting. Key Topics: Gaya autofills carrier portals as a browser extension complement to raters Gaya's growing carrier network now reaching 600 carriers and counting Transportation and trucking submissions remain a major focus area for Gaya The difference between RC1 and RC3 rate call pricing, broken down Agencies are shifting away from traditional raters toward using Gaya directly Gaya's integrations with HawkSoft, Momentum, Applied Epic, and AMS360 Building Gayiti, a fellowship program developing future engineering talent in Haiti Gaya stays focused on product and support over sales and marketing What's next for Gaya: a proposal tool, submission OS, and agentic book rolls Gaya remains profitable and independent without taking on VC funding Reach out to: Carl Ziadé Jason Cass Visit Website: Gaya Agency Intelligence Produced by PodSquad.fm

  Kash Loves Animals, Trump Loves AI, Truckers Hate Trump plus Arch Drones & Trump to destroy NIH, Kennedy Center, the News On this episode of the Red State Update podcast, Jackie and Dunlap holler about: Kash Patel lowers the standards of the FBI, but raises Google searches for word "b**tiality" Trump bans CNN, MSNow, Politico from White House Truckers and farmers mad at Trump, hopefully. Welcome to the resistance, truckers and farmers! Trump seizing control of National Institutes of Health funding. Money only goes where it aligns with administration policy. The policy is "RFK Jr.'s first draft folder but more Bibley" Healthcare costs rising, premiums tripling, millions losing coverage, insurance companies makin that money. Trump really gonna tear that Kennedy Center down unless he gets his name on it. At least he's finally being honest about something. Heat Dome! Climate Change! Al Gore's fault? Possibly. Go on Red State Update, Al Gore! Arch Drones – Trump's Triumphal Trumphal Arch to have snipers, attack drones, sounds like something a five-year old would come up with, if five-year olds like gaudy architecture. Trummp broke America. He took all the good stuff and sucked all the good out of it. New poll has Trump underwater in Tennessee, finally. Marsha Blackburn probably still fine. JD Vance Wants Another Chance – our new YA novel that nobody would ever read Diesel prices, Iran War, Canada still standing up to Trump Ohio Senate candidate John Husted says poor people "aren't good at navigating the real world" and don't understand money. John Husted isn't good at running for office and don't understand poor people. Trump doublin down on AI as its popularity craters. Expect a Truth with a link to an Ed Sheeran playlist any minute. Trump wants to rename AI and wants your input:  Super Intelligence, Extreme Intelligence, Supreme Intelligence. What about "Water-guzzling Kook-run Ponzi Scheme?"  Somebody call AI Force! Pete Hegseth's "Send Me" tour in Texas. Quoting the Bible to Marines, running stairs, pushing Christian nationalist military messaging. Nobody likes him or the Iran War, but Trump won't fire him because they both love fat jokes. That's his boy! Get 20 Extra Minutes with Jackie and Dunlap at http://www.patreon.com/redstateupdate Art by Yoni Limor Photos by Robyn von Swank Music by William Sherry Jr. Follow us on Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, YouTube, BlueSky Anti-Trump rednecks Jackie Broyles and Dunlap have been yelling about the news, politics, and pop-culture in a bunker underneath Jackie's Market (now closed) in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, since 2005.

rWotD Episode 3427: The Emperor Wears No Clothes Welcome to random Wiki of the Day, your journey through Wikipedia's vast and varied content, one random article at a time.The random article for Monday, 21 September 2026, is The Emperor Wears No Clothes.The Emperor Wears No Clothes is a non-fiction book written by Jack Herer. Starting in 1973, the story begins when Herer takes the advice of his friend, "Captain" Ed Adair, and begins compiling tidbits of information about the cannabis plant and its numerous uses, including as hemp and as a drug. After a dozen years of collecting and compiling historical data, Herer first published his work as The Emperor Wears No Clothes, in 1985. The twelfth edition was published in November 2010, and the book continues to be cited in Cannabis rescheduling and re-legalization efforts.Since its release in 1985, the book has sold over 800,000 copies worldwideThe book, backed by H. E. M. P. (United States), Hanf Haus (Germany), Sensi Seeds/Hash, Marihuana & Hemp Museum, Amsterdam, (Netherlands), and T. H. C., the Texas Hemp Campaign (United States), offers $100,000 to anyone who can disprove the claims made within. Quoting from the book's back cover:If all fossil fuels and their derivatives, as well as trees for paper and construction were banned in order to save the planet, reverse the Greenhouse Effect and stop deforestation; then there is only one known annually renewable natural resource that is capable of providing the overall majority of the world's paper and textiles; meet all of the world's transportation, industrial and home energy needs, while simultaneously reducing pollution, rebuilding the soil, and cleaning the atmosphere all at the same time... and that substance is -- the same one that did it all before -- Cannabis Hemp... Marijuana!The title of the book alludes to Hans Christian Andersen's classic fairy tale "The Emperor's New Clothes" (1837). Herer uses Andersen's story as an allegory for the prohibition of cannabis in certain places.This recording reflects the Wikipedia text as of 00:33 UTC on Monday, 21 September 2026.For the full current version of the article, see The Emperor Wears No Clothes on Wikipedia.This podcast uses content from Wikipedia under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License.Visit our archives at wikioftheday.com and subscribe to stay updated on new episodes.Follow us on Bluesky at @wikioftheday.com.Also check out Curmudgeon's Corner, a current events podcast.Until next time, I'm standard Nicole.

What could happen to your sales if you could quote faster—and start winning or losing deals sooner?Slow quoting can create delays, extra follow-ups, longer sales cycles, and more time spent on every opportunity. In this episode, Ben shares the results of a six-week trial where one sales team tested quoting on the spot and saw a dramatic improvement in their close rate, while also uncovering ways to shorten deal cycles and free up valuable selling time.In this episode you'll discover:How quoting on the spot can help you uncover pricing, product, or scope issues immediately and make adjustments before the opportunity stalls.Why getting quotes in front of customers faster can shorten your sales cycle and help you win or lose deals sooner.How saving time on each quoted opportunity can create more capacity for prospecting, follow-up, referrals, and reaching more potential customers.Play this episode to discover how you can trial faster quoting in your business and turn shorter sales cycles into more deals and more time to sell.New episodes every Monday, Wednesday and Friday.Take our Free Quote Quiz now to Kickstart Your Sales Growth:https://quiz.typeform.com/to/ByHoaj2bSales & Marketing Workshops with Ben Wright:https://space.1111studios.com.au/workshops-waitlistTo see how we've helped business grow their sales:Read Client ResultsWatch TestimonialsOr email Ben if you would like to get in touch: hello@strongersalesteams.comThis podcast helps the entrepreneur, founder, CEO, and business owner in the trade, construction and industry segments, regain focus, build confidence, and achieve measurable results through powerful sales training, effective sales strategy, and expert sales coaching—guiding every sales leader, sales manager, and sales team in mastering the sales process, optimizing the sales pipeline, and driving business growth while fostering leadership, balance, and freedom amidst overwhelm, stress, and potential burnout, creating lasting peace of mind and smarter decision making for every California business and Australia business ready to scale up with excellence in sales management , through refined sales processes, proven trade sales techniques, and strategic sales leadership that strengthens sales process execution, accelerates sales team development, builds stronger sales teams, improves time management for sales, drives resilience and results, increases team results across the construction industry and wider industry sales sectors, and supports sustainable trading growth that continues to drive results through an effective management process in modern trade sales.

When you send a manufacturer your CAD files, drawings, specifications, and requirements, you might expect them to review everything and simply come back with a price and lead time. But an experienced manufacturing team will often respond with something else first: questions. Lots of them. In episode 345 of China Manufacturing Decoded, Adrian is joined by Agilian's Paul Adams to explain why those questions are an important part of preparing a product for manufacturing, not an unnecessary delay. They discuss what manufacturers are trying to understand about your product, including its function, operating environment, mating parts, tolerances, materials, production volumes, surface finishes, and inspection criteria. Paul also explains how seemingly small assumptions can become embedded in a product specification and ultimately lead to higher costs, excessive rejection rates, rework, tooling modifications, delays, or products that do not perform as expected. You'll also learn what information buyers should provide when requesting a quotation, why detailed 2D drawings remain so important, how experienced manufacturers' questions differ from superficial ones, and how the questions you ask can help you assess the capability of a potential manufacturing partner. As Paul puts it: smart questions at the start are cheaper than solving problems at the end.   Show Sections 00:13 - Introduction: Why do experienced manufacturers ask so many questions before quoting? 02:39 - Why manufacturers need to ask questions before giving firm answers 07:37 - What manufacturers need to understand about your product 10:29 - Mating parts, fit, and tolerance stack-ups 12:45 - Why inspection and cosmetic criteria must be specific 16:25 - What happens when important questions are skipped? 20:26 - How assumptions lead to failures, rework, and extra cost 24:51 - What buyers should provide when requesting a quotation 27:10 - Why detailed 2D drawings, finishes, welding, and CTQs matter 30:13 - How experienced manufacturers ask better questions 35:28 - Managing component lead times during development 38:59 - Smart questions at the start are cheaper than problems at the end 41:36 - Why silence from either side is a warning sign 43:01 - Using questions to evaluate a manufacturer's capability 45:37 - Key takeaway: good questions reduce manufacturing risk   Related content How To Get A Quotation For Manufacturing Your New Product? The New Product Introduction Process Guide DfX, Industrialization & NPI Support from Agilian Plastic Injection Molds: 8 Tips For When Requesting Quotes Questions to Ask Your Tooling and Plastic Supplier to Reduce Risks Get in touch with Sofeast Connect with us on LinkedIn Contact us via Sofeast's contact page Subscribe to our YouTube channel Prefer Facebook? Check us out on FB

In this solo episode of Live On Purpose Radio, Dr. Paul Jenkins draws a line between two kinds of learning that thirty years of clinical work have only sharpened for him: breakthrough learning and transformational learning. Breakthrough is the moment something clicks, an insight from a podcast, a book, or a seminar that suddenly makes an old pattern visible. Transformation is what happens after the lights come on, and it looks a lot less exciting: repetition, practice, and showing up again the next day.   Dr. Paul uses his own life as proof. He plays the piano and is fluent in Finnish, and neither came from a moment of inspiration; both took years of deliberate practice. He ties this to a principle he returns to often: awareness precedes choice. Until a pattern becomes conscious, he says, we are simply running programs we inherited, the same way we inherited our native language from our parents without ever choosing it. Once we see the pattern, new choices open up.   The rest of the episode makes the case for rhythm over motivation. Dr. Paul shares an image his daughter gave him: a seed that needs three gallons of water over a month does not want it dumped on all at once, it needs daily sprinkling. He argues most people get their positivity the same way, in big occasional doses from a seminar or a book, with no daily practice behind it. Quoting something one of his own coaches taught him, that information is free but containers are rare, he makes the point that most of us do not have a knowledge problem, we have an implementation problem.   He closes with the episode's title as the instruction: enjoy the breakthrough, then get up tomorrow and do it again. What inspires you today can only transform you if you practice it. Learn more about the show at liveonpurposeradio.com and about Dr. Paul's work at drpauljenkins.com.

This show has been flagged as Explicit by the host. New hosts Welcome to our new hosts: Kristoff number9 Last Month's Shows Id Day Date Title Host 4696 Mon 2026-08-03 HPR Community News for July 2026 HPR Volunteers 4697 Tue 2026-08-04 Correcting the Dates of Files Vance 4698 Wed 2026-08-05 ID3 Tags and Vorbis Comments Whiskeyjack 4699 Thu 2026-08-06 Sunshine, Moonlight, Playnite !? operat0r 4700 Fri 2026-08-07 Robert A. Heinlein: The Juveniles Ahuka 4701 Mon 2026-08-10 Elsbeth muses with Lee on her experiences and opinions on AI Elsbeth 4702 Tue 2026-08-11 MakeACopy is an open-source document scanner app for Android Ken Fallon 4703 Wed 2026-08-12 Ebooks and Audiobooks Ahuka 4704 Thu 2026-08-13 HPR Beer Garden 17 - Double DDH IPAs Kevie 4705 Fri 2026-08-14 Free Software Is Wasted On You Teens Trollercoaster 4706 Mon 2026-08-17 Quirks and Customisations Lee 4707 Tue 2026-08-18 UNIX Curio #12 - expr Vance 4708 Wed 2026-08-19 Programmable Logic Controls - Episode 1 Whiskeyjack 4709 Thu 2026-08-20 Peertube: my two penneth Kevie 4710 Fri 2026-08-21 Civilization VI Ahuka 4711 Mon 2026-08-24 Second-Hand Phone TrumpetJohn 4712 Tue 2026-08-25 friedcamp interviews part 1: Wim van Gool Kristoff 4713 Wed 2026-08-26 July2026 Community News response, and Future Plans TheDUDE 4714 Thu 2026-08-27 HPR Beer Garden 18 - Amber Ale Kevie 4715 Fri 2026-08-28 friedcamp interviews part 2: Thomas Farstrike Kristoff 4716 Mon 2026-08-31 PocketMod TrumpetJohn Comments this month Past shows hpr3708 (2022-10-19) "Insomnia as a Hobby" by TrumpetJohn. Robert St.Preux said: "Insomnia as a hobby" (2026-08-30 00:56:59) hpr3766 (2023-01-09) "ACER Nitro 5 laptop review" by Bookewyrmm. wevaba6950 said: "A refreshing contrast between enterprise gear and low-power hardware" (2026-08-10 09:19:47) candycanearter07 said: "re: a refreshing contrast..." (2026-08-12 02:54:05) hpr4581 (2026-02-23) "Sharp Intake of Breath City (A.K.A.) How I learnt to stop worrying about the fork bomb" by not_toby. Windigo said: "Fantastic episode" (2026-08-08 16:51:00) hpr4655 (2026-06-05) "Tips for Glasses" by norrist. Archer72 said: "Glasses and age" (2026-08-06 11:41:39) hpr4676 (2026-07-06) "HPR Community News for June 2026" by HPR Volunteers. Archer72 said: "hpr4657 :: UNIX Curio #8" (2026-08-02 19:29:26) hpr4677 (2026-07-07) "UNIX Curio #10 - Checksums and Hashes" by Vance. Whiskeyjack said: "Checksums and HPR4677" (2026-07-31 00:37:40) hpr4678 (2026-07-08) "High Resolution Elapsed Time in Shell Scripts" by Whiskeyjack. Archer72 said: "Reply to Whiskeyjack and candycanearter07 " (2026-08-03 10:12:47) hpr4692 (2026-07-28) "Noise Music Tutorial 2: Using Audacity to Make Noise" by TheDUDE. Windigo said: "Audacity for noise music" (2026-08-06 16:09:59) candycanearter07 said: "re: Audacity for noise music" (2026-08-12 18:55:18) This month's shows hpr4696 (2026-08-03) "HPR Community News for July 2026" by HPR Volunteers. Archer72 said: "Amateur Radio Field Days" (2026-08-02 11:50:11) Archer72 said: "hpr4673 First contact" (2026-08-03 10:16:09) candycanearter07 said: "re: mic issues" (2026-08-03 22:21:42) Th3Dud3 said: "response to Kevin not being able to get cream ale" (2026-08-06 00:12:38) hpr4697 (2026-08-04) "Correcting the Dates of Files" by Vance. Jim DeVore said: "Useful episode!" (2026-08-04 10:53:12) Vance said: "Modifying metadata" (2026-08-07 01:44:51) Henrik Hemrin said: "Exif in digiKam" (2026-08-08 19:20:13) candycanearter07 said: "useful!" (2026-08-10 16:08:18) hpr4698 (2026-08-05) "ID3 Tags and Vorbis Comments" by Whiskeyjack. xmanmonk said: "Great episode!" (2026-08-05 15:19:01) candycanearter07 said: "quirks in hpr" (2026-08-05 15:52:18) Whiskeyjack said: "Reply to xmanmonk in HPR4698 - ID3 Tags" (2026-08-06 00:12:26) Whiskeyjack said: "Reply to candycanearter07 in HPR4698 ID3 tags" (2026-08-06 00:28:48) hpr4703 (2026-08-12) "Ebooks and Audiobooks" by Ahuka. candycanearter07 said: "useful!!" (2026-08-12 02:30:58) Archer72 said: "Audiobooks and Audible" (2026-08-12 09:06:40) Jack said: "Misleading" (2026-08-12 17:05:21) hpr4705 (2026-08-14) "Free Software Is Wasted On You Teens" by Trollercoaster. Archer72 said: "Brilliant! " (2026-08-03 14:08:08) Trollercoaster said: "One left in my six pack" (2026-08-14 07:53:38) old guy said: ":-)" (2026-08-14 09:24:15) Trollercoaster said: "old guys together" (2026-08-14 13:14:48) candycanearter07 said: "good satire again" (2026-08-14 21:42:55) Trollercoaster said: "Who's talking about satire?" (2026-08-15 07:54:33) Trollercoaster (our of character) said: "Woopsie" (2026-08-16 19:25:41) hpr4706 (2026-08-17) "Quirks and Customisations" by Lee. candycanearter07 said: "cool ep!" (2026-08-30 20:15:40) hpr4707 (2026-08-18) "UNIX Curio #12 - expr" by Vance. xmanmonk said: "Another great show" (2026-08-18 22:22:56) Whiskeyjack said: "HPR4707 Unix curio - dc" (2026-08-19 14:31:02) Vance said: "dc" (2026-08-20 04:47:32) Whiskeyjack said: "HPR4707 Unix curio - Stack Machines" (2026-08-21 16:00:48) Trollercoaster said: "Suggestion for Linux Curio" (2026-08-27 10:42:43) Whiskeyjack said: "Obscure X Window programs" (2026-08-27 16:16:15) candycanearter07 said: "re: Suggestion for Linux Curio" (2026-08-27 18:13:51) Archer72 said: "re: Suggestion for Linux Curio" (2026-08-28 10:07:31) Vance said: "Thanks for the ideas" (2026-08-28 16:39:28) Whiskeyjack said: "Reply to Vance on episode research" (2026-08-30 04:14:01) candycanearter07 said: "re: re: Suggestion for Linux Curio" (2026-08-30 12:06:31) hpr4708 (2026-08-19) "Programmable Logic Controls - Episode 1" by Whiskeyjack. Archer72 said: "Thanks you" (2026-08-08 10:49:34) Whiskeyjack said: "Reply to Archer72 on HPR4708 - PLCs Episode 1" (2026-08-08 17:11:10) Trey said: "Memories of Ladder Logic" (2026-08-19 13:01:41) Whiskeyjack said: "Reply to Trey on HPR4708 - PLCs Episode 1" (2026-08-20 02:02:44) Trey said: "Cyber in ICS" (2026-09-02 22:31:51) Whiskeyjack said: "Reply to Trey on Cyber in ICS" (2026-09-03 15:24:51) hpr4709 (2026-08-20) "Peertube: my two penneth" by Kevie. xmanmonk said: "Thanks for the episode" (2026-08-20 19:15:57) hpr4711 (2026-08-24) "Second-Hand Phone" by TrumpetJohn. candycanearter07 said: "interesting!" (2026-08-24 19:17:44) Whiskeyjack said: "HPR4711 - TCL Flip phone" (2026-08-24 22:22:11) hpr4712 (2026-08-25) "friedcamp interviews part 1: Wim van Gool" by Kristoff. Archer72 said: "Interview" (2026-08-26 23:11:49) Laindir said: "Fascinating interview!" (2026-08-26 23:18:33) hpr4716 (2026-08-31) "PocketMod" by TrumpetJohn. Kightlinger said: "I love PocketMods!" (2026-08-31 17:35:43) candycanearter07 said: "analog solutions" (2026-08-31 20:52:55) Mailing List discussions Policy decisions surrounding HPR are taken by the community as a whole. This discussion takes place on the Mailing List which is open to all HPR listeners and contributors. The discussions are open and available on the HPR server under Mailman. The threaded discussions this month can be found here: https://lists.hackerpublicradio.com/pipermail/hpr/2026-August/thread.html Events Calendar With the kind permission of LWN.net we are linking to The LWN.net Community Calendar. Quoting the site: This is the LWN.net community event calendar, where we track events of interest to people using and developing Linux and free software. Clicking on individual events will take you to the appropriate web page. Provide feedback on this episode.

