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PopaHALLics #145 "Schemers & Dreamers"In this week's offerings: A businessman trying to con investors, improv actors trying to con criminals, a group hoping to draw attention to black string bands, and cops trying to solve murders despite long odds. Will they succeed or fail? In Theaters:"The Phoenician Scheme." Writer/director Wes Anderson's latest quirky, deadpan, exquisitely shot dark comedy features an industrialist, his estranged daughter, and a Norwegian bug expert trying to swindle his investors when a scheme goes awry. Benicio del Toro, Mia Threapleton, and Michael Cera star, with Tom Hanks, Scarlett Johansson, Bill Murray, Benedict Cumberbatch, Bryan Cranston, and more.Streaming: "Deep Cover," Prime. In this 2025 British action comedy, the police recruit three improv comedy actors (Bryce Dallas Howard, Orlando Bloom, and Nick Mohammed, of "Ted Lasso") for undercover work in London's criminal underworld. They're soon in over their heads. With Sean Bean, Ian McShane, and Paddy Considine."Dept. Q," Netflix. Based on the Danish book series by Jussi Adler-Olson, this British crime thriller series follows an emotionally scarred Scottish detective (Matthew Goode) tasked with solving cold cases. With Chloe Pirrie, Jamie Sives, Leah Byrne, and Kate Dickie."The Sinner," Netflix. Bill Pullman stars as a police detective who investigates crimes committed by unlikely culprits and attempts to uncover their motivations in this USA Network series that ran for four seasons."Don't Get Trouble in Your Mind: The Carolina Chocolate Drops Story," Prime, Hulu, YouTube, and other streaming services. Director John Whitehead's compelling 2016 documentary, newly available streaming, traces the trio's improbable rise to success and the personal tensions that drove them apart.Books:"The Third Coast: When Chicago Built the American Dream," by Thomas Dyja. This extensively researched and well-written history explores post-WWII Chicago's impact on wider America through architecture, electric blues, early television, advertising, and more."Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead," by Olga Tokarczuk and translated from Polish by Antonia Lloyd-Jones. Winner of the Nobel Prize for literature, this "funny, vivid, dangerous and disturbing" novel (Annie Proulx) explores human behavior through a literary murder mystery.Music:PopaHALLics #145 Playlist (Drops) features the old time string band music of the Carolina Chocolate Drops as Fantastic Cat, an indie music supergroup.Click through the links to watch, read about, or listen to what we're discussing.

