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Segueing from Fr. Harry's observations about worship in the last episode on his pilgrimage on Mt. Athos, Fr. Harry leads us in a discussion of the various positions of prayer (and there's more to it than standing and prostrations). Enjoy the show!

After a brief refresher of the last four parts, Rabbi Steve Berkson continues in Matthew 6:24, making the point that there are those who would start teaching at this verse. He states that when other teachers skip ahead in this chapter, some of the meaning of what Yeshua was getting across to his followers would be lost without the context of the previous twenty-three verses. Matthew 6:24 states a basic relational principle–that you cannot serve two masters. In this situation, as Rabbi Steve points out, it's a question of who are you trying to please or impress, man or Elohim? If you try to please both, you will become frustrated, ending up pleasing nobody because of how opposed each party is to the other. Yeshua is making the point that it is impossible. Then, moving into verses 25-34, Rabbi Berkson begins a section on something that all of us can succumb to – worry. Yet, Yeshua assures and comforts us with the knowledge that we are the most important to our Father in all of his creation. Regarding worry, Rabbi Steve discusses what he calls a “problem with husbands and wives.” He provides excellent counsel on the dynamics of the spousal relationship. He also encourages and exhorts you to become the man or woman that Yah intended you to be–the journey starts from where you are today. Segueing into Matthew 11:28-30, Rabbi Berkson points out that Yeshua is speaking discipleship language when he talks about taking His yoke upon you. Taking on the yoke and burden of Yeshua is also the solution to worry. Rabbi Steve gives an unexpected and exciting perspective on the word ‘light' in verse 30. Moving forward, Rabbi Berkson links Yeshua's teaching with Paul's words in 2 Corinthians 6:1 through 7:2, as Paul writes to his assembly in Corinth about being ‘yoked' or learning from unbelievers. • What is a “believer”? • What does it mean to be “lawless”? Once again, Rabbi Steve Berkson delves deeper into scripture to uncover more dimensions of Darkness and Light. Take advantage of new content every week. To learn more about MTOI, visit our website, https://mtoi.org. https://www.facebook.com/mtoiworldwide https://www.instagram.com/mtoi_worldwide https://www.tiktok.com/@mtoi_worldwide You can contact MTOI by emailing us at admin@mtoi.org or calling 423-250-3020. Join us for Shabbat Services and Torah Study LIVE, streamed on our YouTube and Rumble channels every Saturday at 1:15 p.m. and every Friday for Torah Study Live Stream at 7:30 p.m. Eastern time.

In this episode of the Decorating Pages Podcast, We discuss the Production Design film study of 1975 . Join host Kim Wannop and Production Designer Adam Rowe dissect the Oscar-nominated designs and the technological feats of that year. Our discussion highlights "The Hindenburg," where Kim Wannop reveals intriguing construction details and production challenges while Adam Rowe reflects on the film's poor reception and technological marvels. The episode also shines a light on the film "The Man Who Would Be King," where both hosts share their appreciation for its impressive production and the gripping narrative that unfolds in the last 45 minutes, despite a slow pace. Segueing into "Shampoo," the duo discusses the intricately designed salon set and how the film encapsulates the essence of 1975 Los Angeles. From appreciating the nuances of production design to critiquing the narrative, Kim admits her personal struggles with enjoying the film despite its exquisite visuals. Tune in as Adam Rowe ignites a conversation about the balance between box office popularity and design excellence.The discussion further leads to the importance of recognizing innovative design in award shows, a sentiment echoed as they anticipate the trend-setting potential of upcoming films like the "Barbie" movie. This episode doesn't shy away from praising the storytelling and production wizardry of '70s films, with a special nod to "Barry Lyndon" for its magnificent use of natural light and candle-lit scenes—a testament to its Oscar-winning production design. From discussing the historical portrayal in "The Hindenburg," to exploring the evocative sets of "The Sunshine Boys," Wannop and Rowe reveal their awe for the detailed craftsmanship of these classic films. Don't miss this insightful journey into the aesthetics of an era where every frame was a painting, and the production design was as much a character as the stars themselves. The 1975 Production DesignFilm Study episode is a masterclass in design storytelling that celebrates the visionaries behind the camera. Join us on the Decorating Pages Podcast for this illuminating discussion that bridges the gap between set decoration's past and present. Are you a fan of TV and film production? Do you love learning about the behind-the-scenes work that goes into creating your favorite shows and movies? Then you need to check out the Decorating Pages podcast! As an Emmy-winning set decorator, host Kim Wannop brings a wealth of knowledge and experience to each episode, featuring interviews with some of the top names in the industry. From production designers to set decorators to prop masters, each guest offers a unique perspective on the art and craft of visual storytelling. Whether you're a film buff, a design enthusiast, or just love hearing fascinating behind-the-scenes stories, the Decorating Pages podcast is a must-listen. So why wait? Subscribe now and get ready to take a deep dive into the world of TV and film production! #DecoratingPagesPodcast #TVProduction #FilmProduction #BehindTheScenes #VisualStorytelling #SetDecorator #ProductionDesigner #PropMaster #DesignEnthusiast #FilmBuff #PodcastLove #SubscribeNow Subscribe to Decorating Pages Podcast on Apple, Spotify, Pandora, Stitcher, TuneIn Radio,iHeartRadio Follow at: @decoratingpages on Twitter decoratingpages on IG Decorating Pages Podcast on YouTube @decoratingpagespodcast on TicTok Contact Kim Wannop at kimwannop@decoratingpagespodcast.com www.decoratingpagespodcast.com

  For the first time ever, parents going through IVF can use whole genome sequencing to screen their embryos for hundreds of conditions. Harness the power of genetics to keep your family safe, with Orchid. Check them out at orchidhealth.com. In this episode, Razib talks to Wilfred Reilly, political scientist, author and fearless cultural commentator. Reilly holds a Ph.D. in political science from Southern Illinois and a J.D. from the University of Illinois. Raised in a working-class neighborhood on Chicago's South Side, he discusses his ten-year diversion from academia, including his stints as a canvasser for the gay rights group the Human Rights Campaign and a corporate salesperson. A prolific public intellectual, Reilly is the author of Lies My Liberal Teacher Told Me,  Taboo: 10 Facts [You Can't Talk About] and Hate Crime Hoax: How the Left Is Selling a Fake Race War. Razib asks what it means to be a “black conservative,” and Reilly responds that the term brackets all black intellectuals who dissent from the progressive orthodoxy, ranging from rock-ribbed right-wingers like Thomas Sowell to moderate liberals like John McWhorter. They also discuss the excesses of Civil Rights legislation and Richard Hanania's thesis in The Origins of Woke: Civil Rights Law, Corporate America, and the Triumph of Identity Politics that the legal system is geared toward racial progressivism. Reilly believes that wokeness cannot be rolled back until that institutional and legal framework driving for radicalism is neutered. Segueing into the domain of political science, Razib and Reilly discuss the difference between avowed preferences and revealed preferences around issues like abortion and pornography. Both agree ordinary Americans strongly disagree with ideologues who hold extreme policies. Reilly also points out the strangeness that many of the most violent and visible activists during the BLM protests were white, and he holds these are the people who are buying books by radical activist professors like Ibram Kendi, who meanwhile has little real influence among black academics. They also discuss diversity within the black American community, including Laurence Otis Graham's exploration of socioeconomic status in Our Kind of People: Inside America's Black Upper Class. Reilly talks about his more upper-class mother's attempt to inculcate elitism within him, and its failure to stick. Then Razib moots the question of the differences between “American Descendents of Slaves” (ADoS), Africans and Caribbeans, and the fact that Harvard refuses to survey its black students by sub-demographic. Finally, Reilly expounds at length on his “anti-doomer” views, arguing that economic, social and environmental catastrophism is almost always wrong, as well a providing a hearty defense of the cultural richness and economic dynamism of the Midwest.