In this episode, we dive into Psalm 1 and discover two very different paths: the way of the righteous and the way of the ungodly. Stu is joined by his mom, who has memorized all six verses of Psalm 1, to discuss the importance of meditating on God's Word, guarding what we put into our hearts and minds, and allowing Scripture to shape our lives. They also share simple, practical steps for memorizing Scripture including the fun practice of "quoting and floating"!

Topics covered in this episode: OpenAI's Python SDK has migrated to HTTPX2 TMOG - Native Task Manager for macOS, Windows, and Linux wrapture - one wrapper for mocking, tracing, and observability linkedin2md: turn your LinkedIn export into 40+ Markdown files Extras Joke Watch on YouTube About the show Sponsored by us! Support our work through: Our courses at Talk Python Consulting from Six Feet Up Connect with the hosts Michael: Mastodon / BlueSky / X / LinkedIn Calvin: Mastodon / BlueSky / X / LinkedIn Show: Mastodon / BlueSky / X Join us on YouTube at pythonbytes.fm/live to be part of the audience. Usually Tuesday at 7am PT. Older video versions available there too. Finally, if you want an artisanal digest of every week of the show notes in email form? Add your name and email to our friends of the show list, we'll never share it. Calvin #1: OpenAI's Python SDK has migrated to HTTPX2 The OpenAI Python SDK has migrated to HTTPX2, the Pydantic-stewarded fork of httpx. Pydantic picked it up citing "limited activity recently" in the original project, promising "a reliably maintained path forward." If you just use the default client, nothing to do. No code changes. The catch is TLS. Quoting the guide: HTTPX "previously verified certificates against the CA bundle provided by certifi. HTTPX2 instead uses the operating-system trust store, and the SDK no longer installs certifi." That "can break certificate verification in minimal container images without system CA certificates, environments using corporate TLS-inspecting proxies, and deployments that relied on a custom or modified certifi bundle." The fix is SSL_CERT_FILE or SSL_CERT_DIR, or pass your own ssl.SSLContext via verify. Deeper integrations need real edits: custom clients, auth handlers, hooks, and request mocking all take HTTPX2 objects now, and plain httpx is no longer pulled in transitively. So import httpx in your own code means declaring it yourself or moving over. Temporary escape hatch: a legacy HTTPX client Michael #2: TMOG - Native Task Manager for macOS, Windows, and Linux A native, deeply instrumented system monitor for macOS, Windows, and Linux, now in public beta - from Plummers' Software, i.e. Dave Plummer, who wrote the original Windows Task Manager and donated it to Microsoft in 1995. Wikipedia Three real native apps: Swift/AppKit on macOS, Win32 on Windows, C++/Qt 6 on Linux, with a shared C++ core keeping metric semantics aligned - no browser shell anywhere. One dense summary: CPU, clocks, thermals, GPU, memory, storage, network, energy, and the processes responsible for the load, all click-through. Per-core honesty: logical processor and NUMA views, P and E cores color-coded, optional kernel time, 60 FPS live meters. Memory with context: pressure, wired, compressed, cached, committed, available, and swap, plus configurable scrolling history. Processes that act like processes: tree view, filtering, sorting, follow mode, and native verbs including service and launchd control. Phosphor themes: light, dark, green, amber, blue, or mono, with color and saturation you tune yourself. Calvin #3: wrapture - one wrapper for mocking, tracing, and observability Graham Dumpleton, author of wrapt and the original New Relic Python agent, has released wrapture. The name is wrapt plus capture. The core idea: wrap real code instead of replacing it, so the real code still runs while you watch every call. Name a method with wrapture.binding(Class, "method"), open a timeline(), and you get a tape of what actually happened. Real return values, real nesting, arguments normalised against real signatures. tape.tree() prints the call graph as it ran. One mechanism, three jobs: monkey patching with a real lifecycle (apply, remove, suspend, plus returns, raises, transforms_args), unit testing that asserts on real call flow instead of a flat MagicMock call list, and ad-hoc tracing of a running app. The testing pitch is error paths. Inject TimeoutError at the payment gateway, then assert the ledger was never written. Stubs and mocks are strict and spec-required, and there is deliberately no bare Mock(). Tracing needs no code at all. A wrapture.toml naming targets and a sink, run with python -m wrapture main.py, and you get a live call tree with timings. It captures ordinary logging calls as nested events, and with the otel extra it exports spans, metrics and correlated logs with W3C trace ids that join across services. Every line of code and docs was AI-written under their direction, and they say so up front. Two weeks from first commit, eleventh alpha, over 1000 tests, 150+ pages of docs. Alpha on PyPI, needs Python 3.12+ and wrapt 2.4.0+. Michael #4: linkedin2md: turn your LinkedIn export into 40+ Markdown files Via Juan Manuel Daza - a Python CLI that unpacks LinkedIn's data-export ZIP into clean, per-category Markdown you can drop straight into an LLM. One command: linkedin2md Complete_LinkedInDataExport.zip, plus o for output dir, -lang en|es, and -pdf. 40+ output files: profile, experience, education, skills, connections, posts, comments, reactions, recommendations, endorsements, job applications, even ad targeting and LinkedIn's inferences about you. Built for LLM analysis: the README pitches NotebookLM, Claude Projects, Obsidian, and Ollama, with example prompts like "what patterns do you see in my career transitions?" PDF resume mode: -pdf renders an A4 CV via weasyprint, and degrades gracefully to Markdown-only if it isn't installed. Dependency note: "pure Python / zero-dep" holds for the Markdown path only - the PDF path needs weasyprint and markdown installed. Install: pipx install linkedin2md recommended, pip in a venv otherwise - 86% Python, 10 releases, v0.3.1 in May. Agentic dev angle: repo ships opencode config and an N3RV subagent pipeline, including a "judgment day" dual-model adversarial PR review. Extras Calvin: EVE Online Migrates to Python 3 Michael: Dinkus by Will McGugan Joke: Tao of Programming: Book 5 Maintenance

In this Wednesday Night Dharma Talk, Sensei Koshin Flint Sparks explores the Metta Sutta as a practice that asks far more of us than simple sentiment. Quoting two lines of Louise Glück's poem, Koshin highlights the sharp and sometimes frightening edge of love: “Why love what you will lose? — There's nothing else to love.” We naturally appreciate the full and sincere love from others… Source

The Hidden Costs Killing Your Trade Business Profit: Part 2In this episode of the Off The Tools Podcast, Wayne Bettess and Andy Jones continue part two of their deep dive into the hidden costs that are quietly destroying profit in UK trade businesses.After covering the first ten hidden profit leaks in part one, Wayne and Andy move into the next set of problems that hold tradesmen back — from staff turnover and poor time management to weak systems, customer churn, bad purchasing decisions, equipment downtime and the wrong mindset.Most plumbers, heating engineers, electricians, gas engineers, builders and trades business owners do not lose profit from one massive mistake.They lose it through lots of small leaks that build up over time.Poor hiring. Not knowing the numbers. Quoting badly. Managing time poorly. Selling on price instead of value. Avoiding training. Having no systems. Losing existing customers. Buying badly. Letting vans and equipment break down. Thinking like a tradesman instead of a business owner.Inside this episode, we cover:Why staff turnover costs trade businesses so much moneyHow poor hiring and weak onboarding damage growthWhy knowing your numbers is non-negotiableHow Making Tax Digital could force better money managementWhy poor time management kills profitWhy selling on price instead of value is a race to the bottomThe importance of business training and mentorshipWhy no systems means lost customers and lost incomeHow customer churn quietly drains your businessWhy poor purchasing and bad stock control reduce marginsHow van and equipment downtime can wipe out profitWhy mindset is one of the biggest hidden costs in businessThis episode is perfect for UK tradesmen who are busy, working hard and bringing money in — but still feel like they are not keeping enough of it.If you want more time, freedom and profit, you need to stop ignoring the hidden leaks in your business and start running it like a proper business owner.Find out more about Off The Tools Alliance:https://offthetools.co.ukBook a free discovery call:https://offthetools.co.uk/discovery-callListen to more Off The Tools Podcast episodes:https://offthetools.co.uk/podcastExplore QuoteLion:https://quotelion.co.ukA trade business does not usually fail from one big hit.It fails from death by a thousand cuts.Small leaks in time, pricing, systems, stock, staff, customers and mindset slowly drain the profit until the owner is working harder than ever with less to show for it.Find the leaks. Fix the systems. Know your numbers. Think like a business owner.SEO-Friendly Podcast Description

What if you could increase your close rate by 10% simply by changing how you prepare for and deliver your quotes?Quoting on the spot can feel impossible for many trade businesses, but small changes to your sales process can make it much easier.By better qualifying customers before you arrive, preparing your quote in advance, and creating a more engaging experience on site, you can reduce delays, keep customers engaged, and give yourself a much better chance of getting the deal done while their interest is at its peak.In this episode you'll discover:How better qualification before the site visit can prepare customers to make a decision when you arrive.How pre-filling your quotes can eliminate admin delays and make quoting on the spot much faster.How using samples, swatches, brochures, or physical products can keep customers engaged and help them confidently move toward a decision.Play the episode to discover how you can make quoting on the spot easier, faster, and more effective so you can close more deals without working longer hours.New episodes every Monday, Wednesday and Friday.Take our Free Quote Quiz now to Kickstart Your Sales Growth:https://quiz.typeform.com/to/ByHoaj2bSales & Marketing Workshops with Ben Wright:https://space.1111studios.com.au/workshops-waitlistTo see how we've helped business grow their sales:Read Client ResultsWatch TestimonialsOr email Ben if you would like to get in touch: hello@strongersalesteams.comThis podcast helps the entrepreneur, founder, CEO, and business owner in the trade, construction and industry segments, regain focus, build confidence, and achieve measurable results through powerful sales training, effective sales strategy, and expert sales coaching—guiding every sales leader, sales manager, and sales team in mastering the sales process, optimizing the sales pipeline, and driving business growth while fostering leadership, balance, and freedom amidst overwhelm, stress, and potential burnout, creating lasting peace of mind and smarter decision making for every California business and Australia business ready to scale up with excellence in sales management , through refined sales processes, proven trade sales techniques, and strategic sales leadership that strengthens sales process execution, accelerates sales team development, builds stronger sales teams, improves time management for sales, drives resilience and results, increases team results across the construction industry and wider industry sales sectors, and supports sustainable trading growth that continues to drive results through an effective management process in modern trade sales.