Title: Schemers, Sharks, and A Snitch Text: Acts 23:12-35 FCF: We often struggle trusting God when enemies surround us. Prop: Because man makes their plans but God guides their steps, we must trust the Lord. Scripture Intro: [Slide 1] Turn in your bible to Acts chapter 23. In a moment we'll begin reading from the LSB starting in verse 12. You can follow along in the pew bible or whatever version you prefer. After Paul narrowly escapes the clutches of the Sanhedrin, Jesus comes to him in the night and comforts him. He tells Paul to have courage because just as he has declared the gospel in Jerusalem he must also go to Rome and do the same. But we are still two and a half years away from Jesus' promise being fulfilled. In the remaining 5 and a half chapters of this book, we will see God's hand of providence working to have His apostle arrive in Rome at precisely the right time for him to be there. An apostle of God is never early, nor is he late, but arrives precisely when God needs him to. And that all begins with the episode today. Because of the events recorded in today's text, Paul's trip to Rome will be put on God's time table. So, let's stand to give honor to and to focus on the reading of the Word of God. Invocation: Sovereign Lord, You know the plans of the wicked. You have seen their devices and You know their hearts. You have measured the pride of men vying for power while they use others to get it. In a world that seems to be spiraling out of control, where the wicked prosper and the righteous fall, You have your eye even on the sparrows. Not one of them falls down dead without Your knowledge and You have ordered all things for the good of Your people – who are far more valuable than the birds. The Son has given us infinite worth by sending the Comforter to indwell us. Father use Your Spirit to give to us insight into Your word today to see Your good plan for Your children … even amid and through the plotting and power grabbing of ungodly men. Open our eyes today we pray in Jesus' name. Amen. Transition: Proverbs 16 kept flitting through my mind as I studied this passage. Let me read that to you now, by way of an introduction, even before we dive into the text of Acts 23. The plans of the heart belong to man, But the answer of the tongue is from Yahweh. 2 All the ways of a man are pure in his own sight, But Yahweh weighs the motives. 3 Commit your works to Yahweh And your plans will be established. 4 Yahweh has made everything for its own purpose, Even the wicked for the day of evil. 5 Everyone who is proud in heart is an abomination to Yahweh; Assuredly, he will not be unpunished. 6 By lovingkindness and truth iniquity is atoned for, And by the fear of Yahweh one turns away from evil. 7 When a man's ways are pleasing to Yahweh, He makes even his enemies to be at peace with him. 8 Better is a little with righteousness Than great produce with injustice. 9 The heart of man plans his way, But Yahweh directs his steps. With these words in mind, look with me at verse 12. I.) Mankind makes their wicked plans in secret, but we must trust the Lord. (12-15) a. [Slide 2] 12 - Now when it was day, the Jews formed a conspiracy and bound themselves under a curse, saying that they would neither eat nor drink until they had killed Paul. 13 - And there were more than forty who formed this scheme. i. Right on the heels of Paul being rescued out of the hands of the Jews… AGAIN… we find that the very next day he is right back in the fire. ii. The first scene of this episode opens with a group of 40 Jews who come up with a plan to do something especially vile. iii. Through our study of the gospel of Matthew and the book of Acts, we've seen the first century Jews do a lot of wicked things. Chief among them the betrayal and murder of their own Messiah. iv. Although the events of this text do not compare to the murder of their own God-King, it certainly has a rather sinister stench about it. v. Why is this so wicked? vi. First, we must understand the nature of a curse. 1. The words translated “bound under a curse” is one word. It is the word Anathematize. It means to submit to divine destruction for failure to uphold their end. 2. Even to submit to eternal Divine punishment if they eat or drink anything before they kill Paul. 3. May God cast me in hell if I eat or drink anything before I kill Paul. vii. Secondly, we must understand the foolishness of this curse. 1. First, there are two ways they fail this curse. Either they eat or drink something before they kill Paul, or they never kill Paul and die of starvation. 2. Second, this curse is only succeeded by them committing an act which God expressly forbids in the decalogue… You shall not murder. 3. Particularly heinous in the Mosaic law was someone who premeditated murder. 4. God hates hands that shed innocent blood and a heart that devises wicked schemes. Prov 6:16-19 viii. 40 Jewish men form this wicked plan. But they are not alone… b. [Slide 3] 14 - They came to the chief priests and the elders and said, “We have bound ourselves under a curse to taste nothing until we have killed Paul. 15 - So now you, along with the Sanhedrin, notify the commander to bring him down to you, as though you were going to determine his case more carefully; and we for our part are ready to slay him before he comes near.” i. They inform the chief priests and elders of Israel about the curse they have placed on themselves. ii. If the chief priests and elders were righteous, they would have these men thrown in jail. They would have at least refused to aid them. iii. Instead, they help to facilitate the plan. But what is the plan? iv. To go with the Sanhedrin to the Roman commander and notify him that the Sanhedrin would like a do over on the trial. They want to look more carefully at his case. v. This is, of course, a lie. vi. Add that to the growing list of sins that God hates wrapped up in this plot. vii. The plan then, is that while he is enroute to the Sanhedrin's chambers, these 40 men will accost and kill Paul. viii. Which is a plan that isn't without risk. Paul certainly would have some sort of Roman escort. It is possible that some of them may die or be executed for their hand in this. ix. This is the length to which these Jews will go to kill Paul. c. [Slide 4] Summary of the Point: Luke once again shows us the agency and responsibility of men. These 40 Jews, the chief priests, the elders, the Sanhedrin, all form this conspiracy, these secret plans whispered in empty halls with murder on their lips. God doesn't intervene here. He doesn't snap his fingers and snuff out the breathe of these conspirators. He doesn't prevent them from thinking of these sinful deeds. He doesn't kill them in their sleep. God allows wicked men to be wicked. To make their plans. However much we make of God's absolute Sovereignty we must not cross the threshold as some have in saying that if God doesn't want me to do something, He can stop me from doing it. This is true… but God often doesn't stop men from sinning. Nor can we say that God can't judge me for my actions if He Himself has orchestrated them to accomplish His purposes. Just ask Pharoah about that one. God permits, at very least, the perception of human agency and responsibility to ensure that He is never the first cause of someone sinning. They are. These men are responsible for their wicked deeds. So what must we do in response? We must trust the Lord. God has promised to never leave us, and to preserve us. But that doesn't mean He will not allow men to form and even execute wicked plans against us. Trusting God doesn't mean we'll never experience hardship… it means we trust that God even uses hardship for our good and His glory. Transition: [Slide 5(blank)] The plan has been made and the stage is set. It seems like no one will be able to stop them from killing Paul this time. It looks like Jesus' promise will end up being false. Of course, we know that cannot be true. So how does God frustrate the plans of the wicked? II.) God providentially guides the steps of all men, so we must trust the Lord. (16-35) a. [Slide 6] 16 - But when the son of Paul's sister heard of their ambush, he came and entered the barracks and reported it to Paul. i. Debate abounds on how exactly Paul's nephew heard about this plan. ii. In reality the options are almost endless. Luke doesn't think the details relevant to convey – only the fact that this young man heard of the plot. iii. We also get a rare look at the family of Paul here. iv. It is supposed by many that Paul's family rejected him after he became a Christian. Some even suggest that Paul was probably married and his wife was granted a divorce because of his conversion to Christ. This is all conjecture of course. v. But we do know at least that Paul's nephew, the son of his sister, is living in Jerusalem. If he has also turned his back on Paul it seems odd that he would take an interest in preserving Paul's life. vi. Perhaps catching wind of such a wicked plot turns his heart toward helping Paul. Perhaps he has converted to Christ. Much of this, again, is conjecture and not details that Luke chooses to share. vii. But what does his nephew do? viii. He does the righteous thing and informs Paul immediately. ix. Let this be a lesson to all, informing others of someone's plan to do evil is not narcing or snitching or in some way a betrayal to those doing wicked things. We must be on the side of righteousness not tribalism or even loyalty to other human beings. Let God's kingdom and righteousness be your only loyalty… even if it costs you friends or associates. b. [Slide 7] 17 - And Paul called one of the centurions to him and said, “Lead this young man to the commander, for he has something to report to him.” 18 - So he took him and led him to the commander and said, “Paul the prisoner called me to him and asked me to lead this young man to you since he has something to tell you.” 19 - And the commander took him by the hand and stepping aside, began to inquire of him privately, “What is it that you have to report to me?” 20 - And he said, “The Jews have agreed to ask you to bring Paul down tomorrow to the Sanhedrin, as though they were going to inquire somewhat more carefully about him. 21 - “So do not be persuaded by them, for more than forty of them—who have bound themselves under a curse not to eat or drink until they slay him—are lying in wait for him and now they are ready and waiting for the promise from you.” i. In this rather lengthy section of scripture, not a lot actually transpires in the narrative. ii. Luke establishes the chain of information for us in that Paul calls a centurion to take his young nephew to the Roman commander with an urgent piece of information. iii. Notice that Paul does not tell the centurion what the boy told him. iv. A couple reasons for this. 1. It would probably be more believable coming from the boy than from Paul 2. It keeps fewer people knowing about the plot and the fact that Paul now knows about it. v. So the centurion takes the boy to the commander. vi. The commander takes him to a private place, probably because he understood that the information he was to convey needed to be spoken privately. vii. After this Paul's nephew informs the Roman commander of the scheme of these 40 Jews and the Sanhedrin who have conspired together to kill Paul before he arrived. viii. Again, it is helpful for us to remember that Paul is a prisoner of the Roman Empire. He is probably not in some kind of formal custody. Perhaps simply protective custody. But custody nonetheless. ix. And for the commander to allow a prisoner to be accosted and killed under his watch would have made him look like he wasn't doing his job. x. Thus, we do not have this commander shaking off this information as if it matters little to him. xi. Quite the contrary. c. [Slide 8] 22 - So the commander let the young man go, instructing him, “Tell no one that you have notified me of these things.” 