Julia and Jeremiah from the Sexvangelicals podcast (a podcast for providing the sex education the church didn't want you to have) join Uncertain podcast to discuss how Purity Culture can impact men.Some topics addressed in this episode: Erectile DisfunctionShame around sexSexual Agression Gender Binaries Check out two of the Sexvangelicals' episodes featuring Uncertain's host Katherine Spearing:Episode #53: Kicking Off the New Year with Spiritual Abuse: How to Leave a Controlling Family Environment, with Katherine SpearingEpisode #54: Kicking Off the New Year with Spiritual Abuse: How Romantic Comedies Can Reinforce the Worst Parts of Evangelical Culture, with Katherine Spearing Katherine: [00:00:00] Hello. How are you? Julia: Good. We're excited. Katherine: Yes. It is morning where I am, or early, early, early afternoon, and then it is evening where you all are. I know. So, thanks for giving up your Saturday night.I know you would. Probably normally be out wildly partying, Jeremiah: right? Wildly. The wildest Julia: of parties. Katherine: You in the Netherlands. Jeremiah: That's right. Hanging out with windmills and eating a bunch of cheese. Julia: Today is Sinterklaas and so I have heard that it is a chaotic time to be out. So this is a good day to be inside.We've got tea. It is raining outside. So this is actually a cozy and a Perfect way to send Saturday night. I love Katherine: it. I am so excited to be able to talk to you. I love, I love y'all's podcast episodes. I have recommended them to, I mostly recommend them to friends of mine who are recently [00:01:00] divorced and first exploring.All of the things that they were not allowed to explore pre evangelical marriage. And and so that's a, that's a recommendation y'all are a recommendation that I pass around to some folks. I love your intro. My favorite part about your, your. Podcast episode for listeners is how you, you kind of interview each other and chat like before your episodes, those, those are always really, Jeremiah: yes, absolutely.And we do talk about divorce a lot on our podcast. So, that is unfortunately a part of our story and, and, and how we've come into how we've come into recognizing the impact of purity culture on relationships, so. Is that a part Katherine: of both of your stories? Julia: It is. Yeah. We are both we are both divorced.Katherine: All right. And then, did you all get into doing what you do as sex and relationship therapy post [00:02:00] evangelicalism? Our post? These experiences or was this something that came up before, were you already working in this? Jeremiah: So I, a little bit of both for me. So, I joke with people, except it's not a joke, that I did my first couples therapy session when I was 12.And listeners, you can... Put some of the pieces together. I, so, so I've known for some time that that I wanted to be a couples therapist. Huh. And in the field of psychotherapy there's a specific license for marriage and family therapy. My license is in marriage and family therapy. And a lot of the marriage and family therapy schools are either at these big kind of research schools. So Ohio state has a big program where Julia went Michigan state has one or they're at Christian schools because the history of couples therapy and marriage family [00:03:00] of the history of couples therapy.The history of marriage therapy is pretty closely linked to the Christian community. In fact, our professional organization split in the seventies from the California organization because religious people, the, the pastors spiritual directors in the seventies said like, no, like what's happening in California is too liberal, is too progressive.Let's, let's talk about marriage and let's talk about marriage from the perspective of heteronormativity. And this is. A little bit before James Dobson starts taking over with, with focus on the family, but, but, but it's all connected to that. So. So my graduate program at Abilene Christian University is a Christian university.But interestingly, that was, I would say, probably the beginning of my deconstruction process too. Yeah. Because marriage and family therapy at its root is systems theory. So this idea that everything is interconnected you know, I can't succeed unless you [00:04:00] succeed. We, we talk about this through, through Desmond Tutu's work.And so, so I actually begin realizing, oh, like the church, a lot of the Christian stuff, like, like, isn't really making sense. It's clashing with systems theory. The system stuff makes a lot more sense to me. It connects. The problem is that in my twenties, I am employed by churches. Yeah. I'm, I'm a music my first career is through music ministry.And when I left Texas moved to Boston and very quickly get hired by a church to do music ministry. And so a lot of my thirties, then my early thirties is trying to figure out how to do a systems work. I later discovered sex therapy through, through my office. How to be a sexual health professional and to be a minister at the same time.And I thought I could pull both of them off. The church that I was in worked at claimed to be really [00:05:00] progressive. At the end of the day, I ended up getting fired. I ended up talking about sex therapy too much, made the wrong people uncomfortable, and I get the axe. Oh no! So I end up getting kicked out of Christianity, more so than leaving and choosing not to return to organized religion. Yeah, these Katherine: two things are very connected in your story, like you're very much and your vocation and your deconstruction are, are very entwined. Jeremiah: Absolutely. Julia: Yeah. Minor entwined but in a different way. Catherine when we were interviewing you, you had mentioned something that I could relate to which is the socialization for women to be some sort of caretakers within.fundamentalist, and other evangelical circles. Being a therapist is very much a nurturing type of career. The other career options I had considered were [00:06:00] teaching and nursing, also stereotypically nurturing, stereotypically associated with Christianity. So, I don't know if I would have become a therapist.Had I not grown up in the environment that I did. What a question, right? Right! Ultimately, I love it most of the time, but sex therapy was deeply connected to my deconstruction process. I got married young, at the age of 22. I am divorced and when I got married my world crumbled because I had learned that getting married, getting married young was a rite of passage into adulthood, would be the sign of my worth as a human being, and would ultimately be the way that I could access the sexuality that had been denied to me.And when I got married and I hated sex, when I got married and I didn't experience the desire from my husband that I was told would be [00:07:00] present all the time, because all men ever think about is sex, which I'm sure we'll come back to in this episode. My sense of identity shattered. My sense of identity was always in my purity as a woman, in my ability to perform my gender role, and in being a desirable person, particularly sexually.So I became very distressed and my first years married were awful for me, even though I didn't understand exactly what was happening. Yeah. I did, two years after getting married, find a phenomenal sex therapist in Boston. I will always give Nancy McGrath a huge amount of credit for my individual and relational growth.She was an amazing sex therapist, an amazing couples therapist. And my ex husband and I made a lot of progress, even though we did choose to get married. And just to get divorced. Yes. Yes. Even though my ex husband and I choose to got [00:08:00] divorced, choose to get divorced. And as I was continuing to grow, as I was continuing to heal, my therapist said, I was already a practicing therapist.She said, if you decided to become a sex therapist, you would be a great sex therapist. And that was such an affirming and healing moment for me in my sex therapy training. I admitted to myself and my therapist for the first time that I didn't want to be married. And so sex therapy training was really like the last Jenga piece that caused the tower to shatter.I wasn't an active member of a religious community when I participated in sex therapy training, but I still was. Connected to the religious world. And I was still married to my ex husband. And because I was married to a Christian man, I had status in my family system and I had status in all kinds of other systems.And then I lost my status within my family. [00:09:00] I lost my status within my community. My divorce was fodder for gossip at a funeral and becoming a sex therapist and ultimately getting divorced was what broke my connection to that world. Katherine: Woo! Goodness. Goodness. So this is somewhat of a rhetorical question that I know the answer to, but I still want to hear your answer.How interconnected is sex? To personhood and relational dynamics itself. How often do you see that connection? Jeremiah: Strongly. Strongly. Well, so, so there's two, two categories of that. In religious communities, absolutely strongly. We, we could talk maybe about the, the, the professional kind of non religious universal relationship about that later, but in the religious context very strongly, Julia: yeah.And I would say outside of religious contexts, [00:10:00] yes, but in a different way. So, when my, when I say that my sense of self crumbled after getting married, a big piece of that was sexuality. And so... I will sometimes have folks come to sex therapy in similar positions as me, and the couple might say something like, but it's just sex, and we still love each other, and I have a good life in all these kinds of ways, but it's not just sex for anyone.Sex is never just sex for anyone, but especially if you grow up in an adverse or religiously abusive context, sex is actually everything. And I'm not joking when I say everything. So if you get married and sex is painful physically or emotionally or relationally, that can have massive consequences in all areas of your life.Katherine: Right. Mm. So when you are a sex therapist and folks come to you for difficulties and [00:11:00] challenges within their sex life, very regularly, there's more happening and in their lives and in their relationships. Absolutely. Jeremiah: Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So, so there's a couple of things that, that come up one. Sex isn't talked about in a lot of, in a lot of couples, obviously it's not talked about at all in religious couples.Sex with each other, like they don't talk about it. That's right, that's right. Yes, yes, the church talks a lot a lot about sex. But the church doesn't give partners the tools or the skills to be able to talk about sexuality with each other. And if they do it's almost exclusively from the perspective of quantity, meaning how much do you want to have it?Yes. And from the perspective of performing gender roles where men are expected to have high volumes of sexual desire, interest, and women are expected to be asexual yet to conform to the, the needs of male partners.[00:12:00] The second way that, that this shows up is around just in, in general,, if a couple doesn't have the skills and resources to talk about sexuality, what else do they not have the skills and resources to talk about?Katherine: Right. Julia: Yeah. A whole lot of other things. That's right. Money, or child rearing, or household management. How to Jeremiah: deal with families of origin. So a lot of stuff gets avoided, and there's a lot of conflict avoidance that we find. And the second thing is that for the couples who are able to talk about sex and sexuality, there's a lot of variance regarding sex.Sex can mean a lot of different things to a lot of different people. Culturally speaking, sex is often thought of as a euphemism for intercourse. Julia: Vaginally penetrative intercourse. That is Jeremiah: correct. Yes. But what Julia, you and I talk about is that there's a lot of different ways that bodies can connect.Sometimes [00:13:00] involving a vaginal intercourse, sometimes not involving vaginal intercourse. Let's talk about all of it and let's talk about all of it from the perspective of like what kinds of touch do you want? And then also, how do you want that touch to happen? How do you, what do you need before your body gets the touch that it wants?There's a lot of different variables that Julia, you and I talk about, and that's on an individual level. And in couple therapy, of course, there's two people. So the ways that I go about sex are going to be different Julie from the ways that you go about sex. And, and then the work is, is how do we then make how do we make arrangements?How do we make agreements about? How to do sex, how to do anything, but for the sake of this conversation, how to do sex in a pleasurable, in a pleasurable way for both people. Yeah. Katherine: Yeah. So many, I'm like, as y'all are talking, I'm like, question, question, question, question, question, question. I Julia: know, that happens to me too.I was telling Jeremiah after our interview with [00:14:00] you and we took a bathroom break, I was like, I had 20 more questions to ask for Katherine: each episode. Well that just means that we have a podcasting relationship and we will do more episodes together in the future. This is the one, one, one, one interview I've already decided five minutes in.One interview is not enough. But one of the things that I wanted to focus on for this specific, this specific episode there is so much, and this is even just for me personally so much, uploaded A literature right now about how purity culture impacts women and women in relationships and what that does to marriages and dating and recovery after purity culture.I this is just, you know, a regular topic of conversation with my between myself and my peers. I was in a, I'm in a, like a [00:15:00] sort of deconstruction group. I call us the Renegades. And we met a couple Saturday nights ago and everyone's at different phases in their, their deconstruction.They're also at different phases in their sexuality and their sexuality exploration. And I just asked them just like a very, like, simple question of like, what would have been different? If you had been raised with like the full gamut of the feast in front of you and like that was the class that you got in Sunday school, as opposed to don't have sex.And then that's the end of it. And then also just for the subject of our conversation too, I asked them very specifically about what, so in evangelicalism, It's cisgender binaries of male and female, and you and there's no other category. And so I asked them very specifically, how did that impact you and this was all people who these are all [00:16:00] people who identify as, as, as female, and then how intricately connected that binary that gender binary is to this messaging.And so a question for you all when you meet with couples that come out of evangelicalism, what role does that binary play? In your conversations and, and for good or ill. Jeremiah: Sure. I'll start. And then I'm curious about how you'd answer that too. Again, a lot of folks coming out of evangelical systems don't have the relationship skills of the negotiation skills to figure out how to navigate one, how to navigate differences and to how to make decisions about a relationship based on their own preferences.So in the absence of that, they rely on gender roles. They rely on the performance of gender roles to [00:17:00] create expectations for, say, how administration gets done, how sex gets done, how parenting gets done, and there's a lot of resentment that is, that is there because Even though these things, these positions were assumed there weren't overt conversations about how to how to enact these you know, women and men both, like, they, they don't make verbal agreements to each other in the, in these contexts about Well, hey as, as a female partner, I absolutely want to do this particular thing as a male partner.I absolutely want to do these things. It's you should do these things. Yes. And any conversation that happens centers around the should. Like you Katherine: should do these things, not I would prefer that I do. That's right. Okay. Right. Absolutely. So one of the Jeremiah: things, Julia, you and I do with with regards to the binary is we do whatever we can to get rid of it.Katherine: I love that. Jeremiah: Yeah, [00:18:00] how would you answer that? I would Julia: agree with that. I'm sure that I'll have more to say as Katherine keeps asking questions, but the first part is recognizing What we learned about gender and how that has then impacted the relationship and what are the structures and systems and patterns that the couple falls back to.And if anyone has ever gone sledding in the winter, you know that once you've got a path that's slick, it's really hard to set a new path. So even if, like Jeremiah said, the gender roles are causing some resentment. I imagine that my ex husband probably developed some resentment around what gender role looked like for him.I had my own resentment around what that looked like for me. We didn't get ahead of the resentment by talking about it and negotiating it until it was too late. And even though that wasn't working for either one of us, it [00:19:00] was like a very slick... path down a sledding hill. And if you want something different, you've got to take that sled, move it to a new part of the hill, put it in snow that hasn't been down, and you've got to do a lot of hard work to create a new path that works.Katherine: Yes, absolutely. And it sounds like from both of your stories that sometimes that new path is a new relationship. Julia: Yes. Jeremiah: Sometimes. In our case, yes. Julia: Yeah. Go ahead. Yeah. Sometimes it is a new relationship. Sometimes it is hard work with a current partner. And sometimes it is... Being a person who is partnered with multiple people or being a person who is dating and not partnered.Mm-Hmm. So it can look all different kinds of ways. When we talk about our podcast having a relational bent what we mean is that we live in relationships with all kinds of people. Mm-Hmm. That might mean [00:20:00] starting a new path on a new hill and your family's on another hill and they're like, you abandoned us.Katherine: What's going on? Yes. Yes. Absolutely. No, I love that. I love that. And that, that expands sexuality and relationships in general, because even, even if you have this dynamic within this couple, like our sexuality impacts how we interact with everyone. It's not just our intimate partner. And I've really enjoyed it.My. deconstruction journey, learning about that because it just expands possibilities and, and just, it makes it just beautiful and vibrant. And like, there's so much here and, and so very sad and also very angry at how narrow. The teaching that I received was and how very specific and gendered it was and, so sad.And then also just like, it's a [00:21:00] fucking lie. And yet. The we'll get in all of this, but just like the, the, the conservative agenda behind that lie and unpacking that as well. And, and having that just opportunity to grieve the opportunities that I was denied. And I know that's a part of me.So many people's journeys of just like grieve, grieving this, this loss that happened. How did that play out for both of you? Julia: The grief part or a different Katherine: part? Great. Yeah. Just the grieving. If, if that was a part of your journey. Jeremiah: Oh, I think it still is a part of our journey. Yeah. I think you and I both make reference.I'm trying to remember the last time you and I both made references to our former partners. It's been within the last week. . And, and reflecting about the sadness of, of, of painful things that, that we received. Even painful things that we said missed [00:22:00] opportunities. Mm-Hmm. To to explore and, and to have conversations that, that we didn't get the chance to have.Mm-Hmm. that the church didn't want us to have. Mm-Hmm. . So, yeah. Yeah, that comes up quite a bit. Yeah. Julia: I I haven't even mentioned this to Jeremiah yet, but. Something that I say when I talk about getting divorced is that my ex husband is a really phenomenal human being. And I am, I am sad that the education neither of us received, probably to a large, large part, impacted our decision to get divorced.I am rarely on social media because it is too overwhelming for me. However, I saw that my ex husband recently celebrated his two year anniversary to his new wife. And I imagine that he is an even better partner, probably, than he was with me. Not because he wasn't a good partner to me, [00:23:00] but because he has had life to grow and evolve and learn.And... I am very happy that he is in a partnership that seems to be really beautiful for him. And I am still, I'm still really sad. I'm sad that that relationship ended. I'm sad about the ways that I contributed to hurt. I am sad about the ways that I was hurt. And I know that I will probably think about my ex spouse to some degree.Daily or often for the rest of my life. Katherine: Yeah. Yeah. Because it, it, it doesn't just go away. Deca, deconstructing and rewiring those sled paths. It's not just a, like a one and done thing. Right. Jeremiah: Well, and it also happens while Julia, you and I are also figuring out our relationship and experiencing these really beautiful [00:24:00] moments that we have.And. Kind of hashing out how we want to do different things. Grief doesn't happen in this, like, process where you take a pause from life and you go off and, and, and you grieve for an extended amount of time. Like, grief happens in the midst of these concurrent processes that, that are happening in a person's life.And, and that, that makes it even more Julia: challenging. Yeah. And I can't grieve the end of my marriage without ultimately grieving The systems that raised me, the systems that conditioned if conditioned early marriage, the systems that taught me about what dating and marriage looked like. So whenever I consider my ex husband, whenever I consider the pain or the joy that we experienced, I, I'm unable to separate that from the lack of relational and sexual health education.From the religious systems in my life. Yes. [00:25:00] Yes. Katherine: And how just so entwined those two things are and and just the reality of like those, those indentions in the snow are going to be so much more defined when it's coming from. religious space. This is what God wants from you. This is what requires from you.And then everything in that system upholds that and supports it. And these things are very deeply embedded into us and is the soup that we swim in. And so I'm really excited to just get into some practical stuff and maybe provide a little bit of a resource for folks. I would like to concentrate our our conversation on specifically.How purity culture impacts men in, in these relationships. And I, I will, we'll, we'll just start with the, with the. Typical trajectory. How, how does does purity culture show up and impact men in dating relationships? Julia: Yeah, [00:26:00] something that I say on almost every podcast is that one of the biggest double binds or mind fucks that men experience in evangelical and other Christian cultures is that they are They're sexual aggressors, and that is the way that God made them, and they are supposed to, they should lean into that, and at the same time, that is part of their evil base nature, and they have to fight it.Mm hmm. That is. An impossible, impossible place to live to be told that you've got to lean in and embrace this, but that also this is the most debased part of who you are and that shows up in a myriad of contexts. Katherine: Do you feel like. Men tend to migrate towards one or the [00:27:00] other because of that double bind.Julia: That's a good question. Good question. I would say that I've noticed men... Jeremiah: I have a Julia: way of answering that. I've got an idea, but you go first because I'm still formulating it. Jeremiah: I would say that... Men who are interested in men who are interested in kind of reinforcing the gender hierarchies tend to lean more into kind of the Kind of the ownership of sexuality and, and then also the conflict in that, that, that can come from fromadvocating for that. I would say that men who want more egalitarian relationships. Especially in, in opposite sex context. I think that those are men who tend to struggle with that that the double bind Julia, that you're referring to a little bit [00:28:00] more and as a result 10, those relationships tend to have a little bit more avoidance to them.That's anecdotal. I don't know if that, I don't have any research to support that. I would Julia: say my anecdotal experience is mostly similar and I really appreciate the theme of this episode because I, I work with a lot of couples, but I also, for probably lots of different reasons, have many individual male clients between the ages of like 25 to 37.So we talk about this. a lot. And the really challenging part is that the gender binaries that we've described means that the misogyny reinforces the, or the, sorry, the the misandry towards men that they are sexual monsters that reinforces the misogyny and the sexism. And [00:29:00] then the misogyny continues to perpetuate this patriarchal pattern.Which is such an awful systemic issue. Yeah. Yeah. And so often the misandry and the misogyny are just like fucking having this orgasm together. Sadly. What Jeremiah: is the image of the orgasm? Like Katherine: they're feeding each other. Yeah. Satisfying Julia: each other. Right, and so I absolutely want to keep on the topic that you're describing, and I've been reflecting quite a bit on like specific impacts for men, and I think we have to still acknowledge at the beginning that all of the negative consequences towards men Still continue to hurt the entire relational structure and still continue to [00:30:00] prop up the, the sexist and misogynist norms of the patriarchy.Jeremiah: Can I give an example about that that doesn't involve sex? Sure, yeah, yeah. So, I'm seven and Enneagram? No, no, no. Age 7. Enneagram 3. Oh, Katherine: okay. Oh, oh, sorry. You're about to tell a story. Yes. Started when you were 7. Jeremiah: Yes, yes. So, I'm 7 years old. Julia: I knew where that was going, but it was confusing. Jeremiah: I'm 7 years old.And I am at a part of of a Bible study that a few of my families do on Wednesday nights, because heaven forbid, we don't have some sort of a church service two to three times a week. And at this particular group from time to time, I would be I would be the only boy that was there, only penis owner that was there.So my dad had to work or that was at least his excuse for, for not showing up. [00:31:00] I made a similar excuse. So some of the other men had to, had to work. So it was the mom's wives all the kids were little girls and me. And so at seven, I remember the women in the church and this group saying, it's a devotional time at Jeremiah because you're the boy you have to lead the songs.Okay. So little seven year old me like leads a song. Can you do an example of your accent? Oh, so I grew up in Texas. I had a. Thick southern accents, very flat vowels. My name had three syllables on it. Sometimes it had two syllables, Jerma. But, then they say, okay, well, you have to leave the scripture.You have to lead the prayer. And, you know, I know that I am not the only boy who has been in that [00:32:00] experience who learned early on that, that men and women look to boys to provide quote leadership and running shit. And that's something that is still to this day, something that. I, I make the assumption that people will look to me.Men and women will look to me to run things. I step into leadership roles and, and a lot of my healing work has been giving myself permission to, to, to step out of that. And, and, and I'm good at it. I, I think that I have I enjoy being in control more than I think sometimes I would like to admit, I've also taught you and I've both actually taught Julia with plenty of men who have had similar experiences and don't want any part of that.Yeah. Right. And, and play those roles both out of a sense of obligation to the system and also do so in a way that's antithetical to their own personality traits and to their preferences. They'd much rather play a more passive role, just kind of sit [00:33:00] back, kind of watch the world kind of do its thing.And, and, and they don't know what to do. We actually had an interview quite recently on our podcast with, with a couple of men actually for, for whom that was true. So yeah, so, so the expectation then that men are not just like sexual monsters or sexual initiators, but are initiators of any kind of process with, with the exception of domestic administrative processes, which is a whole other conversation we can get into in a bit.Except for cooking and cleaning. Yeah, right. And mending the stockings. Right, right. But yeah, that's, that's, that's a lot of pressure. That is a lot of pressure. That, that men get put on and it also, it also discourages men from moving into collaborative spaces. Hmm. This is something you and I actually Katherine: May I, may I pause here for just one [00:34:00] moment because one of the things that I have noticed in this, in the space that I work in the spiritual abuse realm.Is that same thing we were talking about a podcast earlier, talking on our interview earlier about art and being ingrained with this mistrust of art. I also believe men get ingrained with this mistrust of women and how I, my work is predominantly women coming to me one because women are. You know, it's more acceptable for women to look for help and to want to collaborate one.And then two, it's a woman run organization, like we have one male board member, but other than that, like, it is run by women, and they're not going to migrate. And I know this because I watched them migrate to the Wade Mullins and the other male leaders and and not migrate to the women, because it's still just [00:35:00] ingrained into.The physique. Yeah, Jeremiah: I actually think that Catherine that that's another double bind is that I agree with you that men that that this system that we're talking about you know, where Men are expected to be in leadership positions. Women from time to time reinforce that. And there's also plenty of women that are like, Hey, no, this doesn't work for me.And then figuring out how to navigate those differences. I think that that's right, that that there are a lot of men who mistrust women and simultaneously. I don't think that men really trust men any better either. And I think that this is actually true, Julie, with what you're talking about with your, your clients.Men are much more likely to seek an individual female sex therapist for individual therapy than they are to seek an individual male for individual therapy. Julia: Really? Absolutely. But, but I want to qualify something that you said. I think you said that [00:36:00] men are equally less likely to trust other men. I would say men.might be unwilling to trust men when it comes to kind of emotional issues because men are far more likely to trust men in more stereotypical leadership positions. But in terms of like the caretaking therapy to some degree has a caretaking element to it. And so I think that men Are uncomfortable talking about sex in general.Many people are. That's not a misandrist comment. And I think it can be