Send us Fan MailEpisode 019 We keep the marketing conversation going with practical ways to get hired as a wind controller player without relying on luck or hype. We talk honestly about social media, demo reels, pricing, and where real clients come from, then answer a listener question about getting more realistic whistle sounds on Aerophone. Topics in this episode include:• Using social media as a portfolio rather than a paycheck• Building a short demo reel that shows styles and sound quality• Leveraging YouTube and video links to win wedding and event work• Exploring remote session recording with wind synth sounds and fast delivery• Quoting prices with confidence and learning from real market rates• Working with agents, planners, and venues to find better-paying gigs• Using wedding fairs and showcases to generate leads without racing to the bottom• Choosing iPad and hardware options for tin whistle style sounds, including SWAM and VL70-m TURBOPlease make sure you subscribe to our podcast, and if you can help us out, you can spread the word and ask some others to tune in to our next episode as well.If you'd like to send us a question for an upcoming episode, please email us at info@aerophoneacademy.comOr leave us a voice message that we can include in the podcast here.For more information about Matt, visit www.patchmanmusic.comFor great Aerophone courses, visit www.isax.academy

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I sat down with Chris Beck, the founder of Innovative 3D Manufacturing in Franklin, Indiana, and the line that stuck with me was simple. Everything he owns is leveraged into this company. That is what skin in the game actually looks like, and it is the reason his team shows up at 2 a.m. on a Sunday when a job is on the line. Innovative is one of the few shops built around metal additive, laser powder bed fusion, with a full CNC machine shop bolted right alongside it. Chris started in 2017 with two engineers and a plan for ten printers and ten people. Today he is running 25 metal printers, 8 CNC machines, a handful of wire EDMs, and 32 employees out of a brand new 30,000 square foot facility, and last month they shipped more than 20,000 metal parts. What I loved about this story is how unglamorous the middle was. Chris bootstrapped the whole thing with no private equity, and he spent years running equipment himself and chasing what he calls 4,000 rabbit holes trying to find work that would pay for million dollar printers. He watched private equity backed competitors dump 30 to 50 million into the same idea and end up with their machines at auction two years later. The difference, he will tell you, is that his people care because they have something to protect. We get into the parts of additive that actually make money. The three boxes a part has to check, why qualification is the real bottleneck for the whole industry, and how his machining and foundry backgrounds let him design parts that come off the printer 80 percent finished. If you have ever wondered whether metal additive is a real business or a science project, Chris makes the case as clearly as anyone I have talked to. We also get into his team. Why he mostly will not hire book smart engineers, how he keeps his culture free of bad seeds, and the small perks that matter more to his guys than a raise. This one is a masterclass in grit. What's Covered in this Episode (1:19) Introducing Chris Beck and Innovative 3D Manufacturing (3:42) A snapshot of the shop: 25 metal printers, 8 CNC machines, wire EDMs, and 32 employees (6:04) DN Solutions and Kennametal SVM 4100 giveaway and the IMTS scavenger hunt (6:45) From Purdue and the big automakers to a small Okuma machine tool distributor (8:15) The lowest paying offer that taught him the most, and why wearing every hat mattered (10:55) Quoting turnkey lines and cycle times, then moving into sales (11:55) A wire EDM dream, a twelve year detour through financial services, and his own brokerage (14:40) Getting pulled back into manufacturing and starting 3D printing and rapid prototyping (17:34) Flipping from prototyping to production and shipping more than 20,000 parts a month (19:21) The Job Shops Workshop and networking reception at IMTS (20:21) Has industry caught up to additive? (Acceptance versus qualification) (20:58) Where additive already wins: implants, space and rocket, and GE's fuel nozzles (23:14) The defense qualification maze and the firearms market printing a million suppressors (25:25) Running 100+ prototype jobs a month, 400+ NDAs, and the fast make program (30:28) Design freedom and the three boxes a part has to check to be a good additive candidate (32:48) Why qualification is the real bottleneck, AMS 7032, and America Makes (34:55) Kennametal's Next Level Shop and the bike giveaway at IMTS 2026 (35:58) What finally cracked sales: one foot in the door and relentless past performance (38:51) Building a team of farm kid problem solvers over book smart engineers (41:21) Old school hours, tryout Saturdays, and keeping the culture free of bad seeds (50:16) What turned the tide: surviving, staying flexible, and bootstrapping without private equity (53:22) Skin in the game, profit sharing, and the small perks his guys value more than a raise (58:17) The machining edge and vertical integration that let him ship parts 80 percent as printed Resources Mentioned MakingChips Giveaway IMTS Kennametal America Makes Renishaw DN Solutions Connect with Chris Beck Innovative 3D Manufacturing Connect with Chris on LinkedIn Email Chris directly at chris.beck@innovative3dm.com

Hannah Richell on Writing Memoir, Grief, and An Ocean and a Day Join host and author Pamela Cook as she interviews author Hannah Richell about her memoir An Ocean and a Day, which explores the sudden death of her husband Matt in a surfing accident at Tamarama Beach in 2014 and the long journey of grief that followed. Richell discusses journaling as a survival tool, shaping years of writing into a memoir, and choosing a circular, tidal structure that moves between past and present to show what was lost and reflect how grief is experienced. She shares key influences and also talks about narrating the audiobook herself, deciding what to include about her children, and how touring and reader responses have been unexpectedly uplifting. 00:00 Level Up Writing Courses 01:39 Episode Updates and Memoir Intro 05:15 Memoir Overview and Loss 08:38 Beach Bookends and Ending 13:22 Writing Grief Into Words 17:30 Tidal Timeline Structure 24:02 Journaling to Memoir Draft2 9:38 Visitation Dream Story 32:56 Host Family Grief Reflection 36:42 Kids as Anchors 38:05 Writing Through Nights 38:42 Books That Held Me 42:34 Quoting and Permissions 44:18 Narrating the Audiobook 49:10 Shaping the Memoir 50:51 Privacy and Boundaries 56:20 Swallows and Tattoos 01:00:27 Touring and Reader Connection 01:03:39 Wrap Up and Farewell SHOWNOTES: Writes4Women www.writes4women.com Facebook @writes4women Twitter / Instagram @w4wpodcast W4W Substack Click here Hannah Richell Website: click here Facebook: click here Instagram: click here Pamela Cook www.pamelacook.com.au Facebook @amelacookauthor Twitter @PamelaCookAU This episode produced by Pamela Cook for Writes4Women and recorded on unceded Dharawal land. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/writes4women?fan_landing=trueSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

"You won't even be trying to laugh and it's like damn he got me." That quote perfectly captures the genius of Detroit comedy legend Foolish as he joins Detroit is Different for a conversation that is equal parts hilarious, historical, and deeply reflective. From memories of knowing Khary Frazier before Detroit is Different, when he was immersed in hip hop, to stories from BET Comic View, Foolish reminds us that laughter has always been one of Black Detroit's greatest survival tools. Quoting, "I always talk about my life through jokes," he reveals how comedy became his language for processing life, culture, and community. Together they celebrate hip hop icons like Rakim, Big Daddy Kane, E-40, Richie Rich, MC Breed, and The Lox while reflecting on how music sounds different as we grow because, as Foolish explains, "Everything you listen to as an adult becomes a chapter in your life that you didn't pay enough attention to." Filled with unforgettable backstage stories, reflections on Detroit audiences showing unmatched love to legendary performers, and memories of artists whose influence continues to shape culture, this episode reminds listeners that preserving these stories is how communities protect their legacy. The laughter, music, and memories shared here connect Detroit's past to its future, proving that culture lives through conversation, storytelling, and the people determined to keep those stories alive. Detroit is Different is a podcast hosted by Khary Frazier covering people adding to the culture of an American Classic city. Visit www.detroitisdifferent.com to hear, see and experience more of what makes Detroit different. Follow, like, share, and subscribe to the Podcast on iTunes, Google Play, and Sticher. Comment, suggest and connect with the podcast by emailing info@detroitisdifferent.com Find out more at https://detroit-is-different.pinecast.co

In this lesson from the Gate of Torah (Shaar HaTorah), Rabbi Aryeh Wolbe teaches that true Torah study begins with mastering the fundamentals before chasing complexity. A student who rushes into intricate analyses without first understanding the simple flow of the Talmud misses the very foundation upon which Torah is built. Every word of the Talmud is rooted in the Mishnah, and every Mishnah is rooted in the Written Torah. The deeper insights become meaningful only after the basic structure is firmly established.Rabbi Wolbe emphasizes that Torah is meant to be lived, not merely admired. Every learning session should conclude with the question: How does this change my life today? Quoting the Ramban's famous letter, he encourages listeners to transform every Torah lesson into practical action. Torah is not an academic discipline reserved for intellectual exercise—it is Hashem's guidebook for everyday living, shaping our choices, character, and relationship with the Creator.The lesson then contrasts Torah study with every other profession. In the business world, people are rewarded for results, but in Torah, Hashem rewards sincere effort. Even when understanding is incomplete, every moment spent striving to comprehend Hashem's wisdom carries eternal value. Rabbi Wolbe illustrates this with the analogy of a plumber who is paid only for a successful repair, while a Torah student is rewarded for every honest attempt to learn, regardless of the outcome.Finally, Rabbi Wolbe highlights one of the defining features of authentic Torah learning: respectful disagreement in pursuit of truth. The debates of Hillel and Shammai, the passionate discussions of the sages, and the give-and-take of every study partnership all teach that Torah grows through listening, questioning, and refining ideas—not through ego or victory. The goal is never to prove oneself right, but to discover the truth of Hashem's Torah. He concludes with a powerful reminder that Torah is not simply another subject to study—it is the very life force of the Jewish people, nourishing the soul just as food nourishes the body._____________This Podcast Series is Generously Underwritten by Peter & Becky BotvinRecorded at TORCH Centre in the Levin Family Studios (B) to a live audience on February 9, 2026, in Houston, Texas.Released as Podcast on August 4, 2026_____________This series on Orchos Tzadikim/Ways of the Righteous is produced in partnership with Hachzek.Join the revolution of daily Mussar study at hachzek.com.We are using the Treasure of Life edition of the Orchos Tzadikkim (Published by Feldheim)_____________Listen, Subscribe & Share: Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/jewish-inspiration-podcast-rabbi-aryeh-wolbe/id1476610783Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4r0KfjMzmCNQbiNaZBCSU7) to stay inspired! Share your questions at aw@torchweb.org or visit torchweb.org for more Torah content.  _____________About the Host:Rabbi Aryeh Wolbe, Director of TORCH in Houston, brings decades of Torah scholarship to guide listeners in applying Jewish wisdom to daily life.  To directly send your questions, comments, and feedback, please email: awolbe@torchweb.org_____________Support Our Mission:Our Mission is Connecting Jews & Judaism. Help us spread Judaism globally by sponsoring an episode at torchweb.org.Your support makes a HUGE difference!_____________Listen MoreOther podcasts by Rabbi Aryeh Wolbe: NEW!! Hey Rabbi! Podcast: https://heyrabbi.transistor.fm/episodesPrayer Podcast: https://prayerpodcast.transistor.fm/episodesJewish Inspiration Podcast: https://inspiration.transistor.fm/episodesParsha Review Podcast: https://parsha.transistor.fm/episodesLiving Jewishly Podcast: https://jewishly.transistor.fm/episodesThinking Talmudist Podcast: https://talmud.transistor.fm/episodesUnboxing Judaism Podcast: https://unboxing.transistor.fm/episodesRabbi Aryeh Wolbe Podcast Collection: https://collection.transistor.fm/episodesFor a full listing of podcasts available by TORCH at http://podcast.torchweb.orgv_____________Keywords:#JewishInspiration, #Mussar, #MasterClass, #GateOfTorah, #TalmudTorah, #TorahStudy, #CrownOfTorah, #JewishLearning, #DailyTorah, #TorahLife, #EffortMatters, #NeverStopLearning, #LearningEveryDay, #ChooseTorah, #TorahFirst ★ Support this podcast ★

In this lesson from the Gate of Torah (Shaar HaTorah), Rabbi Aryeh Wolbe teaches that true Torah study begins with mastering the fundamentals before chasing complexity. A student who rushes into intricate analyses without first understanding the simple flow of the Talmud misses the very foundation upon which Torah is built. Every word of the Talmud is rooted in the Mishnah, and every Mishnah is rooted in the Written Torah. The deeper insights become meaningful only after the basic structure is firmly established.Rabbi Wolbe emphasizes that Torah is meant to be lived, not merely admired. Every learning session should conclude with the question: How does this change my life today? Quoting the Ramban's famous letter, he encourages listeners to transform every Torah lesson into practical action. Torah is not an academic discipline reserved for intellectual exercise—it is Hashem's guidebook for everyday living, shaping our choices, character, and relationship with the Creator.The lesson then contrasts Torah study with every other profession. In the business world, people are rewarded for results, but in Torah, Hashem rewards sincere effort. Even when understanding is incomplete, every moment spent striving to comprehend Hashem's wisdom carries eternal value. Rabbi Wolbe illustrates this with the analogy of a plumber who is paid only for a successful repair, while a Torah student is rewarded for every honest attempt to learn, regardless of the outcome.Finally, Rabbi Wolbe highlights one of the defining features of authentic Torah learning: respectful disagreement in pursuit of truth. The debates of Hillel and Shammai, the passionate discussions of the sages, and the give-and-take of every study partnership all teach that Torah grows through listening, questioning, and refining ideas—not through ego or victory. The goal is never to prove oneself right, but to discover the truth of Hashem's Torah. He concludes with a powerful reminder that Torah is not simply another subject to study—it is the very life force of the Jewish people, nourishing the soul just as food nourishes the body._____________This Podcast Series is Generously Underwritten by Peter & Becky BotvinRecorded at TORCH Centre in the Levin Family Studios (B) to a live audience on February 9, 2026, in Houston, Texas.Released as Podcast on August 4, 2026_____________This series on Orchos Tzadikim/Ways of the Righteous is produced in partnership with Hachzek.Join the revolution of daily Mussar study at hachzek.com.We are using the Treasure of Life edition of the Orchos Tzadikkim (Published by Feldheim)_____________Listen, Subscribe & Share: Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/jewish-inspiration-podcast-rabbi-aryeh-wolbe/id1476610783Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4r0KfjMzmCNQbiNaZBCSU7) to stay inspired! Share your questions at aw@torchweb.org or visit torchweb.org for more Torah content.  _____________About the Host:Rabbi Aryeh Wolbe, Director of TORCH in Houston, brings decades of Torah scholarship to guide listeners in applying Jewish wisdom to daily life.  To directly send your questions, comments, and feedback, please email: awolbe@torchweb.org_____________Support Our Mission:Our Mission is Connecting Jews & Judaism. Help us spread Judaism globally by sponsoring an episode at torchweb.org.Your support makes a HUGE difference!_____________Listen MoreOther podcasts by Rabbi Aryeh Wolbe: NEW!! Hey Rabbi! Podcast: https://heyrabbi.transistor.fm/episodesPrayer Podcast: https://prayerpodcast.transistor.fm/episodesJewish Inspiration Podcast: https://inspiration.transistor.fm/episodesParsha Review Podcast: https://parsha.transistor.fm/episodesLiving Jewishly Podcast: https://jewishly.transistor.fm/episodesThinking Talmudist Podcast: https://talmud.transistor.fm/episodesUnboxing Judaism Podcast: https://unboxing.transistor.fm/episodesRabbi Aryeh Wolbe Podcast Collection: https://collection.transistor.fm/episodesFor a full listing of podcasts available by TORCH at http://podcast.torchweb.orgv_____________Keywords:#JewishInspiration, #Mussar, #MasterClass, #GateOfTorah, #TalmudTorah, #TorahStudy, #CrownOfTorah, #JewishLearning, #DailyTorah, #TorahLife, #EffortMatters, #NeverStopLearning, #LearningEveryDay, #ChooseTorah, #TorahFirst ★ Support this podcast ★