23 - And when he called to him two of the centurions, he said, “Make ready two hundred soldiers, seventy horsemen, and two hundred spearmen to proceed to Caesarea by the third hour of the night, 24 - and provide mounts to put Paul on and bring him safely to Felix the governor.” i. The commander first instructs the young man not to tell ANYONE that he told the commander this. ii. He doesn't want the fact that he knows about this to get back to the schemers. iii. Immediately the Roman Commander makes plans to get Paul out of Jerusalem. iv. If these Jews are going to start plotting and scheming while Rome protects him, then it seems best to get him out of Jerusalem. v. The Commander makes quite the plan to see Paul to safety. vi. He gathers 470 soldiers in total to escort Paul the 60 miles to Caesarea. He does so on the third hour of the night, which would be around 9pm. vii. He also makes sure that Paul rides on a mount and charges the whole company to bring Paul safely to Felix the governor of Judea. viii. But The commander also sends his own account to the governor. ix. In order for a proper transfer of a case and to submit a chain of evidence to that trial, this would probably be a normal practice within the Roman Empire's legal proceedings. x. As such, some questions have arisen as to how Luke could have gotten his hands on this letter. And the fact of the matter is that this letter would have followed Paul all the way to Rome as part of the case notes. And certainly, at some point Paul or Luke would have either heard it presented or gotten to see it himself. xi. Therefore, we don't need to doubt the authenticity of the letter, nor do we need to assume Luke is summarizing what the commander says. He probably heard it read several times, and potentially even was able to make a copy of it himself. d. [Slide 9] 25 - And he wrote a letter having this form: 26 - “Claudius Lysias, to the most excellent governor Felix, greetings. 27 - When this man was arrested by the Jews and was about to be slain by them, I came up to them with the troops and rescued him, having learned that he was a Roman. 28 - And wanting to ascertain the charge for which they were accusing him, I brought him down to their Sanhedrin; 29 - and I found him to be accused over questions about their Law, but under no accusation deserving death or imprisonment. 30 - And when I was informed that there would be a plot against the man, I sent him to you at once, also instructing his accusers to speak against him before you.” i. Here we learn the name of the Roman commander who has been God's agent of rescuing Paul through these various attempts on his life. ii. He identifies himself as Claudius Lysias. A Greek name, indicating to us as we've said before that this man was no doubt from a wealthy Greek family who purchased his future within the Roman Empire. Starting with his citizenship and even his position as a Commander in Judea. iii. He sends his account of all that has happened and his account is very interesting indeed. iv. The first point is a rather self-aggrandizing version of the story Luke told. 1. The Jews did not actually arrest Paul, they were simply beating him and the Lysias stopped it. 2. Furthermore, Lysias makes it seem like he rescued Paul because he had learned that Paul was a Roman citizen. With a little logic and reasoning we could easily determine that this would be quite difficult to do in the midst of the Jews arresting him and trying to kill him. 3. Again, this doesn't quite jive with Luke's version of the story. But we can see why Lysias would want to fudge a few details to get himself out of trouble. 4. To admit that he allowed a riot to break out on the temple mount only a couple flights of stairs from the Anatolian fortress would not be good for him to report to the higher ups. 5. We also see he does not mention how he ACTUALLY found out Paul was a Roman citizen, which was in the midst of binding and almost flogging him. 6. This is as much a political letter as it is a legal document. Lysias is portraying himself as a great hero to try to score some points with his superiors. v. The second point is fairly consistent with what Luke recorded. 1. Lysias did want to determine the real reason he was in trouble with the Jews. 2. Lysias' perspective on that Sanhedrin debacle was essentially that Paul had said something about their law that was a controversial issue. 3. His assessment, which is quite vindicating for us reading Luke's narrative, is that this is nothing deserving of death OR imprisonment. Lysias essentially says that Paul is innocent of anything Rome might find against him. 4. We might wonder why Paul will have to wait over two and a half years to be released from Roman custody if the Roman officer in charge thinks he should go free… but we will see that there is a lot more political intrigue left to go in the book of Acts. vi. The third point is consistent except it reveals not only that Lysias has saved Paul once again, but that he plans to tell Paul's accusers to go to Caesarea to state their case before Felix. vii. We'll talk more about Felix next week. He is a rather… interesting character to say the least. e. [Slide 10] 31 - So, the soldiers, according to their orders, took Paul and brought him by night to Antipatris. 32 - But the next day, leaving the horsemen to go on with him, they returned to the barracks. 33 - When these had come to Caesarea and delivered the letter to the governor, they also presented Paul to him. i. So, we see that the soldiers followed Lysias' orders and took Paul by night to Antipatris, which was a military fort about 37 miles from Jerusalem. ii. Travelers from Caesarea and Jerusalem would often stop at this place for rest and provisions. iii. Traveling this far in one night, over half the journey to Caesarea, means they were BOOKIN. iv. Given the conditioning of a Roman soldier and the fact that they would travel a road which would be relatively unpopulated at night, it seems that they could cover the 37 miles in around 4-6 hours. This would put their arrival time at around 2am the following morning. v. After resting the remainder of the night, the next day the soldiers traveling on foot went back to Jerusalem, because at this point the danger on Paul's life would have been mitigated. vi. Only the 70 horsemen rode on with Paul to Caesarea. The remaining 23 miles could easily have been covered in an hour or two on horseback depending on the pace they wanted to set. vii. After arriving they finished their orders by giving the letter to Felix and presenting Paul to him. viii. This means that probably about the time that Lysais informs the Sanhedrin that Paul has been transferred to Felix in Caesarea, is about the same time that Paul is presented to Felix in Caesarea. f. [Slide 11] 34 - And when he had read it, he asked from what province he was, and when he learned that he was from Cilicia, 35 - he said, “I will give you a hearing after your accusers arrive also,” giving orders for him to be kept in Herod's Praetorium. i. Felix seems to be a good governor, at least initially. ii. He reads the letter and asks Paul from which Roman province he hails from. iii. The reason for this question is probably two-fold 1. First, to determine if he had jurisdiction over this person. a. We see a similar thing happen to Jesus and Pilate. Pilate, finding out that Jesus was from Galilee, sent him to Herod. b. If Felix could offload this case to someone else… he probably would. c. But Paul being from Cilicia would mean that he would still be within Felix's jurisdiction since Syria and Judea would have fallen in the same authority at this time. 2. Second, probably to check on the status of Paul being a Roman Citizen. a. As we said before, Roman records would be kept of citizenship, primarily in the cities or provincial capitals of your birthplace. b. No doubt Felix desires to make certain that Paul was indeed a Roman citizen. iv. Having heard that Paul is within his province he assures him that he will hear his case after his accusers arrive. v. In the meantime, Paul is to be held, again – in protective custody, in Felix's own home. A sprawling estate called Herod's Praetorium. vi. He is still a prisoner of Rome, so he is kept in the Praetorium, but he is probably afforded many liberties, including having his traveling companions either stay there with him or able to visit often. vii. This is why as we go forward into chapter 24, the pronoun “we” will begin to be in use again. Informing us subtly that Luke has joined the apostle. g. [Slide 12] Summary of the Point: In the last point we saw that God allows men to make evil plans. But in this point we see that God not only allows men to plan their wicked deeds… He even orchestrates and uses these wicked deeds to get His apostle one step closer to Rome. In this we see Proverbs 16:9 come screaming through. Men make their plans but the Lord guides their steps. These wicked Jews inadvertently forced the Roman commander to move Paul out of Jerusalem where he would eventually be moved to Rome, as the Lord Jesus said he would. By their wicked scheme, the Lord ushered His apostle to where He wanted him to go. In this the application is the same. We must trust the Lord. The role of many prophets in the Old Testament was to call the current Israelites to remember what God had done for them in the past so they could trust Him for their future. Occasionally our Lord recalls to us things we have experienced in our lives and traces His fingerprints on those events to show us how He has guided us to the exact spot we are in. Can I submit to you that in those cases, God provides merely an example of what He ALWAYS DOES! Meaning that even when we cannot see His hand guiding the events of our life to His design for us – that doesn't make it any less true. Thus we must trust the Lord! For all our ways are known to Him for He has planned them from before the foundation of the world. Conclusion: So, CBC, what have we learned today and how then shall we live? What are some basic applications for faith and practice we get from this text? Basics of Faith and Practice: [Slide 13] Once again, we are confronted with the paradoxical truths that mankind operates with free agency and responsibility for his actions, but God is in absolute and sovereign control over all things in His creation, including the decisions and choices of men. While we may be tempted to steal from one of these truths to help the other, this truth has long been summarized in Proverbs 16:9 and is on display in our text this morning. Man makes his plans but the Lord guides His steps. Mankind has free agency and responsibility to choose his path according to what has been revealed to him. But as the saying goes, you don't know what you don't know. God's eternal decreed will is hidden and therefore, He who has ordained every day has also orchestrated every event to accomplish the counsel of His will. In the text today we see God allow and orchestrate the wicked schemes of men to move His apostle toward Rome. So what is our response? What is our responsibility and our agency? It is to trust the Lord, that He is good, and that all things work together for good for those who love God and are called according to His purpose. What are some specific expressions of these rules for faith and practice? 1.) [Slide 14] Mind Transformation: “What truth must we believe from this text?” or “What might we not naturally believe that we must believe because of what this text has said?” We must affirm that God orchestrates even wicked schemes and political power grabs to accomplish His perfect will. a. Again, I'll try not to spend too much time on this, since this seems to be a point that Luke will beat into our heads for the remainder of the book of Acts. b. But still, it is worth noting, that not only sins of passion but even premeditated sins, sown in secret, to do terrible things, are orchestrated by God to accomplish His purposes. c. Even self-serving political opportunists, like Claudius Lysias who clearly just wants to climb the ladder of power, even this is orchestrated by the Lord to accomplish His will. d. Everything in this text serves to get Paul to Rome safely. Even the selfishness of Lysias and even the bloodthirstiness of the Jews. e. If God can work even these things to accomplish His will, do you think He can't do the same in your life? f. Have you ever had 40 men devise a plot to kill you? Have you ever had political opportunists use you as a bargaining chip for personal profit? Ok… don't answer that.