easier for individual men to talk to a woman about sex than a man. I don't know if seeking a female therapist for couples or family therapy is as oriented. Not for couples and family therapy. But I think that. They're going to go Katherine: to a man.Julia: Right. Because, because, because of what you're describing, Catherine, around like trusting men in these [00:37:00] forward facing leadership positions in a family or couples therapy is more forward facing, so men are more quote unquote reliable. But if it's an individual context in which. There's the assumption that emotional nurture might be more a part of it.I think that men could be more prone to seeking a woman, just to seek a woman. But all of this goes back to Catherine, exactly what you're describing around men needing to be in over leadership positions. And Jeremiah, you use the word passive growing up in my community. Passive was used as derogatory.Yeah. And that a passive man was not a man. Right. So books like Wild at Heart and pour into my community every man Battle to fight, beauty to save. Yeah. Yeah. Every everyman's battle was popular in my community and it was all about, [00:38:00] men being assertive at best, aggressive, dominant, violent at worst, and I'm even thinking about, like, my dad, and my dad is not a particularly dominant person.If my parents were out of their religious system, I would probably ask my dad what that was like because I wonder if it was really hard to be in a system in which you were told that you had to be so overtly dominant when that wasn't part of your nature. Katherine: Yeah, I'm thinking about the women that I met with.That I referred to earlier and, and they just said how most of their relationships sort of defaulted into a functionally egalitarian relationship while they still espoused complimentary and they just [00:39:00] didn't tell anybody. I think Julia: that's, I think that's how my parents marriage operates. And I think that's how Jeremiah: my ex's parents.Julia: Many relationships operate. Yeah. Jeremiah: Oh, yeah. Hmm. That would be interesting to do research Julia: on. Just a clarifying Katherine: question about men seeking out a female sex therapist, more likely to seek out a female sex therapist. Is it possible that there's some shame? In that too of they're not going to talk to another man to admit that they struggle.Yes. Julia: I can give a great example. So I had a male client and I've had several iterations of this. And he came to therapy seeking help for quote unquote, erectile dysfunction. Diagnostic language around sexual health is so damaging to men and women. So I would never use that language of erectile dysfunction, but that was his language to me.That's why I'm using it. what I would say is that [00:40:00] sexuality had some challenges for him. And one of those challenges was having the erections that he wanted to have. So we tried to get away from diagnostic language as much as possible, but. He told me that it would be one of the most shaming things possible to have a conversation with another male about about sexual health in general, particularly because men learn in and outside of religious structures that part of sexual dominance is having a specific type of erection in a specific kind of way.And that is not how erections work for many, if not all people. We could have a whole con, a whole longer conversation about erections and what men learn about their penises and what they learn about erections. It might be even worthwhile later in our conversation, but [00:41:00] over time, I really encouraged this client to talk to some of his male friends about sexuality and what was working and not working for him.And one day he came into therapy and he was like, Julia. I had a conversation with one of my male friends about sex, and it was one of the most meaningful conversations that I've ever had. And If more men talked with each other about sexuality in non toxic, dominant ways, I believe that would be massively healing towards humanity in general, regardless of gender.If the shame was stopping him. Katherine: Yeah, and I just think about how... So much of the sexual conversations for men was accountability oriented and like, how are you guarding your eyes? And how are you guarding your heart? And, you know, you know, documenting how often you masturbate and all of these like [00:42:00] very shaming?So I can see that being so just so damaging for it Julia: is. And it's so it can I say one other thing about this. It's really interesting because in another conversation, the three of us talked about how the church is not as counter cultural as they think they are.But one of the main themes is this idea of like, You. In these cases, like, the humanity of women being fairly non existent, so in secular world, that means you just keep track of how many women you have sex with, and like, they are a number to you, and you want to get as high as possible, and then Catherine, what you're describing, when men are told to, you know, document how time, how many times they masturbate and then confess to another man and like not look at another woman.It's still like this idea of like women being objects. We had a conversation several podcasts [00:43:00] ago with our friends. Sarah and... Jake. Yeah. And, and Jake was describing about, you know, going to Six Flags as a youth group. And it's like, there's gonna be a lot of boobs out there.They wouldn't have said it that way. And it's like, just avoid the boobs. Like, and, and without any conversation that these are 13 to 16 year old girls. They are not walk Sets of boobs. Yeah. But whether they're children, right? Mm-Hmm. . And so, in and outside of these contexts, women are these vessels that you either have to conquer or avoid until you get married.And you have to document how you're either like dominating or avoiding Mm-hmm. in this really restrictive version of what it means to be a man. And in either context. You are essentially a sexual monster who is either dominating and giving in to the, like, desires of the flesh, or you're working really hard to, like, fight your sin nature, and that makes you a good Jeremiah: man.And we have language for [00:44:00] this. Sex addict. Right. So so Joshua Grubbs is a researcher at Bowling Green and he has produced several articles about this that the majority of men who identify as sex addicts also have a high degree of religiosity. Oh and so the idea connected is absolutely so well, and it's, and it's connected back even to like to seven year old Jeremiah too, that, that, that, that the problem must be me.I am a sexual monster as opposed to men coming together, talking together, Julia, like what you're saying. And talking about the fucked up positions that that, that the fucked up things that men learned about their bodies, the fucked up things that men learned about women's bodies and how we all want to, how we all want to do better in our own relationships, same sex relationships, opposite sex relationships, sexual relationships, non sexual [00:45:00] relationships.Yeah. And Katherine: maybe it's not a, and I feel like I've, I've approached it. What was brought into that in a little different perspective through the trauma lens of just like addiction itself, typically, or what we call addiction typically developed out of trauma and religiosity itself typically develops out of trauma and and having and having that you know, stuff ingrained into your mind. It's not like, and, and approaching it like a, a, where you like have all of these steps and you have all of these, you know, accountability things that you're supposed to do, but then you you're not addressing the stuff underneath it and the trauma that is, Jeremiah: well, and I think that that's right.And, and I think that. It's one thing to address that trauma in a professional context. I think it's a completely different thing to address that trauma in relationships with other people who've gone through a similar thing. [00:46:00] Yeah. And that's, from my perspective, that's why the relational perspective is so, it's so powerful.Mm hmm. As the capacity to help, for the sake of our conversations, kind of men get out of some of these double binds and the shame that accompanies that double bind. Mm hmm. In, in, in more meaningful, kind of longer lasting ways. Right. Julia: Right. And the language around. Addiction also focuses on behavior versus value.So, so I will always ask clients, what does sex mean, if a person is talking about sex, if a person comes in and says that they are a sexual addict, I will ask what that means. And typically they might say, Well, I masturbate or I watch pornography. And so, so we'll talk, we'll be like, okay, so let's, let's put porn on the side.Let's put masturbation on the side as a behavior. And let's talk about like what [00:47:00] the values are. I had a really interesting client, former client who was a seminarian. And and he Had reached out to me because he thought that I was a Christian sex therapist, and I explained, I said, I am not. I said, I actually am not a part of any religious communities, but I have an understanding of Christian culture so I work with a lot of folks in this area.And I think it spoke to volumes of this client that he said, Okay, I'll work with you. with you because typically working with a secular therapist, that's like scary. And it was so interesting because he had a lot of shame around masturbation and he had a lot of shame around pornography. And we had this conversation and I said, okay.Tell me about what your sexual values are without moralistic language and without behavior language. So he talked about sex being a form of connection, and he talked about sexuality being [00:48:00] sacred, and he talked about a few other values. And I said, that's so interesting. I said, huh, I actually think almost all of the values that you have.I hold two. And, and then it was the conversation around, okay, so if sex, whether it's with yourself or someone else, if it's a form of connection, like, What does that mean? How can you enact that? If sexuality on your own or with someone else is a sacred thing, like what does that mean? And I think a big piece of work for men in Christian communities is getting out of the behavior obsession, which isn't their fault.And thinking about the value moving away from the quality of an erection, moving away from whether or not you masturbate and or watch pornography and moving about, like, what are the values that you have around your bodies about gender, about women, about men, and then like rethinking what sexuality can look like.And Jeremiah: we talk about this, [00:49:00] Julia, in our series on Sex Evangelicals The Sex Education We Wish We Had in which we talk about the sexual health principles or values from the work of Doug Brown Harvey around consent, non exploitation, conversation about contraceptions and STIs, honesty, shared values, and mutual pleasure.I love it. Those are the values that we tend to start from. But also, Julia, your question, being able to ask, what are your values as well? Like that and Katherine: being able to have an opportunity to develop your own values outside of that religious. I want to go back. I want to get into those five things that you just mentioned, but I want to go back and talk about bodies for a minute.We mentioned that women's bodies were made objects and it's like you're walking instead of boobs like it was it was objectification. And that was how a woman's body was viewed and presented to [00:50:00] men. It was also how we we viewed our own race to kind of your own body is of just like cover up cover up cover up and that was literally cover up cover up cover up and then.Here's how you use a tampon on your period. And like, that was literally it. And so for men, what are the messages about their bodies that they receive in these communities? Jeremiah: Men are machines. And, and, and this is both within Christian context and in larger capitalist contexts that men are machines that men are, that all men think about is sex.That sex is the number one most important thing and that that's what being a good man is about. And that men are meant to compete. Yeah. Mm. And, and compete with other men and also compete with women. Yeah. I, I would argue that ultimately misogyny is a A misappropriation of competition between men [00:51:00] and women as opposed to men taking that energy around some of the injustices that they experience and taking it back to like the larger political and social systems that put them into shit situations.Yeah. Julia: It's interesting, Jeremiah, because some of, I don't, I agree with everything that you said. some of what you said isn't necessarily inherent to bodies. Sure. It's about, you know, competition, for example, you use your bodies to compete, but that's more of a concept, I guess. And so I suppose, and I'd be curious.To hear how the two of you experience this similarly or differently, there wasn't a lot said about the bodies of men in my communities. And when I work with couples, especially hetero couples, women have a lot to say about their bodies and what they learned about their bodies. Men have much less to say about their bodies, at least anecdotally.And what they do say about their bodies does tend to [00:52:00] revolve around their penises. And I would say that's more from secular culture than religious culture. Although, as we've discussed, both of those things overlap. Actually I'm going to walk that back. The church doesn't talk about erections explicitly.Implicitly, there's a lot about erections. So if you edit it, you can edit that how you will. But yes, women have a lot. About their bodies that they learn that they can communicate men don't learn as much about their bodies. I Jeremiah: agree. Katherine: Yeah, and it makes me think that like what women learn about their bodies is typically oriented around a man.Or oriented around the reproductive system and having babies, men don't, don't quote unquote need their body for those things. Like they don't, they're conditioned. I don't need my body other than to protect.[00:53:00] Yeah. Yeah. And, and I remember reading this like super toxic book and the fundamentalist world about why like women need to like submit to men because like women have more power to have Babies. And so if men don't have that power, then they're going to turn into an animal. So they need like the woman to like, keep them from turning into the monster.Because the woman has this like special power and like birthing babies, very, very toxic book yet. That's it. That's kind of like it in a nutshell Jeremiah: of and that's what that's that's also a Christian relationship literature in a nutshell. Yeah, I can think of like 13 other metaphors that describe like the very similar process that you were just describing Catherine, Julia: right?Well, in going back to the erection piece, and clearly that's on my mind a lot today. When men learn that all they want is [00:54:00] sex, they, the the When they're told that's all they want. Yes, yes, yes, yes. When they are told all they want is sex. Yes. Which, when often they don't that does have some implicit Implications for for the penis and for needing to be physiologically aroused right away.And so sometimes other men will come in and talk about erectile dysfunction and I'll say, Oh, so you didn't get an erection in 30 seconds of making out or so you had sex with a partner for a longer period of time. And at one point. You lost your erection. Like, where did you learn that that's erectile dysfunction?Mm hmm. Actually, that's like very normative. Right. Functioning as a human being. But I will say that even though men don't learn as much about their bodies inherently, the implications about their bodies to [00:55:00] sexuality are pretty strong. And revolve Jeremiah: around the mythology around the penis. Yeah, yeah, yeah.Katherine: Whoa. So, what, what does a man do when they're no longer, like, The penis is not the only thing about them, like where, where does, where does the conversation go? How did they become like a full whole integrated human being? When their penis is no longer the center of their life. Well, Jeremiah: and that gets back to what I was trying to explain a little bit earlier about.I think the answer to that question is different. If a man is interested in reproducing complementarian gender hierarchical systems. I think men in those systems with with those needs have no idea what to do and have these existential crises, either over longer periods of time or in these like short term outbursts, types of [00:56:00] control behaviors.I think men that want. And strive for a more egalitarian context and opposite sex partnerships may have a little bit of an easier time exploring different ways of you know, providing, providing touch engaging in pleasure that, that don't involve, that don't center around their penises. It can Julia: come with some relief.Absolutely. Yeah, for sure. I'm thinking about some couples that Jeremiah: I've worked with. I've experienced that personally speaking. Julia: Oh, so. Is that okay that I asked him? You're the interviewer. I'm just very curious. No, I am Katherine: too. I was coming. I was coming right behind you. Jeremiah: No, Julia. I think, I think that I think that that's one of the sources of freedom that I've experienced in our relationship too.Like, like I I've shared with you some anxieties that I have around my penis and you've, you've said, Oh, well, that's silly. I don't think that most women don't think that I'm like, Oh, you're right. Oh, the research supports what you're saying. Also, like, I want a more collaborative relationship. I want to be a more collaborative person than, than I was in, in [00:57:00] my marriage.And so, yeah, I think I've been, I think a sense of relief is, is absolutely correct. I've experienced a lot of that regarding regarding sexuality regarding a lot of elements of our relationship. Very Katherine: cool. I'm such a great partner. You guys are Jeremiah: the real MVP of this operation. Katherine: Ah, I love, I love that. Segueing into some of your, your five, your five things.And also because this was probably one of the first episodes I listened to from, From you all. And I learned a lot about it. The message of consent, which I never learned until like very, very recently within the past few years and, and have friends. Who were married very young, and are now, you know, divorced and exploring things outside of it and I am having to teach them about consent, because it [00:58:00] was never a part of their upbringing, either and like, No, actually what that man just did to you was, was not consent and like sending them the YouTube video about the tea and tea and consent, tea and consent and like, you are allowed to say, No, and they should be looking for an enthusiastic.Yes. And, and how does that, I know how that like shows up for women and what, and the impact that that has on women, what is the impact that that has on men in sexuality? Well, Jeremiah: first of all, consent is a relational process. Consent is a dialogue. And part of. The narratives of masculinity is that men by being the gender and opposite sex couples by being the gender that has a higher quote sex drive should also be the initiators and that [00:59:00] initiation is so if, if initiation is expected by men If initiation is accepted to be done by men, if there's an assumption that men have higher sex drives, that women don't have high sex drives like this is setting up a recipe for some really harmful sexual experiences both in terms of, of.emotional damage that can happen through a lack of communication, lack of overt consent, and also through significant emotional, physical, psychological damage from men who overtly exploit that to abuse women. So I would, I, I, I would start there that I talked on the podcast about what happened when I in my sex therapy training, the first class that we took was around the, the six sexual health principles that I mentioned and, and, and about consent and my response leaving that was, oh, fuck, I [01:00:00] am 33 years old.I have never had this conversation and I have been. engaged in a 14 year sexual relationship that has not been particularly dialogical. Yeah. And there's reasons for that that we can talk about maybe in another context, but, but, but part of that is rooted in these expectations that both my partner and I had that, or my ex and I had that, I am the one that has a higher sex drive that it should be initiating sex.And, and, and my partner as, as a woman should be the recipient and, and, and even be even be asexual. And so according to that, I have conversations which is super, super damaging. And so I had, I came back. From a class. I talked with my ex about this. Hey, we need to talk. I am so sorry that we have been having these experiences.I want to do this differently. I'd love to figure out a way to talk to you [01:01:00] about this and my ex, who is also like steeped up in, in much more of a similar experience religious experience to Julia growing up, growing up in the Baptist church than, than I was. Her response was, Oh, it's no big deal.Thank you. Which threw me for a loop and looking back on this now, like recognizing how entrenched she still was. Yeah. In these expectations about what men do and what women do. Katherine: And it was just normal, so normal for her. She had no concept or idea of anything else. That's right. Julia: Yeah. That's bad. Well and I'm not saying bad in a that is not bad in a blaming way towards anyone.That is a bad system for all of us to have learned from, you know, this is super sad. So I've had [01:02:00] experiences in which like men have abused me sexually in an exploitive way. And that is a really awful experience. And then I've had experiences, perhaps more similar to what you're describing, Jeremiah. In which the abuse of, or the the non consensual experience is not necessarily abusive.Non consent can absolutely be abusive and I've experienced that. Or non consent can exist when a couple doesn't have relational tools to navigate consent. So I had a diagnosis of vaginismus and vulvodynia, which means essentially painful intercourse and the constriction of the vaginal muscles. Deeply connected to...Evangelicalism so I'm hesitant to use that diagnostic language, but that was what I experienced, which means that sex was often painful. And when I got married my husband and I would sometimes have these sexual experiences that were very, very physically painful. And my ex husband, who is a good human being, saw that I [01:03:00] was in pain, and he had this terrible choice in which he could stop the sexual experience because he didn't want to see his partner in pain or be any part of inflicting that.However, if he chose to stop the sexual experience, that would also communicate to me as the woman in this. situation that I was not desirable. And so sometimes he would initiate stopping the sexual experience. And I would sometimes say, no, no, no, keep going. Because for me, that was my only way of proving my worth as a human being.And so I could also have the opportunity to say, yes, let's stop this experience and save myself from the pain. Or I could power through the pain. And so both of us were stuck in these really terrible dynamics, which the experience was not consensual, right? Right. Not consensual because I was clearly in a huge amount of physical distress and emotional distress.[01:04:00] However, From my perspective, that wasn't an abusive, non consensual experience, and I think the assumption that non consent is always abusive keeps us from having these dialogues because there is so much shame associated with it. Katherine: That's right. Right, right. And I think that was something that I learned from y'all's episode about just because it's non consensual doesn't equal marital rape.And I think that that is a new, a new a new phrase. Phrase. Simple. Right. That we're, we're more acquainted with. And, and I, and I love, thank you so much for sharing your example, Julia, because It was like you both were consenting to play roles. So there was consent. You didn't necessarily, you didn't know there was anything different, you know, like, yeah, it wasn't that he, you were saying, no, I don't want this.And then he was forcing [01:05:00] still, that's a very different dynamic. We both have these roles to play. And we're both just playing Julia: and we're performing our genders and we didn't know that we could consent out of it. And sadly, I've had the experiences that you're describing in which a sexual experience was forced due to an abuse of power.And, and that's a different, that's a different kind of experience. Both are painful, both are harmful. But I think we have to have more nuanced dialogue around consent. Katherine: Absolutely. Yeah. And then, and then just, Oof. And then like your story, Jeremiah, of like recognizing that this had never happened, like, and it wasn't in an effort to, to dominate, it was in an effort to play the role that you were told.Jeremiah: Right. Right. Yeah. Right. And, and, and just to kind of build on [01:06:00] that, that yeah, like our earliest sexual experiences with my ex, yeah. Were they almost all ended with panic attacks. With my ex wife having a panic attack, and, did you Katherine: correlate it with what had just happened? Or did you think it was completely separate?I had Jeremiah: no idea what was going on. I didn't have the language for it. I just knew that there was a sexual experience for something I wanted, something I thought she wanted. And the panic attacks, obviously like shut down the experience. It, it it heightened my own desire to move into like protective spaces.And, and so I learned that initiating conversations about sex that had the capacity to bring that that, that, that kind of pain. So, so not just on a, on a, on a physical level, Julia, what you're talking about, but on a dialogical level. Sure, sure. Both. Yeah. Yeah. So. Katherine: If this is too much information, you're, I will cut it from the episode, but were, [01:07:00] was, were your first sexual experiences in marriage?Jeremiah: Depends on what you mean by sexual experience. Let's, Katherine: let's, let's play the, the Jeremiah: marital relationship was my first experience with intercourse. Got Julia: it. There you go. Yeah. Yeah. Me too. And Yeah. I think the question is relevant in the sense that that meant a following of purity culture rules because the church defines sexuality by vaginally penetrative intercourse.I think that language is so harmful because it I think that eliminates any other kinds of sexual experiences that are, that are just as, as valid and Jeremiah: just as enjoyable. Katherine: Yeah. And, and building that connection and intimacy as you were, you were talking about earlier as [01:08:00] a way of just wrapping up the episode, we've talked a little bit about this and you have shared some really great insights into the healing processes.That you have both been through and then also clients but what are some just like stepping stones and, and, and starting places for like men listening to this episode of just like how to integrate and be that whole human. And then for women who might be in that hetero cisgender relationship on on what they can like how to just kind of navigate.Potentially very brand new things that they may have learned in this episode. We can start with the men. Jeremiah: I'm also thinking about stepping stones. I think first things first, we have to start thinking about sex in ways that go beyond vaginal intercourse. That sex is the way that the ways that two bodies interact with each other in a way that creates [01:09:00] some sort of, some sort of physical pleasure.And thinking then about, well, what are the diversity of ways in, in, in, in which that happens for me what are the types of what are the types of touch that I like? Well, what are ways that I can have pleasure that, that, that don't involve touch and, and that can, that can either for myself and, and that are also relational so I think that.Thinking about stepping stones, I think that that's an important stepping stone to acknowledge that sex is not a reduction to our penises that sex involves the totality of our bodies. Yeah. Julia: I would say that learning to talk about... Sex is probably one of the stepping stones, and that's really difficult if you've never had any models for talking about sexuality. In our episode with you when we interviewed you for our podcast, you mentioned the [01:10:00] challenge of Well, how do you find a voice after leaving a religious community when you never developed one, right?And so I recognize that even, I suppose, this stepping stone is a complicated one because that would require a person or a couple or a group to step up. to create a new roadmap or to start a new pathway down this sledding hill. Maybe having some questions could be helpful. So asking a partner or a friend or someone you trust who you believe could have this dialogue with you in a meaningful way to say, you know, what did you learn about your gender growing up.What did it mean to be a man in your church? That might be a helpful first step, because it can also test out the water a little bit. Talking about what you learned is potentially vulnerable, but you're still [01:11:00] talking about something outside of yourself to a degree. And so being able to talk with someone about what that meant and what about that might've been difficult you know, to go there if, if, if the first part of that conversation goes well.Yeah. Katherine: Hmm. Yeah. Yeah. I'm just getting, just getting comfortable with like just understanding the messages. Yeah. You received. Yes. It's hard though. It's hard work. Listen to sexvangelicals. Julia: That's right. You can listen to our podcast. Jeremiah: Spotify, wherever you get your podcasts, Katherine: wherever you get your podcasts. Well, this has been very informative and also feels like the beginning of a conversation and there's just so much more to explore.Just, yeah, through this lens, but I really appreciate you providing that extra perspective[01:12:00] just because. In the purity culture conversation, it tends to center around the woman's experience. And, and it, and as we know, patriarchy doesn't just impact women, it impacts everyone. Julia: Right, right. And I think that one of the messages about purity culture is that women are the gatekeepers to sexuality.And that's something that's damaging to women, but it damages men because it erases their ability to describe Their experiences in, in their own ways , Katherine: And, and almost eliminates their agency Julia: within it. Absolutely. Absolutely. Of course. Katherine: Yeah. Well, this has been great. As we, as we wrap up , share where folks can interact with you.And then are you, are you all taking. Taking clients or do we have a full docket at the moment? Julia: They can reach out Jeremiah: to us and reach out to us. Yeah. So for more information about working with us, we're in, in the early stages of getting some coaching processes together.[01:13:00] Sex evangelicals at gmail.com. We're also on Instagram and threads at sex evangelicals. And then we also have a subsect that goes out two or three times a week called relationship 101, which you can find at sex evangelicals. subsect. com. That's super Katherine: easy and super simple. I love it. Appreciate y'all.