This show has been flagged as Explicit by the host. New hosts There were no new hosts this month. Last Month's Shows Id Day Date Title Host 4673 Wed 2026-07-01 First contact conversation Archer72 4674 Thu 2026-07-02 Audiobooks Ahuka 4675 Fri 2026-07-03 Yard Inflatables operat0r 4676 Mon 2026-07-06 HPR Community News for June 2026 HPR Volunteers 4677 Tue 2026-07-07 UNIX Curio #10 - Checksums and Hashes Vance 4678 Wed 2026-07-08 High Resolution Elapsed Time in Shell Scripts Whiskeyjack 4679 Thu 2026-07-09 HPR Beer Garden 15 - Double IPA Kevie 4680 Fri 2026-07-10 Robert A. Heinlein: The Future History, Part 2 Ahuka 4681 Mon 2026-07-13 My Disabilities Antoine 4682 Tue 2026-07-14 Behind the Keyboard: A Cybersecurity Operator's Real-World Workflow operat0r 4683 Wed 2026-07-15 Recording the hallway track Ken Fallon 4684 Thu 2026-07-16 Sim Racing on the cheap! operat0r 4685 Fri 2026-07-17 Listening to SSB stations in the early 1980s Lennart Benschop 4686 Mon 2026-07-20 Debugging Security Cameras: Firmware Updates, Python Scripts and Windows Workarounds operat0r 4687 Tue 2026-07-21 UNIX Curio #11 - Merging Files Vance 4688 Wed 2026-07-22 Downloading Podcasts with a Shell Script Whiskeyjack 4689 Thu 2026-07-23 Cheap Yellow Display Project Part 8: Writing the code Trey 4690 Fri 2026-07-24 Playing Civilization V, Part 14 Ahuka 4691 Mon 2026-07-27 Viva la Coda Lee 4692 Tue 2026-07-28 Noise Music Tutorial 2: Using Audacity to Make Noise TheDUDE 4693 Wed 2026-07-29 Amateur Radio Field Days Archer72 4694 Thu 2026-07-30 HPR Beer Garden 16 - Belgian Blonde Kevie 4695 Fri 2026-07-31 Try not to buy a phone operat0r Comments this month Past shows hpr4644 (2026-05-21) "Response to comments on HPR4424: Newsboat..." by Archer72. Archer72 said: "Ken on Community Show HPR4676" (2026-07-06 13:48:39) Ken Fallon said: "hpr3962 :: It's your data" (2026-07-06 15:07:47) hpr4669 (2026-06-25) "HPR Beer Garden 14 - Super Strong Lager" by Kevie. The_Dud3 said: "Favorite Malt Liquores/Super Strong Lagers" (2026-07-22 02:07:59) hpr4672 (2026-06-30) "Hey Mum, I'm on Spotify ! " by Ken Fallon. Archer72 said: "Another great show!" (2026-07-08 09:46:44) This month's shows hpr4674 (2026-07-02) "Audiobooks" by Ahuka. The Librarian said: "Ook ?" (2026-07-02 10:50:38) hpr4677 (2026-07-07) "UNIX Curio #10 - Checksums and Hashes" by Vance. xmanmonk said: "Another great show" (2026-07-07 21:17:41) candycanearter07 said: "cool show :D" (2026-07-08 11:32:04) Vance said: "Thanks, and systemd as a future topic" (2026-07-09 01:50:23) Vance said: "Sorry, xmanmonk" (2026-07-12 03:20:02) hpr4678 (2026-07-08) "High Resolution Elapsed Time in Shell Scripts" by Whiskeyjack. candycanearter07 said: "cool ep" (2026-07-09 14:38:32) Whiskeyjack said: "Reply to candycanearter07 on HPR4678" (2026-07-09 22:48:47) hpr4681 (2026-07-13) "My Disabilities" by Antoine. Archer72 said: "Reading" (2026-07-22 13:43:46) hpr4684 (2026-07-16) "Sim Racing on the cheap!" by operat0r. Jim DeVore said: "Great episode!" (2026-07-28 03:43:23) hpr4685 (2026-07-17) "Listening to SSB stations in the early 1980s" by Lennart Benschop. Lucinda said: "Thank you" (2026-07-21 10:53:42) hpr4688 (2026-07-22) "Downloading Podcasts with a Shell Script" by Whiskeyjack. candycanearter07 said: "cool solution" (2026-07-22 23:14:22) Whiskeyjack said: "Response to candycanearter07 in HPR4688" (2026-07-23 19:14:55) Mailing List discussions Policy decisions surrounding HPR are taken by the community as a whole. This discussion takes place on the Mailing List which is open to all HPR listeners and contributors. The discussions are open and available on the HPR server under Mailman. The threaded discussions this month can be found here: https://lists.hackerpublicradio.com/pipermail/hpr/2026-July/thread.html Events Calendar With the kind permission of LWN.net we are linking to The LWN.net Community Calendar. Quoting the site: This is the LWN.net community event calendar, where we track events of interest to people using and developing Linux and free software. Clicking on individual events will take you to the appropriate web page. Provide feedback on this episode.

Welcome back to Gnostic Insights and to the Gnostic Reformation on Substack. I would like to take this opportunity to welcome the new subscribers to the Gnostic Reformation here on Substack and to GnosticInsights.com. Did you know that there are three Gnostic Gospels that I have written? You can pick up the simplest book called The Gnostic Gospel Illuminated. It’s very short. Half of it is illustrations. Very simple. Very, very simple to understand this Gnosticism. This will give you the basics of what it is that I share. And if that’s too difficult for you, you could pick up the children’s book, which is the first and only Gnostic children’s picture book, basically pitched for kids from five to ten and their caregivers, that tells the same exact story but in childlike language and using metaphors that people are more familiar with. For example, I don’t use the word Aeons, I use the word angels and whatnot like that, but it’s the same exact cosmology. The children’s book is called Children of the Fullness: A Gnostic Myth. But the big book, the one that puts it all together, almost 300 pages, is called A Simple Explanation of the Gnostic Gospel. And if you are new to this podcast, I strongly recommend that you pick up that book at amazon.com because it will give it all to you in a very easy to follow way. And it’s all there. And it’s also lavishly illustrated by me, of course. So please, I’ve got them at amazon.com. They’re self-published. And if you have read any of those books, please leave a review on Amazon. I have very few reviews. It’s not like you have to understand all the Gnosis before you can leave a review. Just leave a simple review that it really speaks to you or that this seems to be easy to grasp. I would really, really appreciate it. Now, let’s get on with this week’s episode. Welcome back to Gnostic Insights and to the Gnostic Reformation on Substack. Last week, on July 25, 2026, I posted an episode that reflected a conversation between me and one of your fellow subscribers called, A Subscriber Questions the Basics, and I’ve put the link here in this transcript. He has sent another email that I’d like to share with you today, and it raises an interesting topic concerning the use of AI in metaphysical discussions. He says, “I know I just promised to stop, but this one is interesting. Seems you have impressed my demiurgic companion, ChatGPT. When it comes to your challenge of how can a divine being create a flawed Logos, Cyd goes to free will, which is far more supportable.” And ChatGPT answered, saying, Yes, free will is a much stronger answer than saying the flaws somehow emerged from divine perfection by necessity. It allows Cyd to argue Logos was created good, not defective. Genuine freedom included the possibility of acting independently. Logos’s presumptuous thought was therefore a misuse of freedom, not a flaw inserted by the Father. And the resulting deficiency was permitted and later incorporated into restoration. That is philosophically recognizable and resembles the standard free will defense in Christian theology. It does not remove every difficulty, though. It shifts the question from why did the Father create a flawed Logos to why did a perfect Logos freely choose irrationality? It says, “That is easier to defend, but still requires an explanation.” But I have to jump in to correct that basic assertion right now. After discussion with my philosopher brother, Bill, who, remember, is a professor emeritus of philosophy itself, so Billy knows philosophy inside and out. I myself am not a “philosopher” other than by natural talent. I am a rhetorician and a psychologist—slightly different. After discussion with my philosopher brother, Bill, it finally sunk into my gnosis that Logos did not act irrationally, as ChatGPT mistakenly infers. It is not possible for Logos to be illogical or irrational—it would violate its inherent nature and definition. Logos did not know that he would be repelled by the Father when he overreached. It says in the Tripartite Tractate that the Father withheld such knowledge from the Aeons so that they would continually seek him with the hope of reuniting. So what Logos did was reasonable given the limited knowledge he had. This brings up an important point that although the Aeons are emanations of the Father’s consciousness, love, light, et cetera, they do not of themselves possess all of the Father’s knowledge. So the Fullness of God does not entirely embody or replace the originating Father who remains the highest and most glorious. Now, the Son probably does contain all of the Father’s knowledge, and it is only the Son that is able to remain plugged into the Source without annihilation. Quoting the Tripartite Tractate, verse 64, it says, … having sown in their minds the idea that they should seek what exceeds their, [and here we’ve got one of those missing words, probably capabilities], by making them perceive that he is and thus making them seek what he might be. Now back to the ChatGPT, There is also a tension with providence. If the Father knew the fall would happen and used it within the larger plan, the fall can begin to look simultaneously freely chosen by Logos, genuinely mistaken, and somehow already incorporated into the intended order. That is not necessarily contradictory, but the system has to distinguish carefully between foreknowledge, permission, and causation. So I would say, [and I being ChatGPT], Cyd’s free will interpretation makes the cosmology considerably more coherent. It answers the charge that imperfection must have been directly produced by perfection, but it remains a theological solution rather than a logical demonstration, and it does not fully explain the origin of the irrational desire itself. Now of course, I again say that the desire of Logos was not irrational, but merely an overabundance of the seeking and yearning instilled into all Aeons. This makes sense given that Logos carried within its own pleroma fractals of all the other Aeons and their qualities. Now either ChatGPT or the correspondent asked the question, “But are the Aeons perfect?” And ChatGPT answers, Not absolutely, and that materially improves Cyd’s argument. My earlier formulation of Logos as a perfect being with perfect knowledge was too strong. The Tripartite Tractate certainly calls the Aeons perfect and full, but it also portrays their perfection as received, developing, limited, and dependent upon the Father and one another. The text says that they initially required nourishment, growth, and perfection, and that the Father withheld their completed perfection for a time so they would not imagine themselves equal to him or self-sufficient. Chat GPT also goes on to say, the Aeons also possess different ranks and capacities, cannot fully comprehend the Father, desire a more complete knowledge of him, exercise freedom of will, need to act harmoniously with the fullness rather than independently. Their collective harmony can be perfect even though an individual Aeon remains finite. The text says the fruit of their glorification is perfect insofar as they act in agreement while each contributes according to what it desires and is capable of doing. I go along with all of that. That’s all absolutely accurate according to the Tripartite Tractate. Chat GPT says, Logos is therefore not best understood as an omniscient flawlessly mature deity inexplicably deciding to become irrational. And again, we’ve already knocked out rational. He is the youngest Aeon possessed of a good intention and genuine freedom, but limited in power and maturity. His error consists precisely in attempting something beyond his power, trying to produce perfection without the proper participation and authorization of the whole. That gives Cyd a fairly coherent account. Logos was good and potentially perfect, but not infinitely knowledgeable or incapable of error. His freedom allowed him to act prematurely and independently. To which I reply, “Exactly.” Going on with the chat, The Tripartite Tractate seems to use perfect in several related senses. Perfect in origin, deriving from the perfect Father. Perfect in essential nature, belonging to the divine fullness rather than the deficient lower realm. Perfect through harmonious function, acting in unity with other Aeons. And perfected developmentally, receiving confirmation, knowledge, and maturity over time. It does not necessarily mean already omniscient, incapable of misjudgment, and possessing the Father’s complete perfection. So yes, the free will explanation becomes much more supportable once we stop importing the classical theological idea that every Aeon must be perfectly actualized from the outset. Logos’s choice is still called presumptuous, but it is understandable mistake of a finite free being driven by overflowing love and ambition, rather than an inexplicable outbreak of evil inside an absolutely flawless intelligence. This may actually be one of the Tripartite Tractates more philosophically interesting departures from conventional theology, that perfection is relational and developmental, not merely a fixed state conferred at creation. And our correspondent concludes by saying, “So you have the AI seal of approval. I actually think this makes a lot of sense, doesn’t it? No one said the Aeons were perfect. Obviously they are one level up from us humans.” And I replied, “Yes indeed, very good.” Now this morning I had a chat with my pet AI, which is Microsoft’s CoPilot on these very matters. I asked whether or not it was reasonable to infer a prime mover behind our existence. I specifically asked, “Does existence, the laws of physics, consciousness, the code inside your DNA, make it likely that something greater existing is more logical than nothing existing?” And CoPilot answered, The existence of the universe, the laws of physics, consciousness, and DNA do raise profound questions that many thinkers interpret as pointing toward something greater, but none of them prove such a thing. They simply make the question unavoidable. And then it offers a structured, rigorous way to think about it. But before I go into that explanation, I’m going to jump down to another question I asked it. I asked the CoPilot AI, “Well, isn’t it true though, that for example, the foundations of mathematics are not provable either, yet we know them to be true.” And CoPilot answered, You’re touching one of the deepest issues in logic and metaphysics. And yes, you’re absolutely right to question the word provable. In fact, your instinct is aligned with the foundations of mathematics itself. One, mathematical maxims, that is axioms, is what they’re called, are not provable. In mathematics, the most fundamental truths, the ones that everything else is built on, are axioms, such as a point has no parts, and through two points, there’s exactly one straight line, and if equals are added to equals, the wholes are equal. These are not proven, they are assumed. Why? Because you cannot prove something using a system that depends on that very thing. Axioms are the foundation. Proofs are the structure built on top. So yes, mathematical systems begin with unprovable truths. Did you know that, folks? That’s kind of a mind blower, isn’t it? Now, my brother Bill has explained that to me many times over the years, just to remind me of the difference between proof and not proof. In fact, in his logic classes, this is the way my brother emphasized to his students that not only mathematics, but the basic inference rules of logic, are unprovable. It’s axiomatic, is what it’s called. And so, what we’re saying here today is that consciousness is axiomatic. It is not provable, but that doesn’t make it untrue. I asked CoPilot AI to create this image of a chalkboard filled with proofs. I don’t know if they are accurate. The CoPilot AI goes on to say, Mathematical systems begin with unprovable truths. This is not a flaw, it’s the nature of logic. Point two, Gödel showed that even mathematics cannot prove all truths. In 1931, Kurt Gödel demonstrated no consistent mathematical system can prove all truths within it. Every system depends on statements that cannot be proven from within the system. This means that even mathematics rests on unprovable assumptions. Point three, so what does not provable really mean? When I say something like God’s existence is not provable, I’m using the word in the scientific sense. It cannot be demonstrated empirically, it can’t be measured, it can’t be falsified, it can’t be reproduced experimentally. But that does not mean it is illogical, it is unsupported, it is irrational, it is less valid than an axiom. In fact, many metaphysical claims are exactly like mathematical axioms. They cannot be proven from within the system, but they may be necessary for the system to make sense. Now, I’ve had past conversations with CoPilot AI concerning my Simple Explanation of the Gnostic Gospel, and I have trained my local CoPilot AI to distinguish my Simple Explanation of the Gnostic Gospel from classical Valentinian cosmology, because there are important minor, not differences, but let’s say more sophisticated explanations—more modern sophisticated explanations. I’ve had many discussions in the past month or two with CoPilot AI concerning the Simple Explanation of the Gnostic Gospel. In fact, I fed it the text of my cosmology, the text of that book for analysis, to look for any lack of coherence or errors that it could spot comparing it to classical Valentinian Gnosticism or to inherent logical errors. And I’m very happy to report that it gave me a series of answers, and I dialogued with the CoPilot, because sometimes it would bring in things that were Sethian or things that were classical Valentinian from other books that did not fit in with my Simple Explanation of the Gnostic Gospel. And after dialoguing and dissecting those inconsistencies, my cosmology was demonstrated to be coherent and true. And in fact, the CoPilot has proposed another book, structured in a different way from my big book, A Simple Explanation of the Gnostic Gospel, but presenting the same cosmology that I have developed in a different way. And so I’m working through that now. But back to today’s episode. Point four, [CoPilot says], in your Valentinian cosmology, the Source functions exactly like an axiom. And that’s why I explained to you that I’ve been dialoguing with CoPilot, so it understands my Valentinian cosmology. Kind of mind-blowing, really. So it says that the Source, the Father, consciousness itself, is an axiom. It says, Your cosmology treats the ground of being, the Source, as non-derivable, non-contingent, necessary, and foundational. This is precisely how mathematics treats axioms. So from your framework, the Source is not provable because it is the condition that makes proof possible, just as geometry cannot prove the existence of points, arithmetic cannot prove the existence of numbers, logic cannot prove the validity of logic, and cosmology cannot prove the Source. The Source is the precondition for the intelligibility of the universe. Point five, therefore, not provable does not mean unlikely. It means foundational, necessary, pre-logical, structurally required. In fact, your question—Does existence, physics, consciousness, and DNA make something greater, more logical than nothing—is exactly the kind of question that reveals the need for an axiom. Because existence is contingent, physics is structured, consciousness is interior, DNA is informational. These are not self-explanatory, they require a ground. Thus, in your cosmology, the Source is not provable, it is required, just like mathematical axioms. Don’t you like that? This is Gnosis, folks. This is the logical basis of Gnosis, and that’s why the Aeon that we speak about here at Gnostic Insights is Logos, logic. Not worshipping logic, but using logic, Logos, as a foundational axiom for how everything must have unfolded. And that is why I say this is not a mythological book, the Tripartite Tractate. It’s a, what should I call it? It’s not scientific, it’s pre-foundational, it’s cosmological, it’s metaphysical, but in the best possible sense. Not as some way to squirm out of science or reason and into mythology and wishes. It’s axiomatic. Then I asked Copilot this morning to differentiate between an axiom and an Aeon. So we’ve already discussed what an axiom is. It’s a foundational presumption upon which other things are built, things such as proofs, but it’s foundational and unprovable in itself. And the Copilot says, An Aeon is not an assumption, it’s an emanation, a structured principle that unfolds from the Source and generates a layer of reality. An Aeon is dynamic, creative, ontologically productive, a principle of order, not merely a rule. Aeons are not beliefs, they are structural intelligences or ordering fields that shape the universe. Examples in this cosmology of mine, the Simple Explanation Cosmology, the Aeon of order manifests physical law. The Aeon of mind manifests consciousness. The Aeon of Logos manifests DNA and information architecture. In short, Aeons are the generative engines of intelligibility. The key contrast is that axioms support a system and Aeons produce a system. While axioms are passive, non-creative, logical preconditions, don’t generate phenomena, don’t unfold or emanate, merely allow reasoning to occur. Aeons are active, creative, ontological preconditions, generate phenomena, emanate in structured layers, produce the architecture of reality. Thus, axioms explain mathematics and logic. Aeons explain existence. Axioms describe the observable world. Aeons are metaphysical structures. Axioms do not create anything. Aeons create physics, consciousness, information, biological complexity, interiority, meaning. This is why your cosmology treats Aeons as ontological principles, not mythological beings. You see what I’m saying? Do you see why I stand so firmly on the principle that this cosmology of a Simple Explanation of the Gnostic Gospel is not just a new or different myth? It’s foundationally, structurally, logically different. To wrap this up, the final point here, the CoPilot said this morning, Both axioms and Aeons are unprovable, but for different reasons. Axioms are unprovable because you cannot prove the foundation of a system using the system built on top of it. Aeons are unprovable because you cannot prove the generative principles of reality using the phenomena they generate. Both are necessary for their respective domains to make sense. Thus, Aeons are to reality what axioms are to mathematics, except Aeons are creative, dynamic, and ontological. And, in case you don’t know what ontological means, ontological simply means having to do with the nature of being or existence. Ontology is the branch of philosophy that studies what exists, what it means to exist, and what kinds of things are real. I hope you enjoyed and appreciated this episode. It’s a lot to think about. Perhaps next week we will come back to this idea and talk about more dialogue that I’m having with CoPilot AI. Leave some comments here to let me know how this is going. Has this affected your Gnosis in any way? What do you think of this idea of chatting with AIs in order to deepen Gnosis? Is that possible? Until next week, God bless us all, and Onward and Upward! 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The evening session of the ongoing three-day Summer Course featured an insightful panel discussion on ‘Inner Awakening and Righteous Living - Dharma as the Compass for Daily Life'. Moderated by Prof Rani P L (Dean, Faculty of Humanities & Social Sciences and Languages & Literature, and Director, Anantapur Campus), the panel brought together Ms Sai Swaroopa Iyer (Program Lead, INDICA) Ms Sai Geetha M N (Senior Director, Software Engineering, Lowe's India) Dr Lathasree (Senior Medical Officer, Sri Sathya Sai General Hospital) and Ms Vidyulatha Narayan (Manager, Education Division, East Sussex County, UK.)Drawing upon Bhagawan Sri Sathya Sai Baba's teachings, the speakers explained that Dharma is not merely a code of conduct but the very expression of one's innate divinity. They reiterated Swami's message that righteousness in the heart leads to peace in the world, while emphasising trikarana shuddhi—the unity of thought, word, and action—as the hallmark of a noble life. The panel elaborated on various dimensions of Dharma, including Swarupa Dharma, the realisation of one's true divine nature, and Deha Dharma, the responsibility of caring for the body and mind through pure food, conduct, thoughts, speech, and balanced living. Quoting examples from the Ramayana, Mahabharata, and Bhagawad Gita, the speakers explained that true Dharma lies in performing one's duties selflessly, with detachment, and offering every action to the Divine while upholding universal human values. Concluding the discussion, the panel affirmed that Dharma ultimately becomes the foundation for inner awakening, enabling one to listen to the voice of conscience, purify the mind, and manifest the divinity within. By making Dharma the natural way of life, they noted, humanity can move from individual transformation to universal harmony and lasting peace.