This week's hour of mystery begins with Matthew Slade, Private Investigator. We'll hear The Secret Gray Man, from October 25, 1964. (23:40) Our second story is The Schemers, the April 6, 1954, episode of Barrie Craig, Confidential Investigator. https://traffic.libsyn.com/forcedn/e55e1c7a-e213-4a20-8701-21862bdf1f8a/CaseClosed936.mp3 Download CaseClosed936 | Subscribe | Spotify | Support Case Closed

Happy Radiothon Day from HRN!In Horses in the Morning Hour 1 of the 2024 Holiday Radiothon Jamie, Glenn and Ashley introduce this year's Charity of Choice, Hope's Legacy. Then they visit Germany with Jamie's foreign exchange student Anna and her parents. Christmas markets, Gluhwein and over $600 in prizes given away!HOLIDAY RADIOTHON 2024, HOUR 1 (HITM) – Show Notes and Links:The Radiothon Emcees: Glenn the Geek of Horse Radio Network and Ashley Winch of Sleep Stories for EquestriansGuest HRN Co-Host: Jamie Jennings of Horses in the MorningGuests: Foreign Exchange Student Anna and her parents, Yvonne and MichaelGuest: Maya Proulx - Executive Director Hope's Legacy | Hope's Legacy Equine Rescue, Inc.Guest: Courtney Thompson - Adopter of Windcries - Story on Windcries by Thoroughbred Aftercare AllianceSupport for this hour of today's special annual event provided by: State Line Tack, Kentucky Performance Products, BeneFab, and Listeners Like YouPrizes for Hour 1 provided by: Dreamers & Schemers, Kelly Herd Jewelry, Your Complete Guide to Equine Arenas, and Equine OneCharity of Choice: Hope's Legacy Equine Rescue Donation Link: A Home for Every Horse

Happy Radiothon Day from HRN!In Horses in the Morning Hour 1 of the 2024 Holiday Radiothon Jamie, Glenn and Ashley introduce this year's Charity of Choice, Hope's Legacy. Then they visit Germany with Jamie's foreign exchange student Anna and her parents. Christmas markets, Gluhwein and over $600 in prizes given away!HOLIDAY RADIOTHON 2024, HOUR 1 (HITM) – Show Notes and Links:The Radiothon Emcees: Glenn the Geek of Horse Radio Network and Ashley Winch of Sleep Stories for EquestriansGuest HRN Co-Host: Jamie Jennings of Horses in the MorningGuests: Foreign Exchange Student Anna and her parents, Yvonne and MichaelGuest: Maya Proulx - Executive Director Hope's Legacy | Hope's Legacy Equine Rescue, Inc.Guest: Courtney Thompson - Adopter of Windcries - Story on Windcries by Thoroughbred Aftercare AllianceSupport for this hour of today's special annual event provided by: State Line Tack, Kentucky Performance Products, BeneFab, and Listeners Like YouPrizes for Hour 1 provided by: Dreamers & Schemers, Kelly Herd Jewelry, Your Complete Guide to Equine Arenas, and Equine OneCharity of Choice: Hope's Legacy Equine Rescue Donation Link: A Home for Every Horse

In Part One, we covered Florida's land boom of the 1920's and its subsequent crash. Here in Part Two, we'll be looking at some of the unexpected and unintended ramifications of urbanizing the southeast coast in Broward and Dade counties that manifested with the Flood of 1947 when 5 million acres of land from Lake Okeechobee down to Miami lay submerged for half the year and then we also examine how people refuse to learn from their mistakes as a second land boom erupts in the 1960's. Every bit of this overlooked past serves up important lessons; lessons that go largely unheeded leading to mistakes being repeated. We hope you'll listen and share this episode with others so that all of us here in Florida can do better.

Florida has known more than its fair share of speculators, swindlers, suckers, con artists, and outright thieves all seeking to make their fortune with land. The boom we're currently experiencing has happened before, and we've actually covered it in prior episodes, but this week we're looking at it from a slightly different angle and in much greater detail. We begin with the Big Boom and bust of the roaring twenties in Part One and next week we'll examine the Flood of 1947 and subsequent second land boom following WWII and the Korean War. There's plenty of lessons to be taken from all of these events, but unfortunately too many people refuse to learn from history and heed the warning signs.

Introduction to a new series on this podcast - one I've been intending to do for a while.  It's called Reactivities: Tales from Interesting Times.  Strauss & Howe originally called the cohort born between 1961 and 1981 the Thirteenth Generation, but the Coupland's "Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture" soon made it the preferred moniker. In Strauss & Howe's cyclical view, every fourth generation would have similar attributes, making Generation X similar (for example) to the Lost Generation born at the end of the 19th century.  These generations, which were seen as responding to the changes of the Awakening,  were originally called "Reactive."  (Later, archetypal representations were used instead, and Gen X became a Nomad generation - although, still, I think we should be either Schemers or Scoundrels, instead.) This will be about the interesting times that such generations - and especially Generation X - lived through. 

Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: An issue with training schemers with supervised fine-tuning, published by Fabien Roger on June 27, 2024 on The AI Alignment Forum. This is a rough write-up of ideas by Ryan Greenblatt. The core ideas are his and mistakes are mine. Thanks to him, Buck Shlegeris and to Aghyad Deeb for feedback on the draft of this post. One way to use scheming AIs is to train them to imitate humans. When does imitation robustly avoid frequent and intentional failures? On single-token classification tasks, imitation works great and can allow you to get a lot of high-quality labor with a tiny rate of intentional failures; On tasks that involve generating many tokens, imitation potentially fails by default: schemers could notice when an output was generated by themselves, which enables them to consistently behave badly in deployment while doing best-effort imitation during training. We describe two techniques that avoid imitation failures on generation tasks: A technique that works perfectly but is too expensive A technique that we think works in practice While pure imitation may not be sufficiently competitive, we think it could prove useful for tasks such as: (No-CoT) single-token classification; KL-regularization for RL: we may want to penalize models trained with RL for straying too far from a human imitation prior (and we would want this human prior to not be malign!) (see Appendix); Tasks for which it is fine to take the competitiveness hit from not using RL, but which weaker trusted models are not good enough at.[1] Assumptions In this post, we focus on scenarios where: AIs are smart (around human-level or above); AIs are scheming and know how we are training and deploying them; We want to use these AIs productively (e.g. to do safety research)[2]; Training and deployment tasks are indistinguishable (e.g. because we randomly sampled training tasks from the deployment distribution); SGD works: we ignore gradient hacking and AI architectures where SGD is very sample inefficient; AIs can't cause catastrophes in very few actions (e.g. because they are too weak to break safety measures that address these sorts of concerns); Even when AIs try their best, they can't perfectly predict the probability distribution over the actions that humans[3] would take. Easy-mode: imitating human judgment on classification tasks Here is how you can use an AI to 100x the speed at which you can complete a billion single-token (IID) classification tasks (e.g. detecting software bugs, scoring project ideas, …): 1. Sample 1% of the tasks, and ask humans to label them (using their judgment); 2. Train the AI on that 1% of tasks you have solved yourself, using normal training (e.g. SGD with a cross-entropy loss); 3. Use the AI to solve the remaining 99% of tasks. This will get you an AI which failed intentionally at most a few times in the whole training set because intentional failures would have quickly been trained away[4]. Therefore, you got at most a few hundred intentional failures in the whole set of tasks. That is an intentional failure rate at most around 1/10M, not bad![5] In other words, human imitation avoids intentional low-stakes failures: the model won't often be worse than a best-effort imitation of a human. (But best-effort imitation of a human could be catastrophic if that isn't sufficiently capable.) The basic problem with imitating humans on generation tasks But most tasks we care about involve generating many tokens (e.g. coding a complex experiment, writing a detailed project proposal, …). Does imitation work for such generation tasks? Not quite, here is a problem that could arise if you train an AI to imitate human answers on 1% of tasks and use it on the remaining 99% without additional supervision: On the 1% of training tasks, the AI tries its best to imitate human answers when the star...