SummaryWilly Woo is managing partner at Crest and SyzCrest, a fund that builds financial products to give higher yield than T-bills by harvesting the volatility in crypto.Willy Woo and Piers discuss various aspects of trading, covering topics like price predictions, the balance between intuition and data when building predictive models, and the social value inherent in trading activities. Their conversation extends to exploring the dynamics of DeFi and altcoin markets, drawing comparisons with TradFi, examining market manipulation, and emphasizing the crucial role of transparency in the crypto space. They weigh the pros and cons of transaction privacy in creating a fairer market and touch upon the impact of MEV, DeFi's high-frequency trading.They explore the three forms of the efficient market hypothesis (EMH), hodling versus directional trading, and the fundamental concepts that are necessary for successful trading. They also examine the concept of purpose, discussing how it motivates individuals in their pursuits. Segueing into Radix, their conversation highlights the Radix team's dedication to their vision and integrity, rather than rushing launch and compromising for easy wins. They talk about compounding games and underscore the need for adopting a long-term view for achieving meaningful, lasting change.Chapters00:00 — Introduction01:01 — Willy's predictions about Bitcoin03:05 — Intuition and data analysis in predictive models09:00 — Short-term vs long-term trading13:33 — Social value of trading19:47 — Transparency in crypto transactions21:40 — Transaction privacy in DeFi?27:12 — The 3 forms of the Efficient Markets Hypothesis33:04 — Hodling as a strategy against volatility37:15 — What to prioritise learning as a new trader38:52 — Finding your purpose 46:46 — The vision and integrity of RadixFurther resourcesTwitter: @woonomicCrest Fund: crest.fund  