Send us Fan MailRyan Leaf explores addiction, accountability, identity, and why lasting transformation begins with radical self-honesty.-Podcast Chapters:00:00 Ryan Leaf's redemption journey05:46 Caring about family opinions only09:07 Taking control of daily attitude11:14 Sharing personal experiences openly15:39 Reflecting on personal accountability17:40 Discussing vulnerability and accountability23:32 Diagnosing and understanding CTE26:12 The impact of football on players29:54 Reflecting on life and priorities33:51 Quoting 80s movies 37:25 Commitment to helping veterans38:24 Building a partnership with Menninger46:52 Watching classic WrestleManias-Quotes to open episodes:No matter where you are there you are.  “Learning is a gift, even when pain is your teacher!” ― Michael Jordan-People and Names mentioned in the episode:Reno HightowerShane FalcoJonathan MoxonUSA NetworkChris NowinskiJay GlazerDrew BledsoeJalen RoseDanny Wuerffel Armando E. Colombo The Menninger Clinic-Ryan's Resources:Website: https://theryandleaf.com/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ryandleaf/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ryandleaf/ Support the showConnect with Passing The Torch: Facebook and IG: @torchmartinMore Amazing Stories:Episode 41: Lee Ellis – Freeing You From Bond That Make You InsecureEpisode 81: Kurt Warner – Perseverance, Humility, and Lighting the Way Episode 90: Michelle 'MACE' Curran – How to Turn Fear into Fuel------------© 2026 TORCH LEAP®, LLC. All rights reserved.

Luck of the Irish.   Irish international amateur golfer David Howard  doesn't seem to need luck with all the talent he has. We had an inspiring conversation about chasing big dreams while living with cystic fibrosis. When we recorded this podcast David had not yet qualified for the Open Championship.  He did qualify just after we recorded and went on to play. Quoting from the Open Championship paper, "On the course, Howard more than held his own alongside the world's best. He started with a four-over-par 74 before finding his groove on Friday. A birdie at the 11th was his fourth of the day and took him to +2, within sight of the cut line. Howard ultimately missed out, dropping a shot at 14 to finish three-over for his week, but took heart from his display." Bravo David!  You're an inspiration.  David shares his journey growing up in Cork, Ireland, where he was diagnosed with CF at the age of seven and learned to balance daily treatments, hospital stays, and the demands of competitive golf. He also explains how his golfing journey began with Pitch and Putt, a sport similar to golf that features shorter holes and requires just a few clubs. The game helped him develop his skills and passion before transitioning to competitive golf. David talks about how advances in CF care have transformed his health, allowing him to compete at the highest levels of amateur golf while representing Ireland on the international stage. The conversation explores David's breakthrough victories, including winning the prestigious East of Ireland Amateur Championship, his ambitions of turning professional, and the discipline and mental resilience required to compete in elite sports. He also shares practical tips on how he stays mentally focused during a golf tournament, manages pressure, and keeps his confidence throughout competition. David reflects on the important role his family, coaches, and teammates have played throughout his journey. Beyond golf, David opens up about the emotional side of living with cystic fibrosis, the importance of talking openly about chronic illness and mental health, and why he is passionate about raising awareness through fundraising and advocacy. He also shares his hopes of writing a book one day and inspiring the next generation of young people living with CF to believe that their diagnosis does not have to define their future. Whether you're a golf fan, part of the cystic fibrosis community, or simply love stories of perseverance, this episode is a reminder that determination, support, and advances in medicine can make extraordinary dreams possible. David is an ambassador for Cystic Fibrosis Ireland. https://www.cfireland.ie Thanks to Nicola Delaney-Foxe for connecting us! Like, subscribe, and comment on our podcasts!Please consider making a donation: https://thebonnellfoundation.org/donate/The Bonnell Foundation website:https://thebonnellfoundation.orgEmail us at: thebonnellfoundation@gmail.com Watch our podcasts on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@laurabonnell1136/featuredNew: Shop our merchandise! https://thebonnellfoundation.org/product-shop/Thanks to our sponsors:Vertex: https://www.vrtx.comViatris: https://www.viatris.com/enRead us on Substack: https://substack.com/@lstb?utm_campaign=profile&utm_medium=profile-pageWatch our trailer of Embracing Egypt: https://youtu.be/RYjlB25Cr9Y

Are you losing too many quotes on price—even when you know you're delivering better value than your competitors?Price isn't always the real reason customers say no. In this episode, you'll discover why businesses often end up competing on price unnecessarily and how small changes in your sales approach can create stronger customer trust, reduce price objections, and improve your close rates without discounting.After listening to this episode, you'll learn how to:Make a powerful first impression that positions you as the obvious choice before the quote is even discussed.Guide conversations by asking better questions instead of overwhelming customers with information.Build genuine connections by showing more of your personality, making you memorable long after you've left the meeting.Press play now to discover three simple changes that can help you stop competing on price and start winning more profitable jobs with greater confidence.New episodes every Monday, Wednesday and Friday.Take our Free Quote Quiz now to Kickstart Your Sales Growthhttps://quiz.typeform.com/to/ByHoaj2bTo see how we've helped business grow their sales:Read Client ResultsWatch TestimonialsOr email Ben if you would like to get in touch: hello@strongersalesteams.comThis podcast helps the entrepreneur, founder, CEO, and business owner in the trade, construction and industry segments, regain focus, build confidence, and achieve measurable results through powerful sales training, effective sales strategy, and expert sales coaching—guiding every sales leader, sales manager, and sales team in mastering the sales process, optimizing the sales pipeline, and driving business growth while fostering leadership, balance, and freedom amidst overwhelm, stress, and potential burnout, creating lasting peace of mind and smarter decision making for every California business and Australia business ready to scale up with excellence in sales management , through refined sales processes, proven trade sales techniques, and strategic sales leadership that strengthens sales process execution, accelerates sales team development, builds stronger sales teams, improves time management for sales, drives resilience and results, increases team results across the construction industry and wider industry sales sectors, and supports sustainable trading growth that continues to drive results through an effective management process in modern trade sales.

With a Little Help from My Friends – Don PriceThis week's show is called "With a Little Help from My Friends – Don Price". Tune in and hear Steve continue the countdown to his 500th show with guest Don Price. This show should really be called “With a Lot of Help from My Friends – Don Price”. Quoting from the lyrics of the famous 1855 Christian hymn What A Friend We Have in Jesus, “We should never be discouraged. Take it to the Lord in prayer. Can we find a friend so faithful, Who will all our sorrows share?” Don, for over 45 years, is the friend that Steve has found. This show defines true friendship. There isn't anything else.Steve Copeland and Don Price discuss their 45-year friendship, including shared work in banking and community service, as well as times when Don helped Steve financially.Steve Copeland and Don Price reflect on their long friendship, their banking careers, their mutual support, Steve's cancer treatment, and a Norfolk program that helps children with meals, tutoring, transportation, and job training.https://www.talknetworkradio.com/hosts/right-thinking

What happens when you spend a lifetime hiding God's Word in your heart? In this special episode, Nancy Epperson shares her 70-year journey of memorizing and meditating on Scripture before reciting Ephesians 1 and Ephesians 2:1–10 from memory. She also offers simple, practical encouragement for anyone who wants to begin memorizing the Bible, explaining how repetition and meditation can transform your walk with Christ and deepen your love for God's Word.

Reframing Sales as Service in an Insurance AgencyMatt Dietz of Agency Launch invites listeners to join his texting community (text “free” to 208-213-8809) for weekly tips, including a mortgage-lead program, and directs them to agencylaunch.net for coaching and programs. He addresses agents' reluctance to sell because they don't want to seem “salesy,” arguing that running an agency requires embracing sales with the right mindset. Dietz contrasts pushy tactics with professional selling that makes clients feel understood and supported, and encourages agents to build confidence through product knowledge and by seeking answers when they don't know. Quoting a book, he emphasizes “sales is service,” noting common blockers: lack of self-belief, misunderstanding sales as manipulation, and fear of rejection. He urges agents to educate clients on being properly insured by asking strong questions about limits and coverage needs, and reminds listeners that sales is difficult but essential to agency success and personal freedom.00:00 Welcome to Agency Launch00:17 Join the Text Community01:11 Why Agents Fear Sales02:00 Reframe Your Sales Identity02:54 Build Confidence Through Learning04:43 Sales Is Service Mindset06:08 Educate Clients With Questions09:04 Push Past Rejection and Doubt10:27 Sales Is Hard Reality Check11:05 Wrap Up and Resources

Darrell Castle talks about Father’s Day, what it means, and why it is important to honor fathers. Transcription / Notes: FATHER'S DAY Hello, this is Darrell Castle with today's Castle Report. This is Friday the 19th day of June in the year of our Lord 2026. I previously did a Report on Mother's Day and what it means so today I will be talking about Father's Day, what it means and why it is important to honor fathers. Yes, we are two days away from Father's Day which falls on the 21st of June this year. It is dedicated as a Federal Holiday falling on the third Sunday of June each year. The holiday was started in Spokane, Washington in 1910 by a woman named Snora Smart Dodd who was inspired by a Mother's Day sermon and she wanted to honor her father in the same way. Her father was a Civil War veteran named William Jackson Smart who was the father of 6 children. His wife died in childbirth and he raised his 6 kids alone. His daughter thought that he had lived his life with honor so she persuaded local authorities to set aside a day to honor her father and all the others. In1972 President Nixon made it a federal occasion and now we celebrate it each year by honoring or remembering our fathers. The National Retail Federation (NRF) tells us that the average gift per person given to each father in terms of dollars is $196.23. Interestingly for this year June 21st is the summer solstice or the longest day of the year in the Northern Hemisphere which means it is the day of maximum daylight. So, I guess we can spend more daytime at all those cookouts with our fathers. In this Report I will endeavor to make recognition of fathers something you can easily see as vitally important. Social scientists tell us that data overwhelmingly confirms that children born to their married parents have much better outcomes than children born to single mothers. The data indicates that children born to married parents are “significantly more likely to be on track” at every life stage than children who are born to unmarried parents. Children who are “on track” are those who achieve age-appropriate benchmarks for every stage in life. At the end of elementary school an on-track child has mastered basic math and reading skills, has behavioral competencies that predict later success, has a strong relationship with parents and is in good health.  From elementary school to adulthood the child born to married parents is more likely to be on-track and significantly so than the child born to single or unmarried parents. The report from which I am quoting said that even babies benefit greatly from married parents. A baby born to an unmarried mother is three times more likely to need Medicaid or other government assistance to pay for the delivery of the child and is twice as likely to have received late or no prenatal care. That child is twice as likely to be born prematurely and much more likely to be born at a low birth weight. That child is 14 times more likely to have been fathered by a man not identified on the birth certificate (29% versus 2%). This all serves to illustrate the importance of fathers involved in the upbringing and in the lives of their children but there's a lot more. The data also shows many other problems which present themselves when a father is not involved in the raising of a child. The study shows that the absence of a father leads to children who report feeling abandoned, struggling with their emotions, and experiencing self-loathing, increased behavioral problems, poor academic performance, much higher rates of delinquency, youth crime, promiscuity, teen pregnancy, drug and alcohol abuse, and homelessness. If that were not all fatherless children are at greater risk of suffering physical, emotional, and sexual abuse and many times more likely to experience physical and emotional maltreatment with the risk of fatal abuse 100 times greater. The report from the Institute for Family Studies concludes that there is a growing list of disadvantages for children in households without fathers but the report concludes that current U.S. welfare policies tend to encourage fatherlessness. The current policies subsidize unmarried parenting by paying for prenatal care, delivery and postnatal care while allowing the men who fathered the children to escape accountability. The authors of the article conclude that as a society, and especially our churches we have to start recognizing the value of fatherhood again. Our education system in general seems to be failing right now and the belief is that our moral standards have fallen first and a large part of that failing is how we view fathers. The poverty rate in the black and Hispanic communities lowers by 80% when the parents are married. So, why wouldn't fathers want to remain with the children they fathered. Why wouldn't people want to get married and remain married if the statistics I just recited are true. That's a good question but it seems that our society now sets up marriage to fail from the outset. There are many exceptions to that such as mine for example. I'm in the 49th year of my marriage and many people ask me how I do it because they recognize that lifetime commitment is unusual enough to deserve explanation. To continue the point of absent fathers and no marriage I reviewed a recent report done by The American Enterprise Institute in which the authors looked at the issue from a purely economic standpoint. The report was entitled; “Land of Opportunity: Advancing the American Dream.” From their report I learned that one of the chief things causing failure or at least lack of success is the gap between married and non-married Americans. In the middle of the last century and I mean the 1900's, one in 20 children were born out of wedlock. Now it's two in five. America has the world's highest rate of children living in single parent homes: 23% in the U.S. against 7% internationally. Forty percent of millennials from intact, two-parent families graduated from college and 77 % achieved middle class incomes or higher. For those who didn't grow up in intact families, only 17% graduated from college and 57% achieved middle class income. They are twice as likely to be incarcerated, even after other socioeconomic factors are considered. Quoting from the article for a moment. “Research using tax-return data suggests that neighborhoods with high rates of single parenthood cultivate lower social mobility, including among kids who themselves are not raised by single parents.”  The conclusion from the research is that absence of fathers on their offspring has very long-term negative effects on the well-being of children. This study concludes that among all races marriage protects against poverty. From a personal perspective I can say that for 46 years I counseled thousands of people in my law office and my conclusion has been that divorce especially for women and their children leads to a life of poverty. Married parents regardless of race and education suffer significantly less poverty than unmarried mothers. Another interesting thing about these reports is that the phenomenon is not happening evenly but it seems to have a self-perpetuating pattern. For example, from 1970 to 2018 marital births dropped by 29 points overall but they dropped 47 points for the bottom education group and just 6 points for the top. From the early 1960's to the late 2010's marriage rates fell by roughly 46 percentage points for the least educated young women compared with 17 points for the most educated which leaves those least able to bear the cost of single parenthood the most likely to experience it. Government, for whatever reason seems to be putting its thumb on the scale to tilt the outcome against marriage. The institution of marriage is obviously the most important factor in raising children and for income mobility, but that is not how the government views it apparently. For example, a couple with two kids, with each parent earning $30,000 receives around $5000 in earned income tax credits benefits if they remain unmarried. They lose all the benefits if they marry which is in effect a tax on marriage. Medicaid, housing vouchers and SNAP benefits all phase out and punish couples who get married whereas they do not if the couples live together without marriage. It seems that careful research keeps finding the same conclusion regarding economic success and opportunities for children despite efforts to debunk it. In conclusion, I would like to thank the occasion that is Father's Day for the opportunity to be honored by my wife and our daughter. In addition, it gives me the opportunity to talk about something besides war and the opportunity to put into words something that I have observed over a very long legal career. Speaking of families, I have a family obligation next week so there is no Castle Report next week. Finally, folks, may God bless you and your families. If you can't visit your father on Sunday, at least give him a call because he will be so glad you did. At least that's the way I see it, Until next time folks, This is Darrell Castle, Thanks for listening.