Ed and Amanda chat with Australian political historian and author, Frank Bongiorno, ahead of the 'Bad Cop, Good Cop' panel at the Words on the Waves Writers Festival. Frank's book, 'Dreamers and Schemers' charts Australia's political history from pre-settlement Indigenous systems to the present day. We ask his well-informed opinion on exactly what goes into Australia's unique democracy sausage. Buy Frank's books. Learn more about the Words on the Waves Writers Festival. Connect with us at https://notquitewritepodcast.com Register for the next Not Quite Write Prize at https://notquitewriteprize.com

The Embezzler- Barrie heads to a small town to track down a man who embezzled money from a local bank The Schemers- Barrie is hired to find $200,000 which was stolen by a corporate treasurer.

Schemers behind Wisconsin's fake elector plot charged with felonies. Biden to issue executive order on southern border and limit asylum. Looming over Trump's conviction: Reversal by the ""13th juror."" The former president has an extensive menu of options to pursue in his appeal." HOST: Ana Kasparian (@anakasparian), Cenk Uygur (@cenkuygur) SUBSCRIBE on YOUTUBE: ☞ https://www.youtube.com/user/theyoungturks FACEBOOK: ☞ https://www.facebook.com/theyoungturks TWITTER: ☞ https://www.twitter.com/theyoungturks INSTAGRAM: ☞ https://www.instagram.com/theyoungturks TIKTOK: ☞ https://www.tiktok.com/@theyoungturks

FBI AGENT on Catching Scammers, Bank Fraudsters & Ponzi Schemers --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/mattcox/support

The Braw and The Brave is a podcast about people and their passions. Episode 224 is in conversation with actor Sean Connor. Pursuing his passion from a young age, Sean started his career on screen whilst attending youth theatre. Since graduating with a Bachelor of Arts Honours degree, he has appeared in numerous film and television projects, including Schemers, Still Game and as the character Dylan Christie in BBC Scotland's River City. Sean's theatre credits include the highly acclaimed Moorcroft (Tron Theatre), Ode to Joy (Stories Untold Productions and his latest project with Raw Material and Capital Theatres' James V: Katherine. From jet-lag to standing ovations, we explore the life of an actor and the highlights and hurdles that have made Sean's hugely successful career to date. If you've enjoyed this episode you can help support the production of future episodes by clicking on the Ko-Fi link below. Many thanks. https://ko-fi.com/thebrawandthebrave Follow The Braw and The Brave https://www.instagram.com/thebrawandthebravepodcast/ https://www.facebook.com/TheBrawandTheBrave https://twitter.com/BrawBrave

How many more times can we put scheme in a title?  Jup and Cotton discuss the basics of scheming with guest Oz.

Show notesThis week, Fiona and Hamilton read through the free Baldur's Gate Gazetteer available on DnD Beyond (originally from Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus published in 2019).From the Baldur's Gate Gazetteer bio:'In Baldur's Gate, thievery, blackmail, and illegal trade runs rampant. Now you can journey to this dangerous city of the Sword Coast with the Baldur's Gate Gazetteer. Learn about each of the city's districts and key locations and people, and unlock backgrounds for your next Baldurian character!'Supplement discussed: 'Baldur's Gate Gazetteer' (originally from the Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus) published by Wizards of the Coast, September 2019.Consider using our affiliate link when using DM's Guild!#SupportyourFLGSCredits The DM's Book Club is hosted, recorded, edited, and produced by Fiona Howat (@WAIR_Podcast) and Hamilton (@TheDragonDM). The DM's Book Club Logo was designed by Sam Robins (@Bobhatstand).The theme music is 'The Story Unfolds' by Jingle Punks.Get in touch!Email: TheDMsBookClub@gmail.comTwitter: @TheDMsBookClubLinktr.ee: DMBC#DMsBookClub

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Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Why focus on schemers in particular (Sections 1.3 and 1.4 of "Scheming AIs"), published by Joe Carlsmith on November 24, 2023 on The AI Alignment Forum. This is Sections 1.3 and 1.4 of my report "Scheming AIs: Will AIs fake alignment during training in order to get power?". There's also a summary of the full report here (audio here). The summary covers most of the main points and technical terms, and I'm hoping that it will provide much of the context necessary to understand individual sections of the report on their own. Audio version of this section here, or search "Joe Carlsmith Audio" on your podcast aapp. Why focus on schemers in particular? As I noted above, I think schemers are the scariest model class in this taxonomy.[1] Why think that? After all, can't all of these models be dangerously misaligned and power-seeking? Reward-on-the-episode seekers, for example, will plausibly try to seize control of the reward process, if it will lead to more reward-on-the-episode. This section explains why. However, if you're happy enough with the focus on schemers, feel free to skip ahead to section 1.4. The type of misalignment I'm most worried about To explain why I think that schemers are uniquely scary, I want to first say a few words about the type of misalignment I'm most worried about. First: I'm focused, here, on what I've elsewhere called "practical power-seeking-alignment" - that is, on whether our AIs will engage in problematic forms of power-seeking on any of the inputs they will in fact receive. This means, importantly, that we don't need to instill goals in our AIs that lead to good results even when subject to arbitrary amounts of optimization power (e.g., we don't need to pass Yudkowsky's "omni test"). Rather, we only need to instill goals in our AIs that lead to good results given the actual options and constraints those AIs will face, and the actual levels of optimization power they will be mobilizing. This is an importantly lower bar. Indeed, it's a bar that, in principle, all of these models (even schemers) can meet, assuming we control their capabilities, options, and incentives in the right way. For example, while it's true that a reward-on-the-episode seeker will try to seize control of the reward process given the opportunity, one tool in our toolset is: to not give it the opportunity. And while a paradigm schemer might be lying in wait, hoping one day to escape and seize power (but performing well in the meantime), one tool in our tool box is: to not let it escape (while continuing to benefit from its good performance). Of course, success in this respect requires that our monitoring, control, and security efforts be sufficiently powerful relative to the AIs we're worried about, and that they remain so even as frontier AI capabilities scale up. But this brings me to my second point: namely, I'm here especially interested in the practical PS-alignment of some comparatively early set of roughly human-level - or at least, not-wildly-superhuman - models. Defending this point of focus is beyond my purpose here. But it's important to the lens I'll be using in what follows. In particular: I think it's plausible that there will be some key (and perhaps: scarily brief) stage of AI development in which our AIs are not yet powerful enough to take-over (or to escape from human control), but where they are still capable, in principle, of performing extremely valuable and alignment-relevant cognitive work for us, if we can successfully induce them to do so. And I'm especially interested in forms of misalignment that might undermine this possibility. Finally: I'm especially interested in forms of PS-misalignment in which the relevant power-seeking AIs are specifically aiming either to cause, participate in, or benefit from some kind of full-blown disempowerment of ...