We're back with another adventure! On the latest episode of Fever Pitch, Brian and Dan dive into this past week's football games, we recap the Ravens big win against Detroit and Dolphins vs. Eagles matchup that had a decent amount of controversy. and, another AFC West duel featuring Patrick Mahomes and Justin Herbert . This leads to another discussion of the top quarterbacks in the league. We also covered the Monday Night Football matchup that really put Jordan Addison on the map in a clash between the Minnesota Vikings and San Francisco 49ers! Additionally, we have a discussion about whether a kicker who is guaranteed to make any field goal would hold more value than Patrick Mahomes. Segueing into a discussion of Division II quarterback Tyson Bagent's debut for the Chicago Bears. Tune in as we breakdown this week of football and we also give a preview of the ensuing NBA season and the ongoing MLB playoffs! If you would like to be interviewed or featured on the podcast please contact us! We are open to hearing everyone's opinions and learning more. Please leave a review of what you think of our podcast. Email: feverpitchpodcast@gmail.com Instagram: @feverpitchpod Youtube: @FeverPitchPodcast Direct Message or Email us any inquiries or questions for the podcast!

What happens when the hallowed halls of the US Senate take a sartorial nosedive, and the dress code is thrown out the window? We dive into the uproar over this startling departure from tradition and share our thoughts on why maintaining a certain level of professionalism matters. We also get into a spirited debate over the recent clash between Pennsylvania's Senator and Marjorie Taylor Greene. Ever pondered the ramifications of government-run grocery stores? Wonder no more! We navigate through the unfolding drama in Chicago as it grapples with the issue of food deserts in low-income areas. Our scrutiny doesn't stop there! We delve deeper into the realm of government interference as we analyze the Obama cell phone program and its potential impact on individual freedoms and voting patterns. Segueing into the military sector, we discuss the dwindling recruitment numbers and how societal attitudes and a shift in physical fitness norms might be contributing to this issue. From examining the implications of including women in the Selective Service to scrutinizing the changing recruitment messaging, we cover it all. And as a cherry on top, we even bring a touch of levity to our chat with a segment on the feud between country music star Marin Morris and two other musicians. We wrap up by spotlighting our latest book release and invite you, our listeners, to share your thoughts and topic suggestions to keep the dialogue flowing. Buckle up, folks! We promise an episode chock-full of thought-provoking discussions interlaced with some light-hearted banter and music industry gossip. Support the show --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/contra-radio-network/support

What happens when the hallowed halls of the US Senate take a sartorial nosedive, and the dress code is thrown out the window? We dive into the uproar over this startling departure from tradition and share our thoughts on why maintaining a certain level of professionalism matters. We also get into a spirited debate over the recent clash between Pennsylvania's Senator and Marjorie Taylor Greene.  Ever pondered the ramifications of government-run grocery stores? Wonder no more! We navigate through the unfolding drama in Chicago as it grapples with the issue of food deserts in low-income areas. Our scrutiny doesn't stop there! We delve deeper into the realm of government interference as we analyze the Obama cell phone program and its potential impact on individual freedoms and voting patterns.  Segueing into the military sector, we discuss the dwindling recruitment numbers and how societal attitudes and a shift in physical fitness norms might be contributing to this issue. From examining the implications of including women in the Selective Service to scrutinizing the changing recruitment messaging, we cover it all. And as a cherry on top, we even bring a touch of levity to our chat with a segment on the feud between country music star Marin Morris and two other musicians. We wrap up by spotlighting our latest book release and invite you, our listeners, to share your thoughts and topic suggestions to keep the dialogue flowing. Buckle up, folks! We promise an episode chock-full of thought-provoking discussions interlaced with some light-hearted banter and music industry gossip. Support the show

What happens when the hallowed halls of the US Senate take a sartorial nosedive, and the dress code is thrown out the window? We dive into the uproar over this startling departure from tradition and share our thoughts on why maintaining a certain level of professionalism matters. We also get into a spirited debate over the recent clash between Pennsylvania's Senator and Marjorie Taylor Greene. Ever pondered the ramifications of government-run grocery stores? Wonder no more! We navigate through the unfolding drama in Chicago as it grapples with the issue of food deserts in low-income areas. Our scrutiny doesn't stop there! We delve deeper into the realm of government interference as we analyze the Obama cell phone program and its potential impact on individual freedoms and voting patterns. Segueing into the military sector, we discuss the dwindling recruitment numbers and how societal attitudes and a shift in physical fitness norms might be contributing to this issue. From examining the implications of including women in the Selective Service to scrutinizing the changing recruitment messaging, we cover it all. And as a cherry on top, we even bring a touch of levity to our chat with a segment on the feud between country music star Marin Morris and two other musicians. We wrap up by spotlighting our latest book release and invite you, our listeners, to share your thoughts and topic suggestions to keep the dialogue flowing. Buckle up, folks! We promise an episode chock-full of thought-provoking discussions interlaced with some light-hearted banter and music industry gossip.Support the show#ifounditonamazon https://a.co/ekT4dNOTRY AUDIBLE PLUS: https://amzn.to/3vb6Rw3Elsa's Books: https://www.amazon.com/~/e/B01E1VFRFQDesign Like A Pro: https://canva.7eqqol.net/xg6Nv Bible Journaling Finds: https://www.amazon....