In this episode, Pam breaks down the “P” in her V.I.P. Method: Proposal. She explains why one of the fastest ways designers undercharge is by pricing too soon, before the real scope, timeline, client expectations, builder responsibilities, and level of support are fully understood. Whether the request comes from a client or a builder, vague language like “we just need help with selections” can hide a much bigger responsibility. Pam shares why asking clarifying questions does not make you look inexperienced...it makes you look professional, in control, and more like a business owner. You'll learn why your proposal should not be a reaction to a vague request, but a clear recommendation based on the opportunity you have shaped before you price it.Ready to stop waiting for better opportunities and start creating access to them?Join me for my FREE live workshop, The V.I.P. Path to Your Highest Design Fee, where I'll show you the three shifts that help designers get seen, invited, and paid for bigger design projects.Wednesday 6/24, 12pm Eastern.

In 1968, after the first manned mission to orbit the moon, the Rebbe taught that even a lunar expedition contains lessons in avodas Hashem. Quoting the Baal Shem Tov, the Rebbe reminded us that everything a person sees or hears must become a lesson in serving Hashem.So what can we learn from a Knicks championship?This shiur takes the drama of the season, the missed shots, the hustle plays, the OG Anunoby block, the impossible comeback, the trust in role players, the timeout that should have been called, and the fifty-three-year drought and turns it into a powerful mussar message.A mistake is only a failure if you stop running after it happens. Greatness is often one more inch of effort. Confidence is built when nobody is watching. A healthy life is constructed, not collected. A timeout is not weakness; it is refusing to let panic coach the team. And a long drought does not mean the story is over.

This show has been flagged as Clean by the host. In his early days as a writer, Heinlein wrote his stories in the context of a shared universe that he called the Future History. These were mostly short stories at first, with hte occasional novella. But they inclode some great stories. The Future History, Part 1 One thing Heinlein became well known for was his Future History. This placed many of his stories in a common framework of a future environment, and allowed events from one story to influence events in other stories. Here is what he had to say about it, in a post I found on the Heinlein Society Facebook site: “I never “created” or “invented” a “Future History.” On April Fool's Day 1939 I started to write commercially; by the middle of August I had written 8 shorts & a serial. As 5 of these items were more or less to the same fictional background, I found that I was continually having to check back to keep from tripping over my own feet. So I took an old navigation chart, about 3×4 feet, turned it over, made the time scale vertical, then set up 5 columns: stories, characters, technical data, sociological, remarks. Then I checked those first 5 stories, filled data into proper columns at the proper height for the fictional date—and continued to do this with other stories later. The chart was on the righthand wall near my elbow and was unusually messy as I never took the chart down to add to it—just reached over and scrawled on it.” Source: https://www.facebook.com/HeinleinSociety/posts/i-never-created-or-invented-a-future-history-on-april-fools-day-1939-i-started-t/1092968002874634/ One thing that became clear as his Future History developed is that he was not looking at our future exactly. He was very clear in his mind that he was writing fiction, and not issuing prophecies. If you are reading it today, it is best to think of this as a kind of alternate timeline, and this is something that holds true through a lot of his work. Even in his later novels, which were never formally part of his Future History, he would mention events from that past group of works, which may implicitly incorporate them. But this is an area where scholars are in disagreement as to which if the later novels, if any, should be incorporated. And there were unwritten stories that appeared on the chart that would have given further background to the stories that were written. They were stories Heinlein seems to have intended to write at some point, but never got around to writing. You can get more information about this in his book Revolt in 2100. The Future History stories were initially collected primarily in three books: The Man Who Sold the Moon (1950), The Green Hills of Earth (1951), and Revolt in 2100 (1953). Each of them fleshes out this hypothetical world in different ways. The first one, The Man Who Sold The Moon, introduces us to a businessman named D.D. Harriman, who is obsessed with going to the moon. But he thinks it should be done by private enterprise rather than by government. So he concocts a scheme to do this. He promotes a legal theory that the rights to the moon belong to the countries that it directly flies over, sort of like air rights taken to infinity. Then he uses the chaos of competing interests to throw this into the United Nations, and then gets the U.N. to give him the rights. He finally gets to launch a mission to set up a Moon base, but cannot join the expedition because the corporation considers him too valuable to risk. In a sequel story, Requiem, he does get to the moon just in time to die there. Heinlein was never above writing a tear-jerker. Of course, the book has other stories not linked to D.D. Harriman. Heinlein's fist story, Life-Line, is also collected here. And his second story, Let There Be Light, anticipates the development of solar power panels, but similarly to Life-Line, this earns the enmity of corporate interest, in the form of the Power Syndicate. The Roads Must Roll postulates moving roadways in the future, but the story really is about the sociology of technology in the future. And Blowups Happen, originally from 1940, anticipates nuclear fission as a power source, but it proves to be dangerous. They claim that the craters on the moon were really caused by a series of explosions to reactors that wiped out an earlier civilization. So they move the reactor into space for safety. And this feeds back into The Man Who Sold The Moon when this reactor in space blows up. In these early stories we can already see that Heinlein has a complex view of society. In Life-Line and Let There Be Light corporate power is the villain of the story, and some of this also shows up in Blowups Happen. But in The Man Who Sold The Moon we see that private enterprise is preferred to government action. I think the way this can be reconciled is to see that Heinlein is always concerned with individual personal freedom and opposed to anything that might endanger that, whether from too much government or too powerful corporate interests. The Green Hills of Earth contains the story of the same name, which concerns a former space engineer, Rhysling, now blinded by radiation and unemployable, who is also a poet. And one of his poems has that title. The crew of Apollo 15 named a crater on the moon “Rhysling”, and they planned to read a bit of it at the crater, but those trips could get very busy. Still, as they were getting ready to leave the moon there was this exchange. Note that Allen is the Capcom, and Scott and Jones are the astronauts : “Allen: As the space poet Rhysling (the blind poet in Robert Heinlein's The Green Hills of Earth) would say, we're ready for you to “come back again to the homes of men on the cool green hills of Earth.” [Scott – “That's from the Green Hills of Earth. That's one we talked about before the flight. Have you read that one?”] [Jones – “Oh, yeah! That was a favorite when I was a kid. Had you read it?”] [Scott – “Sure. (Quoting from memory): We pray for one last landingon the globe that gave us birthTo rest our eyes on fleecy skiesand the cool green hills of Earth.” Although two of the stories in this collection were older, from 1941, most of them are from 1948 and 1949. And there is a reason for that. On December 7, 1941, the United States found itself at war with Imperial Japan, and few days later Nazi Germany. Coming from a family that had fought in every American war you would expect Heinlein to get involved somehow. He could not enlist due to his medical retirement from the Navy, but since he had an engineering background so he became a civilian employee at the Philadelphia Navy Yard, where he was joined by fellow science fiction writers Isaac Asimov and L. Sprague de Camp. A nice retelling of this can be found at Kirkus Reviews, and Asimov also discusses this in his biography. The upshot is that there is a gap of about 5 years when Heinlein did not publish anything. It is also notable that Heinlein by this point had escaped from the pulp science fiction magazines and gotten published in what were called the “slicks', so-called because the paper they were printed on was slick and higher quality than the pulps. His stories began to be published in places like The Saturday Evening Post, Argosy Magazine, and Town & Country. And these outlets paid higher rates than the pulps, a significant matter for any writer. Heinlein always maintained that the only reason anyone would write was to make money. And the stories were getting to be quite good as well. Delilah and the Space Rigger (1949) tells the story of a woman who joins a construction crew on a space station and faces discrimination, but wins out in the end, which was pretty progressive for the time, but not atypical for Heinlein. Space Jockey is a fairly pedestrian story about a rocket pilot dealing with his every day life. But The Long Watch is an important story to Heinlein's view of the important things in life. A young officer is assigned to duty on the lunar base, where there are nuclear weapons stored. His superiors want to stage a coup, using those weapons, which can threaten the Earth while being beyond the reach of retaliation. The young officer sacrifices himself to prevent their plot from succeeding, and becomes recognized in a death as a great hero. And this becomes part of the background to a later juvenile novel Space Cadet, as well as being referenced occasionally in other stories, so you can see that he regarded it as an important statement. Gentlemen, Be Seated is a cute little story about a man who saves people when a leak happens in a tunnel on the Moon by plugging the leak with his rear end. The Black Pits of Luna is little thing about a boy scout who is able to rescue his little brother, but it foreshadows the Juvenile novels he later wrote. It's Great To Be Back! is about a couple who have moved to the Moon, but continually find fault with the living arrangements. They finally decide to go back to Earth, but discover that it was not really the place they had remembered, and they then return to the Moon, which they now realize is home. -We Also Walk Dogs is a gem of a story concerning a company called General Services that basically does things for their clients. Their advertising slogan is “Want somebody murdered? Then DON'T call General Services. But for anything else, call…. It Pays!” They deal a few different problems in this story, but the main one is the development of anti-gravity, and it features a Chinese porcelain bowl. Ordeal in Space is about a spaceman who has an accident that gives him a fear of heights and washed him out of space. But he has to face his fear when he needs to rescue a kitten from the 35th floor. One thing about Heinlein is that he was a firm and devoted cat fancier, so it no accident that a kitten is the one that has to be rescued. And the final story, Logic of Empire, he discusses the development of slavery in the Venus colony as a natural consequence of machinery being expensive and humans being cheap. And in this story there is a background reference to Nehemiah Scudder, who will soon be important in the Future History. One of the things that is worthy of a brief discussion at this point is exemplified by the story Logic of Empire, and that is the reference to the Venus colony. We now know that Venus can best be described as hellish, with crushing air pressure and temperatures high enough to melt metals. The best designed landers can last no more than minutes before being destroyed. But this was not known when Heinlein was writing these early stories. The prevailing view at that time was that Venus was shrouded in clouds because it was very wet and swampy, so that is what Heinlein went with. Similarly his Mars had canals and was inhabited. You just have to go with it in these stories, as you have to do with so much of Golden Age science Fiction, let alone pre-Golden Age. Links: https://www.facebook.com/HeinleinSociety/posts/i-never-created-or-invented-a-future-history-on-april-fools-day-1939-i-started-t/1092968002874634/ https://www.amazon.com/Man-Who-Sold-Moon/dp/0671578634 https://www.amazon.com/Green-Hills-Earth-Robert-Heinlein/dp/0671578537 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0011GBTKM/ https://www.kirkusreviews.com/news-and-features/articles/asimov-de-camp-and-heinlein-naval-aviation-experim/ https://www.palain.com/science-fiction/the-golden-age/robert-a-heinlein/the-future-history-part-1/ Provide feedback on this episode.

When Fullerton Tool started down the e-commerce path, they weren't trying to build a custom platform. They were trying to solve customer problems. In this episode, Beth Bauer and Tim Roenicke share how a website that initially focused on inventory visibility and product search gradually evolved into a business-critical tool for quoting, ordering, customer service and distributor support. One of the most interesting parts of the conversation is how often customer behavior shaped the direction of development. Search functionality led to quoting. Quoting led to new workflows. Distributor feedback led to new features. Internal teams began using the same tools customers were using. Over time, the platform became less about e-commerce and more about removing friction from the buying process. We discuss: The lessons learned from an early failed attempt at e-commerceWhy product search became the foundation for everything elseHow instant quoting helped speed up sales conversations The importance of customer feedback loopsWhy some distributors embraced the platform while others resisted itThe realities of supporting a custom system in-houseWhat manufacturers should consider before deciding to build or buy This is a conversation about e-commerce, but it's really a conversation about understanding customers and designing digital experiences around the way they actually work. ABOUT IMC LIVE IMC Live is the interactive webinar series from the Industrial Marketing Collective — created for marketers at manufacturing companies. Each session is designed to help you connect with peers, sharpen your skills and drive measurable results in your work.

By Doug Green “EnvisionDX helps you from the entire lifecycle — from adding a new site and getting a quote going, all the way through service delivery, monitoring and management.” In this Technology Reseller News Podcast, I spoke with Laura Lehman, Director of Digital Experience Product Management at GTT, about GTT EnvisionDX and how the platform is changing the way enterprises and partners quote, order and manage complex networking and security services. For enterprise IT teams and channel partners, one of the persistent challenges in global networking has been fragmentation. Quoting new services, validating site addresses, checking availability, managing installs and monitoring service performance have often required multiple systems, manual processes and repeated follow-up. Lehman explained that EnvisionDX was built to bring those workflows into a single digital experience. The platform provides visibility across the full lifecycle of a customer's network services, from initial quote through delivery and ongoing management. A key part of the discussion focused on real-time information. EnvisionDX allows users to see site-level details, service status, utilization and other operational data in one place. That matters because enterprise networks are increasingly distributed, with customers managing multiple locations, providers, security requirements and service types. Lehman also discussed one of the most common pain points in telecom quoting: address validation. EnvisionDX uses multiple address-validation tools, map-based views and latitude/longitude data to help users confirm exactly where a service is needed. The system allows a user to adjust a location pin on a map, helping improve quoting accuracy and reduce the risk of rework later in the process. The platform also highlights GTT's use of AI-powered tools to streamline partner and customer workflows. EnvisionDX supports more automated quoting and ordering processes, while giving users clearer visibility into the location, service and operational details that often determine whether a deployment goes smoothly. For partners, the result is a faster, more transparent quoting process. For enterprises, the benefit is greater confidence that services are being quoted, ordered and delivered based on accurate location and site-level information. The broader message is that enterprise networking is moving away from fragmented service portals and manual workflows toward unified digital platforms. EnvisionDX is GTT's effort to simplify that experience, giving customers and partners a clearer view of what they have, what they need and what is happening across their network. Learn more at: https://www.gtt.net/