This is sections 1.3-1.4 of my report “Scheming AIs: Will AIs fake alignment during training in order to get power?” Text of the report here: https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.08379   Summary of the report here: https://joecarlsmith.com/2023/11/15/new-report-scheming-ais-will-ais-fake-alignment-during-training-in-order-to-get-power   Audio summary here: https://joecarlsmithaudio.buzzsprout.com/2034731/13969977-introduction-and-summary-of-scheming-ais-will-ais-fake-alignment-during-training-in-order-to-get-power

Biden: Hospitals "must be protected" in Gaza as Israeli forces close in. "Her behavior has been disgraceful!" Ben Shapiro destroys colleague Candace Owens for "ridiculous" Israel rhetoric. "The boss is not going to leave": Proffer videos show ex-Trump lawyers telling Georgia prosecutors about efforts to overturn the 2020 election.HOSTS: Ana Kasparian (@AnaKasparian) and Cenk Uygur (@cenkuygur)SUBSCRIBE on YOUTUBE: ☞ https://www.youtube.com/user/theyoungturksFACEBOOK: ☞ https://www.facebook.com/theyoungturksTWITTER: ☞ https://www.twitter.com/theyoungturksINSTAGRAM: ☞ https://www.instagram.com/theyoungturksTIKTOK: ☞ https://www.tiktok.com/@theyoungturks

Tony Jones Show #236 - With music from: Deer Tick, Jonee Earthquake Band, Karma Rocket, Archers, Jason James, Lords of the Highway, Tall Teenagers, The Schemers, Jets Can't Land, Glenn Robinson, Eric and the Nothing, Hello Atlantic, Damone, Nova One, The Evil Streaks, The Benji's, We Own Land, Traveling Empire.

Clackamas County man claimed his father had bought the salvage rights in 1908, setting off a huge dust-up among residents, beachgoers and politicians, who scrambled to protect the landmark wreck. He almost got away with it, too. (Warrenton, Clatsop County; 1960s) (For text and pictures, see https://offbeatoregon.com/1208d-schemer-sought-to-sell-peter-iredale-shipwreck-for-scrap.html)

In this episode, historian and Professor Frank Bongiorno talks us through Australia's constitutional history and explains why the upcoming referendum has the potential to reshape our ability to change as a nation.Professor Frank Bongiorno, AM, is a Professor of History, at the ANU's College of Arts and Social Sciences. He has held positions in Australia and the UK, and has written widely on Australia's political history. He is the author of four books, including the recently published Dreamers and Schemers. Sharon Bessell is a Professor of Public Policy and Director of both the Children's Policy Centre and the Poverty and Inequality Research Centre at ANU Crawford School of Public Policy. Arnagretta Hunter is the Human Futures Fellow at ANU College of Health and Medicine, a cardiologist, a physician, and a Senior Clinical Lecturer at ANU Medical School.You can find full show notes on the Crawford School of Public Policy LinkedIn account. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Equine Lawyer Danielle Mayer tells us the do's, the don'ts, and the mustn'ts of equine law for the everyday horse owner. Heather Wallace of Adulting with Horses stops by for Tell a Friend September and Ashley is very excited about her new show, Sleep Stories for Equestrians. Plus, some pad talk with Kristy of Dreamers n Schemers, listen in…HORSES IN THE MORNING Episode 3273 – Show Notes and Links:The HORSES IN THE MORNING Crew: Glenn the Geek: co-host, executive in charge of comic relief, Jamie Jennings: co-host, director of wacky equestrian adventures, Coach Jenn: producer, Chaos Control Officer.Guest Co-Host: Ashley Winch, Sleep Stories for Equestrians Title Sponsor: Kemin Equine - EquiSUMMITFeatured Image: Horse Radio NetworkGuest: Danielle Mayor, Senior Counsel Guest: Heather Wallace | Facebook | Twitter | Instagram | PatreonGuest: Kristy at Dreamers n SchemersThere's an App for that! Download the new FREE Horse Radio Network App for iPhone and AndroidFollow Horse Radio Network on TwitterAdditional support for this podcast provided by Daily Dose Equine, State Line Tack, and Listeners Like You!Time Stamps:06:00 - Daily Whinnies13:46 - Danielle Mayor29:35 - Heather Wallace40:40 - Kristy at Dreamers n Schemers

Equine Lawyer Danielle Mayer tells us the do's, the don'ts, and the mustn'ts of equine law for the everyday horse owner. Heather Wallace of Adulting with Horses stops by for Tell a Friend September and Ashley is very excited about her new show, Sleep Stories for Equestrians. Plus, some pad talk with Kristy of Dreamers n Schemers, listen in…HORSES IN THE MORNING Episode 3273 – Show Notes and Links:The HORSES IN THE MORNING Crew: Glenn the Geek: co-host, executive in charge of comic relief, Jamie Jennings: co-host, director of wacky equestrian adventures, Coach Jenn: producer, Chaos Control Officer.Guest Co-Host: Ashley Winch, Sleep Stories for Equestrians Title Sponsor: Kemin Equine - EquiSUMMITFeatured Image: Horse Radio NetworkGuest: Danielle Mayor, Senior Counsel Guest: Heather Wallace | Facebook | Twitter | Instagram | PatreonGuest: Kristy at Dreamers n SchemersThere's an App for that! Download the new FREE Horse Radio Network App for iPhone and AndroidFollow Horse Radio Network on TwitterAdditional support for this podcast provided by Daily Dose Equine, State Line Tack, and Listeners Like You!Time Stamps:06:00 - Daily Whinnies13:46 - Danielle Mayor29:35 - Heather Wallace40:40 - Kristy at Dreamers n Schemers

Original owners of the falls tried for years to log it, but the steamship and railroad moguls were making a lot of money on excursion trips, so they blocked the scheme, preserving the falls for today's park. (Columbia River Gorge, Multnomah County; 1890s, 1900s) (For text and pictures, see https://offbeatoregon.com/1707e.fight-for-multnomah-falls-454.html)

Welcome to Foodie Summer!Today's book review is of Rowan Jacobsen's book, "Truffle Hound: On the Trail of the World's Most Seductive Scent, with Dreamers, Schemers, and Some Extraordinary Dogs."Music © by Capazunda.Instagram: @brutallyhonestbooksTikTok: @brutallyhonestbooks