3 - Rich kicks off the afternoon with a story over two moms, each on separate sides of the political aisle, upset over the wacko policies being put in New Jersey that eliminate pronouns from school and sports, allowing boys to play girl sports and be in locker rooms and vice versa. Rich gives his take on the matter 310 - Rich then moves to the Biden corruption scandal and an oversight's committee report over payments made to the Biden family and associates from all across Europe and Asia. Rich goes through the details of the report and gives his knee-jerk reactions.  330 - Twitter has been fined for not handing over the keys to Trump's Twitter account to , but as we go through this story, Twitter has handed it over to investigators. Joe Biden is out west talking about climate change nonsense and touching reporters. We play some audio and get feedback from Rich over the whole green initiative just being a honey pot for special interest groups.  350 - Mike Pence stars in a new ad where he is very clearly not pumping gas because he never chooses the fuel grade and it beeps throughout the video. 4 - Which state will be the first to declare that going against the climate change agenda will be a crime? Rich's money is on Jersey as possible Democratic candidates for President jockey for position, including King Phillip the Unaccountable trying to place himself ahead of those like Newsome and Shapiro. Newsome is also ducking Ron DeSantis after DeSantis accepted his debate challenge. Who will be the most left above the rest?  420 - Legendary guitarist Robbie Robertson passed away today and we pay tribute to a life well-lived.  430 - Can you get my testicles? They're right next to the eggs.  445 - Rich just vibes, man.  450 - The case against Trump: Do you have the right to lie? Why is climate change always blamed on humans but not the volcanoes mentioned yesterday, or the current solar flares flashing up? 5 - Drive @ 5 - Disney partners with a ‘gender fluid' man to promote Minnie Mouse women's apparel. Stories like this always bring up the term ‘groomer.' Harry's Razors, former sponsor, went woke and now have a trans man promoting shaving their chest and face. After Bud Light's fiasco, when will these companies learn the consumer does not want this stuff shoved in our faces?  510 - Segueing into prosecuting people for lying. Why would we not do that for someone like Dr. Rachel Levine, who identifies as a woman despite being a man?  525 - A professor told his class that biological sex was determined by chromosomes. Students walked out of class which led to a suspension which in turn then led to a firing due to his comment. Now that professor is suing as he was using college approved material and the fact you are able to have these discussions within the classroom a la the First Amendment.  540 - How does Robbie Robertson's death affect Phil's set tonight? Let's talk about baseball! Joe Biden just helped out Russia by canceling domestic uranium mining after deeming the work area out west a national monument. Now we will get most of our Uranium from Putin himself.  550 - AI is fueling anorexia. A smorgasbord of topics to end the 5 o'clock hour. 6 - We kick off the final hour with 24 straight minutes of Democrats denying elections. Just kidding, we only have to play a couple minutes to get the point across. Yet, nobody got indicted over it! 610 - Was it okay for Biden to enter that reporter's personal space during an interview? When is it appropriate? Let's hold Biden criminally accountable for saying he'd stop drilling? 630 -  A former climate change alarmist has changed her tune and is fighting to debunk climate change as she explains it is all for profit gain. Scientists know climate change is a ruse, but those who come up with the most alarming and fear-mongering numbers will have fame and riches in the science community and beyond, hence why all these different reports always come out. And the ones funding these conspiracies? Our own government.  650 - Fourth and Final Follow The Money. More on Biden payments to the family and associates.

5 - Drive @ 5 - Disney partners with a ‘gender fluid' man to promote Minnie Mouse women's apparel. Stories like this always bring up the term ‘groomer.' Harry's Razors, former sponsor, went woke and now have a trans man promoting shaving their chest and face. After Bud Light's fiasco, when will these companies learn the consumer does not want this stuff shoved in our faces?  510 - Segueing into prosecuting people for lying. Why would we not do that for someone like Dr. Rachel Levine, who identifies as a woman despite being a man?  525 - A professor told his class that biological sex was determined by chromosomes. Students walked out of class which led to a suspension which in turn then led to a firing due to his comment. Now that professor is suing as he was using college approved material and the fact you are able to have these discussions within the classroom a la the First Amendment.  540 - How does Robbie Robertson's death affect Phil's set tonight? Let's talk about baseball! Joe Biden just helped out Russia by canceling domestic uranium mining after deeming the work area out west a national monument. Now we will get most of our Uranium from Putin himself.  550 - AI is fueling anorexia. A smorgasbord of topics to end the 5 o'clock hour.

On this episode of 'Jam Session,' Juliet and Amanda return to talk about all the latest celebrity news. Starting off, the ladies discuss the recent news of Jonah Hill being exposed by ex-girlfriend Sarah Brady for verbal abuse in what seems to have been a toxic relationship (:55). Segueing into yet another toxic relationship, Juliet and Amanda discuss Keke Palmer and her boyfriend and child's father, Darius Jackson, after he tweeted his disapproval of what she was wearing to an Usher concert, which then sparked a whole lot of controversy on social media (13:05). Next, the women discuss a viral video of Britney Spears being hit by security after trying to interact with NBA star Victor Wembanyama (19:53), and much, much more!Hosts: Juliet Litman and Amanda DobbinsProducer: Jade WhaleyAssistant Producer: Mike Wargon Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Today I'm joined by legendary character actor William Fichtner. I had him on the show to discuss his latest film 88. Having appeared in a wide range of films along with television and theater roles over the course of his career, William Fichtner continues to carve out a distinctive reputation as one of our most versatile and talented actors, whether in comedy or drama, action or character study. He is one of Hollywood's most distinct and familiar faces. Fichtner can next be seen in the Robert Rodriguez feature film Hypnotic alongside Ben Affleck and Alice Braga, and in 88 directed by Thomas Ikimi. Other recent films include The Birthday Cake, co-starring Ewan McGregor and Val Kilmer; The Space Between, opposite Kelsey Grammer and directed by Rachel Winter; Jack & Josie directed by Sarah Lancaster; Armed, written and directed by Mario Van Peebles; Finding Steve McQueen with Forest Whitaker, and opposite Jeffery Wright in the indie feature O.G. directed by Madeleine Sackler that premiered on HBO. Fichtner also starred alongside Jon Voight in the indie feature American Wrestler: The Wizard; Krystal directed by William H. Macy, and produced and starred in the indie feature The Neighbor. Pivoting to the other side of the camera, Fichtner directed, produced, co-wrote, and starred in his feature film Cold Brook shot mostly in his hometown of Buffalo, New York. Segueing between television and feature films, Fichtner led an ensemble cast in the original first 2 seasons of the international crime series Crossing Lines. He recurred on HBO's Entourage from 2009-2011 and played ‘FBI Agent Alexander Mahone' for three seasons on Fox's hit drama series, Prison Break. William recently played Adam on CBS's hit show Mom opposite Allison Janney, from creator Chuck Lorre. William can now be seen in the Peacock limited series Joe vs Carol where he stars alongside Kate McKinnon and John Cameron Mitchell. Other feature films include 12 Strong for producer Jerry Bruckheimer; Independence Day:Resurgence directed by Roland Emmerich; Paramount's Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles; director Gore Verbinski's The Lone Ranger and Neil Blomkamp's Elysium. He also co-starred in writer-director Paul Haggis' Academy Award-winning Crash. For his performance in that film, he shared a Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Ensemble Cast in a Feature Film. Other film credits include Drive Angry for director Patrick Lussier; Shawn Levy's Date Night; Blades of Glory with Will Ferrell; Chris Nolan's The Dark Knight; the remake of The Longest Yard; the comedy The Amateurs with Jeff Bridges; Rodrigo Garcia's Nine Lives; Ridley Scott's Black Hawk Down; What's The Worst That Could Happen; Wolfgang Peterson's The Perfect Storm; Drowning Mona; Ultraviolet and Equilibrium, both for writer-director Kurt Wimmer; Armageddon directed by Michael Bay; Michael Mann's Heat; Robert Zemeckis' Contact; Doug Liman's Go; Strange Days directed by Katherine Bigelow; Passion of Mind; Steven Soderbergh's The Underneath; Agnieszka Holland's Julie Walking Home and The Settlement with John C. Reilly, among many others. As a member of the Circle Repertory Theatre, Fichtner won critical acclaim for his role in The Fiery Furnace, directed by Norman Rene. Other stage credits include Raft of the Medusa at the Minetta Lane Theatre, The Years at the Manhattan Theatre Club, Clothes for a Summer Hotel at the Williamstown Theatre festival and Machinal at The Public Theatre. 88 is currently available on VOD. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/followingfilms/support

In this episode of his "Thinking Out Loud" series, Double D examines a memorandum from the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs which outlines and condemns United States Hegemony. Double D uses alternative sources and analysis to fact check and add more perspective to the document.Jumping in to the video, Double D reads excerpts from the Chinese Foreign Ministry memorandum, outlining the "five pillars of U.S. Hegemony", political, military, economic, technological, and cultural. Double D highlights the U.S. abuse of political hegemony, citing color revolutions, which he examines further using a political analysis published in the Westminster Papers by Professor Gerald Sussman. He shows how the U.S. will use mass propaganda, front funding organizations, and public manipulation to turn social movements in a country into a push for regime change. Using the Westminster analysis, Double D cements the fact that despite "democracy" rhetoric surrounding color revolutions, the vast majority of resources dumped in to this political engineering revolves around "free market" reforms.Moving on, Double D examines the history of the United States abusing its political hegemony to manipulate international diplomacy. He starts by focusing on the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC), showing how the U.S. repeatedly used domestic partisanship as an excuse to slow diplomacy around the banning of chemical and biological weapons. He shows how the U.S. used its political influence to secure "special considerations" around the CWC, ensuring that the U.S. answered to no-one surrounding chemical weapon testing or disarmament verification. He notes also that the U.S. secured the right to determine which sites could be inspected. Using a resource from the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, Double D shows how even with "full compliance" on the CWC, the United States has secured the capacity to continue developing and mobilizing certain chemical and biological weapons systems.Double D then goes on to examine the United States withdrawal from international nuclear weapons treaties, citing the "Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty" as well as the Open-Skies Treat. Double D uses this example to examine United States Nuclear Policy, quoting both Biden and the State Department in the use of "first-strike policy", noting that the United States is the only country on Earth to suggest that they may use nuclear weapons to preserve national interests, rather than a policy of simple deterrence under Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD) stance, which is canon for most countries. Double D then cites the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft so examine times throughout history that the United States has engaged in Nuclear Brinksmanship by threatening to use nuclear weapons, dating as recently as the Clinton Administration, who threatened North Korea with warheads if they didn't abandon their nuclear reactor program.Segueing from nuclear policy, Double D examines how the U.S. stance has been implemented in the Indo-Pacific region. Citing an article from Nikkei-Japan, he outlines the U.S. policy of "Nuclear Encirclement", showing how the United States has invested tens of billions of dollars to develop a "precision-strike missile system" in the first island chain surrounding China in conjunction with a second island chain air defense system. Double D explains how this is an attempt to secure "nuclear primacy" in the region, by implementing first-strike capabilities that could destroy China's nuclear infrastructure before they have the chance to retaliate. Double D asks his audience to consider the existential and suicidal nature of such a policy, and asks them to consider how the U.S. would react to a similar policy in the Caribbean.Rounding off the video, Double D examines the argument presented in the memorandum that claims "the U.S. uses a false democracy vs authoritarianism rhetoric" to justif

This week we had the first stacking effort with the Gen 2 Val3ntin3s, it was a treacherous feat that only a few were able to accomplish. For those that did, they received a coveted Young thr33zi3s. We go over the ins and outs of the stacking mechanic and the new piece. We also discuss how this event lead people to become more organized in their collecting and the benefits of this. Segueing into a few baseball analogies describing the individual vs team aspects of the project as well as the dichotomy of rigid structure and jazz riffing. Big week on SuperRare as RAZR comes home with the NFT Yearbook 1/1 designed cover by the man himself. This leads us into a discussion around the thr33zi3s corner of the project. We finish up with a celebration of everyone who has been here and those that have just arrived, this project wouldn't be the same without everyone participating. Summer Cottages are coming for us all!