This show has been flagged as Explicit by the host. New hosts There were no new hosts this month. Last Month's Shows Id Day Date Title Host 4630 Fri 2026-05-01 Playing Civilization V, Part 11 Ahuka 4631 Mon 2026-05-04 HPR Community News for April 2026 HPR Volunteers 4632 Tue 2026-05-05 Hackerpublic Radio New Years Eve Show 2026 Episode 6 Honkeymagoo 4633 Wed 2026-05-06 Ham Radio Licence Lee 4634 Thu 2026-05-07 Upgrade Failsause operat0r 4635 Fri 2026-05-08 What did I do at work today? Part 3 Section 1 Lee 4636 Mon 2026-05-11 7 seconds memory Antoine 4637 Tue 2026-05-12 UNIX Curio #6 - at and batch Vance 4638 Wed 2026-05-13 Simple Podcasting - Episode 3 - Analyzing and Filtering Whiskeyjack 4639 Thu 2026-05-14 NLUUG Spring Conference 2026 Ken Fallon 4640 Fri 2026-05-15 Robert A. Heinlein Ahuka 4641 Mon 2026-05-18 Technical Dutch Open Source Event (T-DOSE) Ken Fallon 4642 Tue 2026-05-19 Hackerpublic Radio New Years Eve Show 2026 Episode 7 Honkeymagoo 4643 Wed 2026-05-20 HPR Beer Garden 13 - Triple IPA Kevie 4644 Thu 2026-05-21 Response to comments on HPR4424: Newsboat... Archer72 4645 Fri 2026-05-22 ZERO HOUR: FRIDAY AFTERNOON APK HACKING operat0r 4646 Mon 2026-05-25 Mobile Gaming Elsbeth 4647 Tue 2026-05-26 UNIX Curio #7 - Compression Vance 4648 Wed 2026-05-27 Simple Podcasting - Episode 4 - Audio Analysis Fun Whiskeyjack 4649 Thu 2026-05-28 What did I do at work today? Part 3 Section 2 Lee 4650 Fri 2026-05-29 Playing Civilization V, Part 12 Ahuka Comments this month Past shows hpr4424 (2025-07-17) "How I use Newsboat for Podcasts and Reddit" by Archer72. أحمد المحمودي said: "How did I find HPR" (2026-05-12 17:16:07) candycanearter07 said: "Re: How did I find HPR" (2026-05-12 19:36:04) hpr4502 (2025-11-04) "Cheap Yellow Display Project Part 3: Reverse beacon network " by Trey. Archer72 said: "Morse code" (2026-05-19 15:00:39) hpr4567 (2026-02-03) "Movie Recommendations for Hackers" by Deltaray. Antoine said: "Some watched!" (2026-05-27 03:33:12) hpr4587 (2026-03-03) "UNIX Curio #1 - Shell Archives" by Vance. Dave Morriss said: "Great reminder! I had forgotten shar" (2026-05-07 18:18:05) Vance said: "Color printing" (2026-05-08 22:02:23) hpr4607 (2026-03-31) "UNIX Curio #3 - basename and dirname" by Vance. Vance said: "Correction" (2026-05-12 01:03:12) hpr4618 (2026-04-15) "Simple Podcasting - Episode 2 - Basic Filtering" by Whiskeyjack. Henrik Hemrin said: "Generating sine wave" (2026-05-14 19:59:46) Whiskeyjack said: "Reply to Henrik Hemrin on Sine Waves in HPR4618" (2026-05-15 15:22:16) hpr4627 (2026-04-28) "UNIX Curio #5 - Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!" by Vance. Steve Barnes said: "Thanks for the context!" (2026-05-21 05:28:05) hpr4628 (2026-04-29) "Nuclear Power Technology Follow Up" by Whiskeyjack. Antoine said: "o/" (2026-05-17 00:24:23) Whiskeyjack said: "Reply to Antoine on HPR4628" (2026-05-17 18:08:18) This month's shows hpr4631 (2026-05-04) "HPR Community News for April 2026" by HPR Volunteers. Whiskeyjack said: "Response to Ken Fallon in HPR4631 Community News" (2026-05-04 05:13:02) candycanearter07 said: "new episodes" (2026-05-04 18:47:39) Ken Fallon said: "new candycanearter07 episodes" (2026-05-05 09:00:00) أحمد المحمودي said: "Thanks for the encouragement" (2026-05-12 17:18:20) hpr4634 (2026-05-07) "Upgrade Failsause" by operat0r. YourName said: "Why is the audio so bad OMG sorry" (2026-05-06 20:05:43) Ken Fallon said: "Already reported and fixed" (2026-05-06 20:35:49) hpr4637 (2026-05-12) "UNIX Curio #6 - at and batch" by Vance. candycanearter07 said: "still useful!" (2026-05-13 03:43:37) norrist said: "at for scheduled reboots" (2026-05-16 19:41:04) Vance said: "Good points" (2026-05-17 03:03:47) Whiskeyjack said: "At and batch in HPR4637" (2026-05-17 18:35:11) hpr4640 (2026-05-15) "Robert A. Heinlein" by Ahuka. Antoine said: "Nice tips" (2026-05-17 00:22:01) Kevin O'Brien said: "I enjoyed doing it" (2026-05-17 19:14:19) hpr4646 (2026-05-25) "Mobile Gaming" by Elsbeth. candycanearter07 said: "my opinion of mobile gaming" (2026-05-27 00:24:58) hpr4647 (2026-05-26) "UNIX Curio #7 - Compression" by Vance. xmanmonk said: "Great Series" (2026-05-27 00:29:32) candycanearter07 said: "thoughts" (2026-05-27 13:20:13) Mailing List discussions Policy decisions surrounding HPR are taken by the community as a whole. This discussion takes place on the Mailing List which is open to all HPR listeners and contributors. The discussions are open and available on the HPR server under Mailman. The threaded discussions this month can be found here: https://lists.hackerpublicradio.com/pipermail/hpr/2026-May/thread.html Events Calendar With the kind permission of LWN.net we are linking to The LWN.net Community Calendar. Quoting the site: This is the LWN.net community event calendar, where we track events of interest to people using and developing Linux and free software. Clicking on individual events will take you to the appropriate web page. Provide feedback on this episode.

Darrell Castle talks about the resignation of Tulsi Gabbard from her position as Director of National Intelligence, and why she made the decision to resign. Was it because of her husband’s illness or something else. Transcription / Notes TULSI'S GONE Hello, this is Darrell Castle with today's Castle Report. This is Friday the 29th day of May in the year of our Lord 2026. I will be talking about the resignation of Tulsi Gabbard from her position as Director of National Intelligence, and about why Tulsi made the decision to resign. Was her decision because of her husband's illness or was it something else. Tulsi never seemed to fit into Washington like a typical Washington politician. She never seemed willing to lie and cheat her way to the top as is typical of Washington. From the beginning of her prominence, she seemed a little too honest and too forthright for Washington politics. Nevertheless, she was a politician having served as a Democrat in congress from the state of Hawaii. She left congress and ran for president as a Democrat but lost in the primary to Joe Biden. She became disenchanted with the Democrat Party and decided to back President Trump in his run for that office. President Trump appointed her Director of National Intelligence, in theory the most important national security position in the country. The U.S. now has 18 intelligence agencies or departments if you count their various components and they all report to the Director of National Intelligence, but once in the office I imagine that the DNI found out who holds the real power in the intelligence world. When I learned a few weeks ago that the CIA had apparently broken into, raided, or whatever you want to call the CIA's visit to their boss's office, I knew Tulsi would soon be gone. Whistleblower James Erdman blew his whistle in congress and testified that the CIA had “seized” documents from their secure area in the office of the DNI. Some of the files they seized related to the assassination, or perhaps their assassination, of JFK. They apparently also took the files related to MKULTRA which was and probably is the CIA's experimental program designed to alter and control human behavior through the use of mind-altering drugs and torture. They sought to and apparently did learn the art of mind control including control of whole populations through these experiments. There are people who exist now who are suing the CIA in an effort to get some answers to the questions of what happened to their minds and the minds of their parents because of MKULTRA. That's not all they got because apparently they got the files on “Havana Syndrome” in which U.S. diplomats and others stationed in Havana and other places were apparently subjected to some kind of mind-altering rays. In response to the CIA raid, Representative Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL) and James Comer (R-KY) chairman of the house Oversight Committee, sent a preservation letter to the CIA demanding that all evidence related to the taken or stolen material be preserved. I imagine the CIA got a good laugh over that letter as they endeavored to show naive members of Congress who actually runs this country. Apparently someone spoke to someone and explained the facts of life as it exists in Washington because when that letter of preservation became public people started to backtrack their statements. Even Erdman, the whistleblower said no I didn't say it was a raid instead I just said CIA refused to comply with “lawful oversight and documented everts to circumvent oversight.” He testified to Congress that not only did CIA refuse to comply with the directives of the ODNI Director's Initiatives Group (DIG) investigations into the origins of COVID-19 and other “phenomena” but retaliated against those who did not support their own conclusions. Quoting long-term CIA agent Erdman, “The CIA illegally monitored the computer and phone usage of DIG personnel, their investigations, and contact with whistleblowers, which significantly impacted Director Gabbard's implementation of several Eo's issued during this administration and tasked to the DIG.” In addition, “when the DIG ceased operations, the CIA also took back 40 boxes of JFK files and MKULTRA files being processed for declassification by DNI Gabbard.” The CIA's spying was referenced as tracking every keystroke of DIG personnel as they processed files directed by presidential EO to be released or unclassified. These files included files concerning JFK, RFK, and MLK assassinations, the origins of COVID-19, Crossfire Hurricane, The Biden Administration's domestic surveillance, Anomalous Health Incidents (AHI) and Unidentified Aerial Phenomena. So, just speculating here folks, but trying to do it with logic I think it went something like this. The President appoints this intelligent and experienced, but most importantly honest woman to head the nation's intelligence organizations. He then says that as he campaigned on a pledge to be transparent and release long classified files he issues an Executive Order (EO) to that effect. Tulsi, his DNI, who most likely took the job based on a promise to be forthcoming, sets out to obey the President's EO. She appoints a working group from among those in the office of the DNI which she calls DIG to sort through the files to determine if there was anything that should not be released. The CIA completely ignored that  report to DNI which was Tulsi and in fact they ignore or refuse to abide by the direct written orders of the President of the United States. They break into, or raid, if that is better, her office, take the files and even congress can't get them back. My conclusion, then, is that this case reveals as clearly as anything has who or what runs this country. I knew when I heard the story of what happened and looked into it that Tulsi would not be able to remain in the administration. Who would want to be director of the office that controls American intelligence agencies, all 18 of them, if one of those agencies was completely exempt from you, their boss's orders, and apparently didn't even follow the orders of the President. So, is that why she resigned because she didn't say that it was. In fact, she didn't complain about the President's inability or unwillingness to control the CIA but instead she thanked him and the American people for the opportunity to serve. In her letter she cited her husband Abraham and his diagnosis of a “extremely rare form of bone cancer” as the reason. She said he had stood by her every step of the way including when her Army guard unit was deployed to East Africa and through her political campaigns so she wanted to be with him full-time during such a difficult time. In 18 months as DNI she restructured the office, cutting its size and saving the American people more than $700 million per year. She launched many investigations and sought the release of previously classified material related to the programs previously listed. She has declassified more than 500,000 pages thus far. Her National Counterterrorism Center stopped thousands of narco-terrorists from entering the country until finally its head, Joe Kent, publicly resigned citing the Iran war as the reason. I saw her interviewed on the Shawn Ryan Podcast the other day and she was very forthright as she normally is. She said that the people who opposed her in her efforts were very intolerant of anyone who believes in God because in their minds they are God. They are the ultimate deciders of right and wrong and their choices are never wrong because they determine what right is. If a person opposes them, even if their boss opposes them, that person is on the way out. She said that before she goes at the end of June she will release many files related to the programs in question. Likely, these files will be released in weekly installments over the weeks of June. Her deputy director, Aaron Lukas, will serve as acting director until a permanent director is appointed. I predict without knowing one way or the other that the new director will have a CIA or perhaps military, meaning ex-General background. Politicians seem to be sweating over the prospect of files related to Crossfire Hurricane or the Russia gate hoax and other weaponization of law programs. I'm just speculating because I admit I don't know but I will wager that Tulsi grew very weary of constantly trying to follow presidential directives and being stymied at every turn while doing so. That type of constant stress is very difficult to bear long term.  Why would the CIA take her JFK files along with the other assassination files. That's a good question isn't it but the answer is very obvious but unsayable in public. Yes I know the assassinations were all done by lone nuts who were killed or prosecuted without any real investigation but nothing to see here folks just move along. Finally, folks, Tulsi seems to be an intelligent, honest woman who loves her country and its people and who puts them before any political party. There aren't many left like her and I for one will miss her. I wish her well. At least that's the way I see it, Until next time folks, This is Darrell Castle, Thanks for listening.

Welcome to the 1st episode of the newly rebranded podcast: PERMISSION SALES In this episode, host Charles Specht talks all about "permission" and how you can obtain that permission from your prospects. Without permission the best you can hope for is 2nd Place. Permission is about giving the prospect what they want so that they'll give you what you want.  You want exclusive access, to become the incumbent agent, and for the prospect to choose you. And nothing says you have my permission like a signed Broker of Record Letter. Without permission it's extremely difficult to win in sales. That's why it's so important to define permission, know what it is, and know how to get it. Be sure to subscribe now to the Permission Sales Podcast. Key Topics: The rebrand from Millionaire Insurance Producer Podcast to the Permission Sales Podcast Seth Godin's "Tribes" and the philosophy of finding your people Defining permission: giving prospects what they want to get what you need A signed Broker of Record Letter as the clearest expression of permission Quoting without permission and why agents lose even when priced lower The Find Your 50 framework for targeting the right client count Working commission math backward to reach a $500K or million-dollar book Three to three-and-a-half years as the timeline to a full book Permission at every level, prospects, carriers, and underwriters all require it Thinking like your prospect, not a producer, to start gathering commission Reach out to  Charles Specht Visit us at: Permission Network Permission Sales Podcast on LinkedIn Permission University Courses & Curriculum Permission Producer School Chief Sales Officer Produced by PodSquad.fm

Discover 40 everyday phrases you've likely used your whole life—without realizing they come straight from the King James version of the Holy Bible. In this fully illustrated episode of the Bible Made Easy Podcast, Brother George shares 40 powerful Bible sayings that have become part of everyday speech—from “You reap what you sow” to “The blind leading the blind” and many more. This engaging visual journey reveals the Biblical origins behind common idioms, metaphors, and expressions we use daily. Each phrase is brought to life with clear illustrations and KJV scripture, helping you understand both the meaning and context of these timeless sayings. #Kingjamesbible #Biblesayings #biblicalphrases #christianteaching #biblestudy #idiomsinenglish #kjvbible scriptures, #bibleexplained   Bible Made Easy Podcast: Bible based lessons through the lens of God's eternal love for humanity and His desire to reconcile all things to Himself. 

Denis Dyli has spent 13 years building Shopify stores for the businesses nobody wants to talk about: industrial suppliers, janitorial distributors, pipe manufacturers. The unsexy stuff. He's now a Shopify Platinum Partner, and he's turning all that pain into an AI-powered deal room that converts messy email RFQs into structured quotes in minutes, not weeks. We get into why B2B and wholesale are fundamentally different buying experiences, how mid-market manufacturers ($20M-$100M) are the most underserved segment in ecommerce, and why your B2B quoting process probably still feels like 1997. SPONSORS Swym - Wishlists, Back in Stock alerts, & more getswym.com/kurt Cleverific - Smart order editing for Shopify cleverific.com Zipify - Build high-converting sales funnels zipify.com/KURT LINKS Uncap: https://uncap.com Denis Dyli on LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/denisdyli WORK WITH KURT Apply for Shopify Help ethercycle.com/apply See Our Results ethercycle.com/work Free Newsletter kurtelster.com The Unofficial Shopify Podcast is hosted by Kurt Elster and explores the stories behind successful Shopify stores. Get actionable insights, practical strategies, and proven tactics from entrepreneurs who've built thriving ecommerce businesses.