Kathy Joseph talks with me about her book The Lightning Tamers: Trues Stories of the Dreamers and Schemers Who Harnessed Electricity and Transformed Our World. This is episode 579 of Teaching Learning Leading K12, an audio podcast. Kathy Joseph splits her time between writing her next book, making documentary videos based on her books for her YouTube channel, and giving talks about the history of science and the importance of context for learning science. Kathy attributes her novel's depth and breadth partially to her YouTube channel, Kathy Loves Physics. She uses her channel to test out her ideas in documentary form and learn from her brilliant viewers, making this book an interactive experience. Despite her simple video format, Kathy has hit a nerve, and her channel has over six million views and over 98,000 subscribers. Kathy also puts all of her scripts on her website and dives into other fascinating scientific topics on her blog, spanning a broad range of topics like the history of the Nobel Prize, the birth of wireless, and the early history of quantum mechanics. Kathy has earned four higher education degrees in physics, engineering, and science education, but she feels as if her real education came from spending 12 years as a public high school physics teacher. She is an alumnus of the University of Chicago, Penn State, and the University of Utah. Kathy lives near San Francisco with her fabulous husband, Mike, her amazing children, Alicia and Alex, and one very cranky cat aptly named Brutus. Learn more at www.KathyLovesPhysics.com.   Our focus today will be on Kathy's book - The Lightning Tamers: True Stories of the Dreamers and Schemers Who Harnessed Electricity and Transformed Our World So much to learn. Awesome talk! What an incredible book! So much cool stuff that you had probably never heard about before. Before you go... Could you do me a favor? Please go to my website at https://www.stevenmiletto.com/reviews/ or open the podcast app that you are listening to me on, and would you rate and review the podcast? That would be so cool. Thanks! If you are listening on Apple Podcasts on your phone, go to the logo - click so that you are on the main page with a listing of the episodes for my podcast and scroll to the bottom. There you will see a place to rate and review. Could you review me? That would be so cool. Thank you! Hey, I've got another favor...could you share the podcast with one of your friends, colleagues, and family members? Hmmm? What do you think? Thank you! Thanks for sharing! Thanks for listening! Connect & Learn More: https://kathylovesphysics.com/ https://www.youtube.com/c/KathyLovesPhysicsHistory https://www.instagram.com/kathylovesphysics/ https://www.facebook.com/KathyLovesPhysics https://www.amazon.com/Lightning-Tamers-Harnessed-Electricity-Transformed/dp/B0B4ZFCGSM/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1657561395&sr=8-1 Length - 56:48

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Tony Jones Show #230 - With music from: Carissa Johnson, The Safes, The Quins, Umbrella Co., Flexie, For the Love of Sloane, Nymphidels, Jonee Earthquake Band, The Sleazies, The Showcase Showdown, Time Out Timmy, The Callouts, Gamma Rage, Brunt Of It, The Proletariat, The Schemers, Matchless, Senior Discount, Roz Raskin and the Rice Cakes

Jake+Coffee+You #4: Criticism & Schemers by Jake Moore

Tony Jones Show #221 - With music from: Umbrella Co., Russ Carrick, The Benji's, Traveling Empire, Black 47 / Jonee Earthquake, The Callouts, 61 Ghosts, Look Back Luna, Shore City, Today is Tomorrow, We Own Land, Two Cow Garage, The Schemers, Roz and The Rice Cakes, Nymphidels, The Copacetics.

Influencer Tracii Show Hutstona, was all over social media, sporting towering heels and clingy couture, living the lux life with her former football pro husband. In hundreds of posts and on her own Youtube reality series, she plugged their chain of restaurants and VIP client services. But when one high profile client discovers more than a million dollars missing from her bank accounts – funds that investigators say were found to have passed through Tracii's flawlessly manicured hands – Tracii, a convicted fraudster and identity thief, is once again up on federal charges -– and set to star in the hottest criminal case sequel of the season. (Original air date 1/31/23)

Joumana Kidd and DJ Sixsmith discuss the American Greed episode called “VIP Schemers” where influencer Tracii Hutstona, a convicted fraudster and identity thief, stole thousands of dollars after being hired as a nanny.

Tony Jones Show #217 - With music from: The Amazing Crowns, The Charms, Ravi Shavi, Silverteeth, Sour Mash Kats, Completely Destroyed, the Frenzy of Tongs, The Schemers, The Skinny Millionaires, The Proletariat, Eric and the Nothing, Nymphidels, Shore City, Russ Carrick, SexCoffee, The Doll Eyes.

In Episode 88 of "The Dustin Gold Standard," Dustin and special guest Wide Awake Jim dive deeper into the Climate Change Hustle and prove that the perpetrators of this international grift know damn well that fossil fuel production continues to grow through 2050 and beyond. The elites have no plans to actually decrease production of fossil fuels. They are lying to all of us. This plan isn't just about the short term grift, the elites are going to use this scheme to drive us into carbon credit based Universal Basic Income and Central Bank Digital Currency. Donate to Dustin to help him continue to bring you this level of daily content and keep food on his family's table: https://donorbox.org/dustingoldshow TO CONNECT WITH JIM, JOIN Paine.TV/gold, Direct Message @GOLD and I will share a link to his profile TO GET ACCESS TO THE VIDEO VERSION OF THIS PODCAST AND ACCESS TO ALL OF THE CHARTS AND GRAPHS, JOIN Paine.TV/gold Join the discussion and get the ad-free video version of”The Dustin Gold Standard,” “The Thomas Paine Podcast,” and access to a Facebook-like website and mobile application where you can network and share intelligence with a group of like-minded folks (Join the Hotwire for Mike's highest level of intelligence): Paine.TV/gold Follow Dustin on Twitter: Twitter.com/dustingoldshow and Twitter.com/hackableanimal Get involved with the Telegram discussion: https://t.me/dustingoldshow Join in on live audio conversations: https://wisdom.app/dustingoldshow Ask a question and get a 60-second answer from me: https://wisdom.app/dustingoldshow/ask Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In Episode 88 of "The Dustin Gold Standard," Dustin and special guest Wide Awake Jim dive deeper into the Climate Change Hustle and prove that the perpetrators of this international grift know damn well that fossil fuel production continues to grow through 2050 and beyond. The elites have no plans to actually decrease production of fossil fuels. They are lying to all of us. This plan isn't just about the short term grift, the elites are going to use this scheme to drive us into carbon credit based Universal Basic Income and Central Bank Digital Currency. Donate to Dustin to help him continue to bring you this level of daily content and keep food on his family's table: https://donorbox.org/dustingoldshow TO CONNECT WITH JIM, JOIN Paine.TV/gold, Direct Message @GOLD and I will share a link to his profile TO GET ACCESS TO THE VIDEO VERSION OF THIS PODCAST AND ACCESS TO ALL OF THE CHARTS AND GRAPHS, JOIN Paine.TV/gold Join the discussion and get the ad-free video version of ”The Dustin Gold Standard,” “The Thomas Paine Podcast,” and access to a Facebook-like website and mobile application where you can network and share intelligence with a group of like-minded folks (Join the Hotwire for Mike's highest level of intelligence): Paine.TV/gold Follow Dustin on Twitter: Twitter.com/dustingoldshow and Twitter.com/hackableanimal Get involved with the Telegram discussion: https://t.me/dustingoldshow Join in on live audio conversations: https://wisdom.app/dustingoldshow Ask a question and get a 60-second answer from me: https://wisdom.app/dustingoldshow/ask Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In Episode 88 of "The Dustin Gold Standard," Dustin and special guest Wide Awake Jim dive deeper into the Climate Change Hustle and prove that the perpetrators of this international grift know damn well that fossil fuel production continues to grow through 2050 and beyond. The elites have no plans to actually decrease production of fossil fuels. They are lying to all of us. This plan isn't just about the short term grift, the elites are going to use this scheme to drive us into carbon credit based Universal Basic Income and Central Bank Digital Currency. Donate to Dustin to help him continue to bring you this level of daily content and keep food on his family's table: https://donorbox.org/dustingoldshow TO CONNECT WITH JIM, JOIN Paine.TV/gold, Direct Message @GOLD and I will share a link to his profile TO GET ACCESS TO THE VIDEO VERSION OF THIS PODCAST AND ACCESS TO ALL OF THE CHARTS AND GRAPHS, JOIN Paine.TV/gold Join the discussion and get the ad-free video version of ”The Dustin Gold Standard,” “The Thomas Paine Podcast,” and access to a Facebook-like website and mobile application where you can network and share intelligence with a group of like-minded folks (Join the Hotwire for Mike's highest level of intelligence): Paine.TV/gold Follow Dustin on Twitter: Twitter.com/dustingoldshow and Twitter.com/hackableanimal Get involved with the Telegram discussion: https://t.me/dustingoldshow Join in on live audio conversations: https://wisdom.app/dustingoldshow Ask a question and get a 60-second answer from me: https://wisdom.app/dustingoldshow/ask Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In Episode 88 of "The Dustin Gold Standard," Dustin and special guest Wide Awake Jim dive deeper into the Climate Change Hustle and prove that the perpetrators of this international grift know damn well that fossil fuel production continues to grow through 2050 and beyond. The elites have no plans to actually decrease production of fossil fuels. They are lying to all of us. This plan isn't just about the short term grift, the elites are going to use this scheme to drive us into carbon credit based Universal Basic Income and Central Bank Digital Currency. Donate to Dustin to help him continue to bring you this level of daily content and keep food on his family's table: https://donorbox.org/dustingoldshow TO CONNECT WITH JIM, JOIN Paine.TV/gold, Direct Message @GOLD and I will share a link to his profile TO GET ACCESS TO THE VIDEO VERSION OF THIS PODCAST AND ACCESS TO ALL OF THE CHARTS AND GRAPHS, JOIN Paine.TV/gold Join the discussion and get the ad-free video version of ”The Dustin Gold Standard,” “The Thomas Paine Podcast,” and access to a Facebook-like website and mobile application where you can network and share intelligence with a group of like-minded folks (Join the Hotwire for Mike's highest level of intelligence): Paine.TV/gold Follow Dustin on Twitter: Twitter.com/dustingoldshow and Twitter.com/hackableanimal Get involved with the Telegram discussion: https://t.me/dustingoldshow Join in on live audio conversations: https://wisdom.app/dustingoldshow Ask a question and get a 60-second answer from me: https://wisdom.app/dustingoldshow/ask Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In Episode 88 of "The Dustin Gold Standard," Dustin and special guest Wide Awake Jim dive deeper into the Climate Change Hustle and prove that the perpetrators of this international grift know damn well that fossil fuel production continues to grow through 2050 and beyond. The elites have no plans to actually decrease production of fossil fuels. They are lying to all of us. This plan isn't just about the short term grift, the elites are going to use this scheme to drive us into carbon credit based Universal Basic Income and Central Bank Digital Currency. Donate to Dustin to help him continue to bring you this level of daily content and keep food on his family's table: https://donorbox.org/dustingoldshow TO CONNECT WITH JIM, JOIN Paine.TV/gold, Direct Message @GOLD and I will share a link to his profile TO GET ACCESS TO THE VIDEO VERSION OF THIS PODCAST AND ACCESS TO ALL OF THE CHARTS AND GRAPHS, JOIN Paine.TV/gold Join the discussion and get the ad-free video version of ”The Dustin Gold Standard,” “The Thomas Paine Podcast,” and access to a Facebook-like website and mobile application where you can network and share intelligence with a group of like-minded folks (Join the Hotwire for Mike's highest level of intelligence): Paine.TV/gold Follow Dustin on Twitter: Twitter.com/dustingoldshow and Twitter.com/hackableanimal Get involved with the Telegram discussion: https://t.me/dustingoldshow Join in on live audio conversations: https://wisdom.app/dustingoldshow Ask a question and get a 60-second answer from me: https://wisdom.app/dustingoldshow/ask Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Tony Jones Show #216 - With music from: Radio Compass, The Dandy Highwaymen, Deer Tick, The Schemers, Jonee Earthquake Band, Sasquatch and the Sick-a-Billys, The Devil's Twins, 61 Ghosts, The Knightsville Butchers, Damone, Nova One, Only on Weekends, Glenn Robinson, Six Star General, Sunshine Riot, The Sheila Divine, The Callouts.