In this exclusive interview, Hannes Hagström joins Jörn Schattenberg, Louise Campbell and Roger Green to explore papers emerging from Scandinavia which offer fascinating insights to the field at large.Hannes opens the conversation with his idea that 2022 was an encouraging year for research, specifically in that the mechanisms of drugs in development “feel more realistic.” When asked what he means by realistic, Hannes explains his interpretation of NAFLD to be a public health problem by which the metabolic system is overloaded with nutrients. He suggests a general pathway would aim to reduce this burden, citing examples like GLP-1s and possibilities surrounding an imminent announcement on resmetirom. From here Hannes describes developing a population-based cohort of liver disease patients using relatively accurate registers in Sweden. He highlights that this system enables studies to navigate issues around selection bias and capture the whole of a population with any diagnosed liver disease dating back to the sixties - roughly 350,000 unique patients in Sweden. The data available in this cohort can be linked back to the general population and used to examine several important research considerations. Long-term outcomes of chronic liver diseases, risk factors for disease progression, impact of dispensed drugs, disease panorama and time trends are among examples.Segueing to several studies utilizing this cohort, Hannes first introduces a paper which examines cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk and life expectancy in patients with NAFLD compared with the general population. While NAFLD was associated with a higher risk of nonfatal CVD, it notably did not affect post-CVD mortality risk. Another conclusion: patients diagnosed with NAFLD have a lower life expectancy than the general population. Strikingly, this loss in life expectancy was accentuated depending on the age of patient at time of diagnosis. The younger in age one has a diagnosis of NAFLD, the more one can expect to have a drop in life expectancy. Hannes suggests this may summon an urgency in screening younger populations. A caveat of this cohort is noted to be the reality of true incidence rates could be higher than what has been captured in diagnosis in specialty care. At this point, Jörn and Louise ask a series of thought-provoking questions which spur Hannnes to describe additional compelling facets of working with this rich data set. Studies can link research cohorts examining biopsies of patients with NAFLD to these registers, allowing for long-term follow-up. Hannes also mentions collaboration with the Swedish Diabetes Register which captures at least 90% of patients with type 2 diabetes. Such granularity enables investigation into the influence of comorbidities on the risk of liver disease. Roger notes a theme of recent guidelines is to assume that diabetic patients have NAFLD, therefore the recommendation is to immediately search for NASH in the evidence of fibrosis. As these databases are pooled, NAFLD can be examined through a diabetes lens or vice versa. The group goes on to briefly discuss elements of screening, guidelines and the influence of NITs on interpreting prevalence. Hannes bridges this discussion to a just-accepted paper whereby his team looked at developing FIB-4 in a more meaningful way through stratifying subgroups within the overarching risk categories. Simply, the three parameters used are age, presence of diabetes and a gamma-glutamyl transferase test. The latter is noted to be useful in linking cardiac outcomes and an imperfect marker for alcohol use. As the session winds down, the panelists explore speculative questions around genetics and the microbiome, and any foresight into how these factors could be filtered through the aforementioned registers and databases. In closing, Hannes provides a glimpse at what awaits for his research in 2023. Surf on to find out. 

Segueing into Spooky Season, this week we're bringing a seasonally-appropriate episode on witchy books! Focusing on The Scapegracers by H.A. Clarke and Payback's a Witch by Lana Harper, we discuss the different takes on witches in both novels, their representation of magic-wielding lesbian and bisexual women, and how supernatural elements are used to underscore and develop the character relationships. (And also how a drag show act served as the seed of inspiration for this episode.)   Content warnings: car crash, parental death, homophobia   Other media mentioned The Sandman (comic) Everything Everywhere All at Once The Duke Who Didn't by Courtney Milan The Sandman (Netflix show) Silver Under Nightfall by Rin Chupeco Hellblazer by Jamie Delano The Scratch Daughter by H.A. Clarke (upcoming) The Lost Coast by A.R. Capetta Witch Week by Diana Wynne Jones As always, you can learn more about our podcast at our website, neverthetwinsshallmeet.com

Tune into an interesting episode of #BlowinSmokePodcast with the guys as they jump into a conversation about focus and the will-power it takes to be able to actually commit to the task at hand. Segueing into their takes on the 'Hospitality Industry' and how they go about leaving their tips and dealing with bad service. Finishing with their perspective on the quote "Things Don't Happen To You, They Happen For You"... with a whole lotta smoke Follow | Like | Comment | Subscribe  #Focus #Tips #dance  Watch Now - https://youtu.be/uHwW7dUaC8c Instagram:  @blowinsmokepod @dopeaholic   @truephjt  @emilbustos

Thursday August 4, 2022 - Guest: Reggie Watts No time for top of show, Reggie Watts is here, and he's draped in America. What the heck does that mean?? First up, his brand new car! A sweet Adventurine Green @Porsche #992 #911 #Turbo S! Our heroes celebrate the idea of being able to drive to an event, take part in said event, then drive home from the event, all in one car! While born in Stuttgart, Reggie is grateful for all of the amazing opportunities the United States have given him. One of those opportunities is the idea of making an electric, or bad ass Mad Max car out of a Porsche 928. This might actually be a good idea! Segueing to Porsche's Mission R racecar, a short development leads to madness on the track, the insane sounds they are starting to make and speeds they are starting to hit. After a LOT of cars, we accidentally switch to the fun project that was JASH. To this day he's still grateful Sarah Silverman used to bring him edibles. Finally moving to the elephant in the room... the impending end of Late Late Show. We hear Reggie's point of view before J & Mike try to illuminate just how crazy the next year will be will be for him. Luckily Reggie goes with the flow. We are so excited Reggie will be part of the fundraiser event at the Marconi on September 3rd. Reggie hits his hard out but the show continues! We finish with Bikram yoga on East Coast Feed and some Viewer Mail, Letterman Podcast talk and Good Vibes Breakfast etiquette. Let's all keep it classy... in real life AND social media. #THANKYOU

Is success as seemingly simple as putting one foot in front of the other? Sam Parr, founder of The Hustle, one of the fastest-growing media companies, focusing on millennials, tech and culture, fueled his rise by curiosity, action and googling. Segueing from helping “American Pickers” Mike Wolfe set up a Nashville store to running a hot dog stand to feed the fans, Sam googled how to start an internet business and then did. He moved to Silicon Valley, started and sold a few ventures, then the self-proclaimed nobody started a blog which evolved into The Hustle. Sam's career proves that hustle manifests success, more than degrees, connections and money. In this episode you'll learn: Building a business is like writing a hit song About the benefits of a PhD in the school of life: Poor, hungry and driven. Throwing money at a new business can give an artificial sense of success How to hustle to bring your goals to life Thank you, Sam, for joining me. Give it a listen, and fast forward your marketing mind in about 20 minutes. Brought to you by Mekanism.

Show Notes: 02:30​   Mags' directing debut in her Target Ball TikTok . 05:07​   Dan getting up early and being weird.  06:30​    Segueing.  10:01​   Unicycling is a productive way to exercise. 11:34​   Mags' game of singles – the sport, not relationships.​ 13:21   ​Hobnobbing and elbow tapping in We-Ho and No-Ho. 18:17​   Listener question from Zane: Do you have any suggestions on how to meet people in LA? 22:23​   Dan and Shay talk with Thomas Lennon, the Book writer of the new “Trading Places the Musical”  26:04​   Dogs are needy and Adventures in dumping 29:20​   Listener question from Michael: “Do you feel like your work doesn't represent your faith and values?” 33:00​   Dog park confrontation. 35:10​   Speaking of sobriety… Mags saw John Mulaney from the third row! (3rd row from the back of the Hollywood Bowl). Clarification: ​Dave Chappelle INTRODUCED the phone locking pouches at his shows that were made by Yoder. He didn't actually invent them. 40:55​  Should we have guests on the podcast? Who do you think?

National Polygamy Advocate ™ Mark Henkel was interviewed on Bards Logic Political Talk, a 3-hour show hosted by Robert Jetter Jr. (this episode is Part 10) on August 4, 2021. The complete show lasted 3 hours long. For this podcast, the entire show has been subdivided into several parts. In this Part 10, Mark Henkel introduced his own "other topic" that the host wanted Mark Henkel to also bring up, "Imposerism." Segueing from the previous Bible discussion, Mark Henkel gave his opening soundbite, “The truth is that there is not one single example in the Bible – anywhere - of God ever needing the false god of big government to impose or enforce any of His doctrines. Government is not something we see God ever needing. I think God is capable of doing that which He will.” From there, Mark Henkel taught the process of his new trademark line, “Imposition Creates Opposition™,” how authoritarians on the Left and authoritarians on the Right are actually working together as the “2 sides” of the same one coin of “Imposerism,” what that term means, and how both sides exploit the Imposerism within each of us to give us the “current era of Imposer vs. Imposer politics” in which an Imposer always gets elected, no matter which side wins. With each new Imposition from either side creating more and more Opposition, this is why “our society is getting angrier and angrier.” Mark Henkel explained that the solution is for each of us to self-choose to remove our own Imposerism and to follow the “Reverse Double Negative Golden Rule.” This episode ends with a co-panelist exclaiming, “Wow! Wow! Wow. This is interesting.” More parts of this interview will air in the following episodes of this podcast. http://www.NationalPolygamyAdvocate.com --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/nationalpolygamyadvocate/support

Episode 96 is out now! Ayden (@OnPointAyden) & Carl (@onpointcarl) discuss the NBA75 Anniversary along with some NBA hot takes, Zion and some all time rankings. Segueing into ranking a group of great wing/two guards, VC, T-Mac, Ray, Glide, The Truth, Grant Hill & Reggie. Keep an eye out for the new Keys to the Game podcast with JT & Mike on the Sportcodex feed. A NBA podcast covering all the important topics. Join the Sportcodex Community to talk many topics and partake in the banter: The Sportcodex Community Twitter: @sportcodex Listen on Spotify: The Sportcodex Show Old Stream: Listen on iTunes: The Sportcodex Show Like Sports cards? if so, check out card-codex.com

On this episode of The Gas Compression Podcast, host Michael Haning welcomes Dakotah Klein, Regional Sales & Operations Manager at Roto-Versal Compression Services. Roto-Versal operates out of Colorado, Wyoming, Utah, and other smaller facilities spread throughout the USA. The backbone of the company's operation, though, is in the Permian Basin. Dakotah manages the company's mechanical servers and works in sales. His experience in operations, plus 12 years on the drilling side, allows him to communicate value with his customers. Dakotah talks about the differences between working in the oil and gas industries. Namely, compression provides a lot more stability. He says compression isn't for the lazy folk who want intermittent time off. It's a non-stop workload. Segueing from the Skilled Trade Series, Michael asks Dakotah how attracting and retaining talent has worked for Roto-Versal. Dakotah shares the strong family values of Roto-Versal, and the fact that people are put first has helped spread the positive word. Roto-Versal hasn't faced a talent shortage, although he mentions that there's never a time when they're not hiring mechanics. Dakotah also provides insights into their apprenticeship-style program. Valuable takeaways may be applied to similar, privately held companies. Dakotah Klein Roto-Versal Compression Services Michael Haning DISCO Disco Inc. Looking for an expert partner in gas compression repair? We recondition and repair gas compressor cylinders and all their component parts as well as rotary screw compressors. If you are looking for a top-notch partner for your natural gas compression cylinder repair, then give us a call at 806-274-2214 or visit us online at Disco-Inc.com.