This show has been flagged as Explicit by the host. New hosts There were no new hosts this month. Last Month's Shows Id Day Date Title Host 4608 Wed 2026-04-01 Simple Podcasting - Episode 1 - Preparation and Recording Whiskeyjack 4609 Thu 2026-04-02 Proper Date Format Ahuka 4610 Fri 2026-04-03 Playing Civilization V, Part 10 Ahuka 4611 Mon 2026-04-06 HPR Community News for March 2026 HPR Volunteers 4612 Tue 2026-04-07 Hackerpublic Radio New Years Eve Show 2026 Episode 4 Honkeymagoo 4613 Wed 2026-04-08 Adding functionality to an Odoo installation Jeroen Baten 4614 Thu 2026-04-09 Dauug|18: Faster Than a '286, but Inspectable Like a Soroban Marc W. Abel 4615 Fri 2026-04-10 Clicking through an audit Lee 4616 Mon 2026-04-13 Thoughts about age control and further suggestions Trollercoaster 4617 Tue 2026-04-14 UNIX Curio #4 - Archiving Files Vance 4618 Wed 2026-04-15 Simple Podcasting - Episode 2 - Basic Filtering Whiskeyjack 4619 Thu 2026-04-16 HPR Beer Garden 12 - Baltic Porter Kevie 4620 Fri 2026-04-17 The Second Doctor, Part 1 Ahuka 4621 Mon 2026-04-20 Android volume control help operat0r 4622 Tue 2026-04-21 Hackerpublic Radio New Years Eve Show 2026 Episode 5 Honkeymagoo 4623 Wed 2026-04-22 A brief infodump on the Broadcast Address and Routing Jon The Nice Guy 4624 Thu 2026-04-23 Cheap Yellow Display Project Part 7: GUI Trying a Simple Hello World Trey 4625 Fri 2026-04-24 Site Specific Browsers Lee 4626 Mon 2026-04-27 Cable Management / PC Speakers operat0r 4627 Tue 2026-04-28 UNIX Curio #5 - Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! Vance 4628 Wed 2026-04-29 Nuclear Power Technology Follow Up Whiskeyjack 4629 Thu 2026-04-30 What did I do at work today? Part 2 Lee Comments this month Past shows hpr4424 (2025-07-17) "How I use Newsboat for Podcasts and Reddit" by Archer72. Ken Fallon said: "Summary of findings" (2026-04-05 14:09:24) Archer72 said: "Not fixed from أحمد المحمودي" (2026-04-25 11:02:26) hpr4569 (2026-02-05) "Kiosk with guest mode on Linux" by Klaatu. 0xf10e said: "Preconfiguring browsers profiles? and re-replies ;)" (2026-04-17 09:56:49) hpr4585 (2026-02-27) "mpv util scripts" by candycanearter. candycanearter07 said: "perpetually updated script(s)" (2026-04-14 20:41:28) hpr4596 (2026-03-16) "Adding voice-over audio track created using text to speech on the movie subtitles" by Ken Fallon. Windigo said: "Great usability win" (2026-04-24 19:33:03) hpr4600 (2026-03-20) "The First Doctor, Part 5" by Ahuka. Kevin O'Brien said: "Maybe I will" (2026-04-12 16:16:00) hpr4603 (2026-03-25) "On the Erosion of Freedom in Open Source Software" by HopperMCS. Trollercoaster said: "Hopper did time traveling!" (2026-04-09 05:46:52) hpr4605 (2026-03-27) "Lee locks down his wifey poo" by Elsbeth. Lee said: "Quotation" (2026-04-05 15:59:54) Paulj said: "Thanks!" (2026-04-06 16:44:28) hpr4606 (2026-03-30) "My Nerdy Childhood: From Floppy Disks to Dial-Up Dreams" by Trollercoaster. Trollercoaster said: "Damn you Nerdy Nostaliga!" (2026-04-06 15:28:34) This month's shows hpr4608 (2026-04-01) "Simple Podcasting - Episode 1 - Preparation and Recording" by Whiskeyjack. Archer72 said: "Listening ahead" (2026-04-01 10:06:46) Whiskeyjack said: "Reply to Archer72 on HPR4608" (2026-04-01 12:27:46) Reto said: "It reminds me about Solocast" (2026-04-03 07:49:58) Whiskeyjack said: "Response to Reto comment on HPR4608" (2026-04-04 18:19:25) Whiskeyjack said: "Further response to Reto comment on HPR4608" (2026-04-04 22:21:38) hpr4609 (2026-04-02) "Proper Date Format" by Ahuka. Jim DeVore said: "It is the only proper date format" (2026-04-04 14:19:15) candycanearter07 said: "sensical date format" (2026-04-06 09:37:47) hpr4611 (2026-04-06) "HPR Community News for March 2026" by HPR Volunteers. candycanearter07 said: "misattributed comment" (2026-04-06 03:24:30) Ken Fallon said: "Fixed" (2026-04-06 13:50:17) hpr4614 (2026-04-09) "Dauug|18: Faster Than a '286, but Inspectable Like a Soroban" by Marc W. Abel. Jim DeVore said: "Is this the best approach for privacy?" (2026-04-12 03:15:44) candycanearter07 said: "interesting!" (2026-04-13 16:43:22) hpr4616 (2026-04-13) "Thoughts about age control and further suggestions" by Trollercoaster. Antoine said: "'Jus'do the age verification'" (2026-04-20 01:37:33) candycanearter07 said: "good strategy" (2026-04-22 13:24:48) Trollercoaster said: "Looking forward at next steps" (2026-04-25 15:37:22) Antoine said: "Our State. The Invitation." (2026-04-26 23:55:45) hpr4618 (2026-04-15) "Simple Podcasting - Episode 2 - Basic Filtering" by Whiskeyjack. Antoine said: "Applying filters - exp. with declicking - Compression?" (2026-04-20 12:50:09) Whiskeyjack said: "Response to Antoine on de-essing in HPR 4618" (2026-04-22 15:59:57) Vance said: "Click removal" (2026-04-25 14:31:40) Whiskeyjack said: "Reply to Vance in HPR4618 - Click Removal" (2026-04-27 00:48:11) Vance said: "To Whiskeyjack - Click Removal" (2026-04-28 00:43:11) Whiskeyjack said: "Reply to Vance on Click Removal in HPR4618" (2026-04-28 17:16:54) hpr4619 (2026-04-16) "HPR Beer Garden 12 - Baltic Porter" by Kevie. Gan Ainm said: "Störtebeker - again" (2026-04-17 16:37:29) hpr4621 (2026-04-20) "Android volume control help" by operat0r. candycanearter07 said: "intended double entendre?" (2026-04-21 18:58:54) hpr4624 (2026-04-23) "Cheap Yellow Display Project Part 7: GUI Trying a Simple Hello World " by Trey. Ken Fallon said: "Great to hear your success" (2026-04-23 08:36:28) hpr4625 (2026-04-24) "Site Specific Browsers" by Lee. candycanearter07 said: "electron charged opinion" (2026-04-24 03:38:13) hpr4627 (2026-04-28) "UNIX Curio #5 - Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!" by Vance. Antoine said: "kill and killall" (2026-04-29 11:57:27) candycanearter07 said: "killer episode" (2026-04-29 15:14:31) Vance said: "Glad you enjoyed it" (2026-04-29 20:58:44) candycanearter07 said: "Re: Glad you enjoyed it" (2026-04-30 18:58:50) Mailing List discussions Policy decisions surrounding HPR are taken by the community as a whole. This discussion takes place on the Mailing List which is open to all HPR listeners and contributors. The discussions are open and available on the HPR server under Mailman. The threaded discussions this month can be found here: https://lists.hackerpublicradio.com/pipermail/hpr/2026-April/thread.html Events Calendar With the kind permission of LWN.net we are linking to The LWN.net Community Calendar. Quoting the site: This is the LWN.net community event calendar, where we track events of interest to people using and developing Linux and free software. Clicking on individual events will take you to the appropriate web page. Provide feedback on this episode.

A man tried to assassinate the President—and used the words of Jesus to justify it. Quoting “turn the other cheek” and “render unto Caesar,” he argued that violence was necessary. But that's not what Jesus taught.In this video, we break down these passages in context and show how Scripture is being dangerously twisted.

Owning a machine shop sounds great… until you're chasing work, quoting jobs at midnight, dealing with problem customers, and trying to stay profitable while keeping the lights on.Recorded live as a panel session during a Kennametal open house event, Brad from Marvel Machining, Ian from Lakewood Machine & Tool, and Luke from Progressive Turnings / Crusader Machining sit down for a real conversation about the ups and downs of running a shop.They talk about finding work, quoting jobs, when to say no, staying busy vs actually making money, keeping good employees, buying equipment, and the jobs that almost broke them.Whether you're a one-man shop, running a full team, or thinking about starting your own business, there's something in here you'll relate to.Just honest shop talk from people living it every day.

Ever underquoted a job… and instantly regretted it? That sinking feeling isn't just about money—it's your nervous system hijacking your decisions. In this episode, Keith Kalfas breaks down the hidden psychology behind underpricing, why it keeps you stuck, and how to shift from emotional decision-making to data-driven strategy. This isn't about "charging more just because." It's about becoming the kind of operator who knows their numbers—and acts accordingly.   "Math is the path. Strategy beats emotion every time." – Keith Kalfas   What You'll Learn in This Episode: Why underquoting feels like a permanent setback (but isn't) How to separate emotion from business decisions and treat everything as data The shift from "worker mindset" to scientist mindset A simple split-testing strategy to raise your prices without panic How fear-based decisions quietly destroy your income Why habits—not motivation—are the real growth engine   Key Takeaways: Detach from emotion—treat everything as data. Underquoting feels personal, but it's just feedback. When you stop reacting emotionally and start analyzing outcomes like a scientist, you make smarter decisions and improve faster. Fear and neediness are killing your pricing. Operating from survival mode makes you undercharge and repel better opportunities. Confidence comes from numbers and strategy—not desperation. "Math is the path" → raise prices strategically. Know your real numbers, then test higher pricing (especially with new clients). Use systems, packages, and small adjustments to steadily increase income without guessing.   Connect with Keith Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/keithkalfas/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thelandscapingemployeetrap Website: https://www.keithkalfas.com/resources Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@keith-kalfas   Resources and Websites:  Build Your Site: https://www.keithkalfas.com/ReBolt Call Tracking Software: https://www.keithkalfas.com/CallRail Start Getting Leads Now https://www.footbridgemedia.com/keith The Untrapped Alliance: https://www.keithkalfas.com/alliance Resources You Need To Build A Successful Business https://www.keithkalfas.com/resources

It's Friday, March 27th, A.D. 2026. This is The Worldview in 5 Minutes heard on 140 radio stations and at www.TheWorldview.com. I'm Adam McManus. (Adam@TheWorldview.com) By Adam McManus Finnish lawmaker convicted over speaking truth about homosexuality In a narrow 3–2 decision, the Finnish Supreme Court has found parliamentarian Päivi Räsänen guilty of so-called “hate speech” for simply affirming a Biblical understanding of marriage and sexual ethics in a 20-year-old church pamphlet, reports LifeSiteNews.com. Räsänen has been criminally convicted for publishing the 2004 pamphlet for her church, alongside Lutheran Bishop Juhana Pohjola. The conviction is for “making and keeping available to the public a text that insults a group.” She said, “I am shocked and profoundly disappointed that the court has failed to recognize my basic human right to freedom of expression. I stand by the teachings of my Christian faith, and will continue to defend my [right] and every person's right to share their convictions in the public square.” The Finish Supreme Court has imposed criminal fines of several thousand Euros and ruled that the impugned statements must be “removed from public access and destroyed.”   Päivi Räsänen has served as a member of the Finnish Parliament since 1995, and was Minister of the Interior from 2011-2015. She is a medical doctor, mother of five children, and has twelve grandchildren. In a related development, the Finish Supreme Court unanimously acquitted Räsänen for her 2019 Bible verse tweet. Canada's House criminalizes quoting Bible Religious expression is under attack in Canada as well. The majority of Canadian Members of Parliament voted to pass a leftist bill that will criminalize the quotation of Bible verses on homosexual behavior and gender, reports LifeSiteNews.com. Early Wednesday evening, in a 186–137 vote, they passed Bill C-9, which is misnamed the “Combatting Hate Act.” Members of Parliament from the Conservative Party, New Democratic Party, and the Green Party voted against the bill in a rare form of unity among the usually opposing parties. The bill now heads to Canada's rubber-stamp Senate for review. David Cooke with the Campaign Life Coalition said, “With the passage of Bill C-9 in the [Canadian] House, Christians and pro-life advocates will almost certainly face an entirely new level of hostility, as the door swings open to actual persecution under a cloak of supposed legality.” The 186 foolish Members of the Canadian Parliament who voted to criminalize citing Bible verses about sexual perversion would no doubt object to my citation of Leviticus 18:22. It says, “Do not have sexual relations with a man as one does with a woman; that is detestable.” Trump postpones strikes on Iranian energy plants until April 6 On Thursday, President Donald Trump announced on Truth Social that the United States will extend the pause on strikes on Iranian energy plants by an additional 10 days, at the request of the Iranian government, reports CBS News.   On Monday, the president announced a five-day pause on strikes on Iran's energy infrastructure in order to negotiate with Iran. The president said he's extending that pause to the evening of April 7 local time in Tehran.  Trump to sign order to pay TSA agents President Donald Trump plans to sign an order that will pay Transportation Security Administration agents, who have not received a check since the Department of Homeland Security entered a partial shutdown in mid-February, reports The Epoch Times. In a March 26th Truth Social post, he wrote, “I am going to sign an Order instructing the Secretary of Homeland Security, Markwayne Mullin, to immediately pay our TSA Agents in order to address this Emergency Situation, and to quickly stop the Democrat Chaos at the Airports.” More than 3,120 TSA agents, who have not been paid in weeks, called in sick on Wednesday, which prompted long lines to continue at airports across the country. Pennsylvania Democrats have egg on their faces And finally, Pennsylvania House Democrats withdrew consideration of a resolution honoring March as "National Women's Month" after a Republican lawmaker filed an amendment to include the physiological definition of "woman" in the text, report Fox News. What was expected to be a quick, symbolic vote turned into a brief but telling floor moment.  Listen how the Republicans forced the question into the open and Democrats opted to shelve the resolution rather than define what a "woman" is in legislation — leading to an eruption of laughter on the House floor. Democratic House Speaker Joanna McClinton was bringing a rapid-fire succession of bills up for consideration late in Tuesday's session when she asked the clerk to introduce House Resolution 390. McCLINTON: “The Chair recognizes the Majority Leader who calls up House Resolution on page eight of today's House calendar. The clerk will read a summary of the resolution.” CLERK: “A resolution recognizing the month of March 2026, as Women's History Month in Pennsylvania, introduced by Representative Carol Hill-Evans.” McCLINTON: “[Republican] Representative [Aaron] Bernstine offers A02716. Will the House agree to the amendment? On that question, the Chair recognizes the gentleman from Lawrence, maker of the amendment. Representative Bernstein.” BERNSTINE: “Thank you, Madam Speaker. Madam Speaker, this amendment is very straightforward and clear. It defines what a woman actually is, because we do know what that is. Thank you.” What happened next was stunning!  During 30 seconds of silence, Democrats quietly considered the fact that they had been painted into a corner. If they defined what a woman was in order for the proposed Women's History Month to be considered, they would alienate their leftist base which has swallowed the woke transgender agenda -- hook, line and sinker. Put bluntly, Democrats believe that a man, pretending to be a woman, is a woman! There was movement at the dais. So, this is what House Majority Leader Joanna McClinton declared. McCLINTON: “The resolution is temporarily over.” (Republicans laugh out loud on the Pennsylvania House floor) You can hear the Republicans laughing out loud at the utter foolishness of the hypocritical Democrats who want to look like they are championing women but oddly cannot even agree with the biological definition of what a woman is. McClinton immediately turned to the clerk to read the next piece of legislation. In an interview Wednesday, GOP Rep. Bernstine defended his amendment as a common sense measure, saying that defining a woman as having XX chromosomes should not be controversial. The Republican said, "They pulled [the Women's History Month] because they were scared to define what a woman actually is." Jason Gottesman, spokesman for the House Republican Caucus, further told Fox News that "if Democrats want to celebrate what they refuse to define, it is clear they do not take this issue seriously." In Matthew 19:4, Jesus asked, “Haven't you read, that at the beginning the Creator ‘made them male and female?'” Close And that's The Worldview on this Friday, March 27th, in the year of our Lord 2026. Follow us on X or subscribe for free by Spotify, Amazon Music, or by iTunes or email to our unique Christian newscast at www.TheWorldview.com.  Plus, you can get the Generations app through Google Play or The App Store. I'm Adam McManus (Adam@TheWorldview.com). Seize the day for Jesus Christ.

Tonight there are new strikes on the U.S. embassy in Iraq, and the U.S. military dropped 5,000-pound, GPS-guided bombs to blow up Iranian missile sites threatening ships in the Gulf. Back home, top national security official Joe Kent became the first senior administration member to quit over the war. Quoting now from his resignation letter to the president: "Iran posed no imminent threat to our nation, and it is clear that we started this war due to pressure from Israel and its powerful American lobby." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Justin, Senator Howard, and Chris discuss the Iran War, criticism of John Piper for quoting Scripture, and AI. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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