Discussion of The Time of Contempt, Chapter 3 Throw on you party dresses and chug some enchanted wine – it's time for some palace intrigue! This devious dinner party is a showcase for Sapkowski's multi-layered dialogue, which reveals a wealth of information about dozens of characters. Old friends and rivals appear, a new villain is introduced, and Yennefer and Geralt's relationship goes to the next level. The only thing this Gatsby-esque party is missing is Jay himself. Schemers, deceivers, and 1,000-year-old wizards fill the magnificent halls of this chapter – and make us extra nervous for the coming conclave. Subscribe to our Substack here: https://secondbreakfastpod.substack.com/ Feedback & Theories: secondbreakfastpod@gmail.com Instagram & TikTok: @secondbreakfastpod Cam's Work: https://www.cameronfucile.com/

What's this?! A Reel History spin off? A special feature? Well, whatever we're calling it, we're dropping one or two experimental episodes between seasons. We've been busy cooking up season 3 and it's creeping closer by the day, so it's well past time to start releasing these! First off is a breakdown of the Top... The post History Top 5 – Schemers first appeared on Shows What You Know.

Dave McLean - who these days is the manager of internationally recognized band, Placebo, and in the past has worked with Green Day, Nirvana, and The Smashing Pumpkins is making his directorial debut with, SCHEMERS a film based on his own life story. On this episode Dave shares how he found his career path, the ups and downs of the music industry and what keeps him going.  To connect with Dave follow him on Twitter @schemersmovie or on Instagram @davefromthedee.  Tell us what you want to hear...fill out our questionnaire! https://forms.gle/pLHjHLtv1SkgHRpF9Shop Bent Beauty 25% off Coupon Code: OHHELLNOSupport the show

Music promoter Dave McLean chats with Andy about the story behind his movie "Schemers," the unintended consequences of running a show, paying Iron Maiden with lunch and feeling like a vampire. Intro music is "String Anticipation" by Cory Gray.

Legendary music promoter and manager Dave McLean - who these days is the manager of internationally recognized band, Placebo, and in the past has worked with Green Day, Nirvana, and The Smashing PumpkinsSCHEMERS, based on his own screenplay the film tells of young Dave's rise in the music tour game when he brings international superstars Iron Maiden to the small town of Dundee. It is based on McLean's life.Davie is a dreamer - a tycoon-to-be who is constantly hustling for his next buck. Determined not to rot away in an office or in a factory he will do anything to avoid a real job. With his promising football career ending in tatters after an injury, and while recovering in the hospital, Davie falls in love with beautiful trainee nurse Shona. Although he may not be suited for academia, and in an attempt to impress Shona, Davie discovers he can certainly turn a fast buck running discos. Together with bold and business savvy friend John and utilizing the shadier talents of a young mate Scot, the trio try and fail various schemes. With gangsters, games, girls and an increasingly despairing father on his case, Davie needs to use all his tricks to pull off the biggest scheme of his life - or it could be his last.http://rivermanbangkok.comThe Douglas Coleman Show now offers audio and video promotional packages for music artists as well as video promotional packages for authors. Please see our website for complete details. http://douglascolemanshow.comIf you have a comment about this episode or any other, please click the link below.https://ratethispodcast.com/douglascolemanshow

As March drew to a close, Mutual Broadcasting's Frank Hemingway took to the air on March 30th with the evening news from KHJ in Los Angeles. ___________ With the hydrogen bomb in development, Russia wanted to join NATO. In Washington, President Eisenhower was making changes to the Taft-Hartley Labor Law. And in present-day Vietnam, a massive battle was taking place at the French military base at Dien Bien Phu. The March 30th news broadcast hinted at things to come. ___________ Next time on Breaking Walls, April ushers in the Army-McCarthy Hearings, Presidential Speeches, Schemers, Slanderers, Nude Prowlers, and even a Benny Seance.