On today's episode of Behind the Grind Show, we sit down with Nic Schuck - author and owner of Emerald Coast Tours. We talk with Nic about how an entrepreneurship competition sparked his business, the ins and outs of book publishing, and much more. We hope you enjoy! Behind the Grind Show is brought to you by 165 EAST. Our title sponsor is The Spring Entrepreneur Hub - Your small business journey begins at the Spring Entrepreneur Hub. The Spring is not only a place where aspiring entrepreneurs can get help and connections to start their dream business, but starting in April The Spring will open its brand new Co-working space on the first floor of the SCI Building in downtown Pensacola. To learn more, visit TheSpringPensacola.com/BTG. Fueled by Tacos Mexicanos - where they're serving real Mexican street food in East Hill and downtown Pensacola. Use code "behindthegrind" on your East Hill online order for free queso. Sponsored by Cycle Joint - an electric bicycle shop located in historic Downtown Pensacola selling light electric vehicles including electric bikes, electric skateboards, and One wheels. Cycle Joint wants to help make your journey as much fun as your destination. Sponsored by Waterboyz Surf and Skate Shop and fueled by Cafe Single Fin's cold brew coffee. Sign up at www.waterboyz.com for the Pensacola Winter Classic Surf Contest (date TBA) at the Pensacola Beach Pier! There will be multiple divisions for everyone and cash prizes for the top 3 winners of the open division, as well as prizes from local businesses and brands like Nixon, Volcom, Xcel, and more! Be sure to follow Waterboyz on Instagram and Facebook for updates on the event! Sponsored by Shevlin Pierce at FBC Mortgage. Shopping for a mortgage or refinancing your home loan can seem like a big process. To have an easy, innovative, and fun home loan experience, you can trust Shevlin Pierce at FBC Mortgage. Beats by 6FYVE | Spotify | IG

THE HOTTEST UP & COMING COMIC IN LOS ANGELES TODAYIS A 71 YEAR OLD JEWISH MAN!eL YID, NEW CHARACTER CREATED AND PERFORMED BY NOTEDTV WRITER/PRODUCER AND ACTOR MARC SHEFFLER,IS POISED TO TAKE THE LA COMEDY SCENE BY STORMBelieve it or not, the hottest and fastest rising new comic on the LA ComedyScene today is “el Yid,” a 69 year old Jewish man whose long white beard and blackand white garb would immediately lead anyone to assume that he was a Chasidic Rabbifrom Brooklyn. In actuality, el Yid is a new comedic character conceived and performedby noted TV writer/producer and actor Marc Sheffler.A former comedian and member of the Comedy Store's legendary “Class of1977,” Marc has also been involved with countless television series and specials duringthe course of his long entertainment industry career, including "Sister, Sister," "Harryand the Hendersons," "Who's the Boss," “Sanford & Son,” "Charles in Charge,” “TheHappy Days Reunion Show," "The Best of the Hollywood Palace" and the Warner Bros.cartoon “How Bugs Bunny Won The West,” among many others.The character of el Yid was born in late 2015, after a horrific automobile accidentalmost cost Marc his life. After having been hit by a car while walking down the streetnear his home by an 85-year old man texting on his phone while driving, Marc spentmany months recovering from his broken limbs and shattered spirit. Once finally healed,however, Marc looked in the mirror and realized that not only had he been transformedinto an entirely new person, but he had a brainstorm! He'd also just given birth to anentirely new character. The experience re-ignited his passion to once again performstand-up comedy live, after a 35 year absence from the stage.el Yid has been making LA audiences howl with laughter ever since. He appearsregularly at Robin Hood Pub on Burbank & Woodman in Sherman Oaks on Wed-nesdays, and at Upstairs @ Palermo on Vermont by Franklin on Thursdays. Check out:https://www.facebook.com/elyidthecomedian/About Marc Sheffler:A native of Pittsburgh, PA, Marc Sheffler was given a truly unique gift by hisfather for his 8th birthday: The Three Stooges! The famous slapstick trio performed athis birthday party during a local appearance there in 1957. The Stooges brought Marcon stage with a “Nyuck, Nyuck, Nyuck,” and the infamous phrase “I oughtta moider ya.”Moe Howard dubbed little Marc “The Fourth Stooge.” “It was on that stage, at the age of8, when I first realized it was my destiny to become a comedian,” Marc says today.In 1969, Marc dropped out of college to head off to New York State's CatskillMountains, the center of the stand-up comedy universe at the time. There, he began hisprofessional career, with his first job as the Stage Manager of the 1500-seat nightclub atthe Raleigh Hotel. During his fourteen months there, Marc watched every comedian onthat circuit – one of whom was London Lee, the scion of a wealthy Long Island family.Marc worked for Lee for about a year and a half, at first running errands for him, andeventually writing some of his jokes. Marc even became an onstage part of his actduring more than 200 club dates. One lucky night, Lee told his audience that Marc wasan aspiring stand-up comedian, and without any advance notice, thrust him into thespotlight. Marc performed ten minutes, managing to generate enough laughs to earnhimself a spot onstage with Lee for an upcoming, two week engagement at thelegendary Copacabana nightclub in Manhattan.After striking out on his own in late 1971, Marc walked into his manager's office in NewYork City (Lloyd Greenfield Management, whose clients at the time also includedEngelbert Humperdinck), where he was told a movie audition awaited him. As a result ofthat audition, Sean Cunningham and Wes Craven cast Marc as one of their film's fourleads, “a teenage heroin junkie named Junior Stillo” in the movie “The Last House onthe Left” (1972). The film became Wes Craven's first, and is considered today to be thegranddaddy of the modern day slasher/crime genre. In early1972, Marc's life and careerchanged forever when Roger Ebert published a 4 1⁄2 star review of the film with this leadsentence: "'Last House on the Left' is a tough, bitter little sleeper of a movie that's aboutfour times as good as you'd expect.” Marc made dozens of personal appearancesacross the country to help promote the film, meeting thousands of fans, and basking inthe newfound glow of his first taste of fame.After his initial blast of exposure with “Last House,” Marc shifted gears back to hisoriginal passion: a career in stand-up comedy. He also began to pursue writing andproducing projects for television. In late 1975, he developed a movie-of-the-week ideaalong with award winning commercial director N. Lee Lacy (the man who'd directed theinfamous “Mean Joe Green/Coke” commercial.) In early 1976, Lacy's agents at WilliamMorris sold the pitch to NBC – as a result, Marc moved to LA, arriving in town with awriting credit and William Morris as his talent agency.During his earliest days in LA, Marc spent countless nights at the legendary ComedyStore, watching such legends as Richard Pryor, Paul Mooney, Jimmy Walker, GeorgeMiller, Tim Thomerson, and Steve Bluestein. The William Morris Agency had set him upwith his first Monday night gig at the club just a few weeks after he'd relocated to la-la-land. After his fourth Monday night, he walked up to legendary founder Mitzi Shore'stable, and asked her if he had what it took. She looked up and said, “Okay Marc, call infor spots.” Marc quickly thanked her and got out of her sight, before she had time toconclude she'd just made a huge mistake. Over the course of the next several Mondaynights, Marc honed his material, quickly perfecting his set, generating big laughs, andquickly made a place for himself as an Original Comedy Store Regular. Based on hissuccess, Marc became a lifetime member of the Comedy Store's infamous “Class of'77.” He even got his name inscribed on the Comedy Store's exterior “Wall of Fame,”alongside his peers at the time - Jay Leno, Robin Williams, David Letterman, MarcSummers, and other now well-recognized performers.Segueing into writing and producing for television, Marc's career path next ledhim to participate on such hit TV series as "Sister, Sister," "Harry and the Hendersons,""Who's the Boss," “Sanford and Son,” and "Charles in Charge." He also becameinvolved with numerous TV pilots, made for TV movies, and television specials,including "The Little Shop of Horrors" pilot, "The Happy Days Reunion Show" and "TheBest of the Hollywood Palace" specials. His first real studio gig was at Warner Bros.with Mel Blanc, the voice of the classic Warner Bros. cartoons, as the writer of the TVshort “How Bugs Bunny Won The West” in 1978. During this era, Marc worked closelywith a number of notable Executive Producers, including Norman Lear, (“Sanford andSon,”) George Schlatter (“If She Dies, She Dies,”) Don Mischer (“The People's ChoiceAwards,”) Steven Spielberg (“Harry And The Hendersons,) and Garry Marshall (“TheHappy Days Reunion Special”), among them.In 2002, Marc returned to the horror film genre, and produced David DeFalco'scontroversial movie “Chaos.” In 2006, he co-wrote and produced another horror film,“Girls Gone Dead.” And in 2010, Marc supervised the writing of the first two episodes ofa new TV series called “Oh Telon” - a half-hour situation comedy - at EICTV, in SanAntonio de los Baños, Cuba. The show was greenlit for production, and in fall of thatyear, Marc made television history by becoming the first person ever to ExecutiveProduce a sitcom in Cuba!The Birth of el Yid:From 2011 to 2015, Marc was on the faculty of Loyola Marymount University'sSchool of Film and Television, where he taught classes in Situation Comedy,Screenwriting, and Re-Writing. During his time there, he noticed an interestinginteraction between himself and his students (18 to mid-20's). Realizing he could makehis students laugh at will, he went back to the Comedy Store (after a nearly four decadehiatus) to watch the latest comedians, and to listen to the audiences so he could learnwhat they thought was funny. He'd begun to plot a course back to the stand-up comedystage.After a long Thanksgiving (2015) holiday trip to New York and Boston, Marc and his wife(a social worker), returned to LA exhausted and jet-lagged from the trip. A few morningslater, Marc's wife headed out the door to work. Prior to her leaving, Marc told her hewas going to walk up to Trader Joe's, to pick up a few things. A little after 1:00 PM, ashe started the stroll back home carrying his Trader Joe's grocery bag, Marc was struckfrom behind by a Porsche doing about 40 mph, driven by an 85 year old man who wastalking on a handheld cell phone. The driver, who'd gotten distracted by that call, driftedinto the parking/walking lane, forcefully hitting Marc and hurling him through the air.Marc's injuries were extensive: fractured cervical spine bones, fractured ribs, afractured wrist, a shredded meniscus in his knee, multiple scalp lacerations, headtrauma, a concussion, multiple contusions and abrasions, and oral trauma among them.His doctors told him he was quite lucky to be alive, and had escaped life as a paraplegicby just a few millimeters. Describing his pain as “literally indescribable,” Marc's onlyrelief wasn't from the drugs administered, but from where their effects sent him – hementally “time-tripped” back to 1977, to the Comedy Store, and to his beloved stand-upcomedy days. What replaced his full body agony was the full body pleasure he got from“reliving” those moments when he was on stage at the legendary nightclub, getting biglaughs, all those years ago.Marc spent the next three months in bed, nearly immobile – he didn't drive againfor six months. During his recovery, he received a call from a friend about appearing ona radio talk show dedicated to comedy and comedians, along with two other guests –comic Johnny Beehner, and Budd Friedman's former partner at the Improv, MarkLonow. The show went well. One of its hosts asked Marc if he was thinking aboutmaking a return to the stand-up comedy stage. And on air, Marc said yes.One afternoon shortly thereafter, Marc got out of the shower, and took a longlook in the mirror at his body, hair, and long white beard, all dripping wet. He looked athimself, pointed a finger, and ordered himself “not to go away.” Dashing into hisbedroom, Marc put on a white, buttoned-down dress shirt, a black tie, and a black suit,then placed a wide-brimmed, black Fedora on his head. After brushing out his beardand putting on some wire rimmed glasses, Marc then saw in the mirror an amalgam ofhis maternal grandfather, and the Orthodox Rabbi of his Temple's congregation.What is the name of this new character?” he asked himself. This isn't MarcSheffler. Who is this guy? He shall be el Yid, The Jew!Since then, el Yid has been performing before a wide spectrum of LA audiences,generating big laughs wherever he goes. Two, post-performance experiences – onewith an admitted anti-Semite, and another with an attractive single woman - have beenparticularly encouraging. As Marc explains, “By my metrics, if el Yid can get a lifelonganti-Semite to approach him and say he was going to reevaluate his prejudice, and acute, single woman to admit she felt regret because el Yid was married, clearly this newcharacter seems to be resonating with his audiences! Total strangers are starting tobelieve that el Yid is a real person. Now that I've given birth to this comedic new voice,it's time for el Yid to start making a really big noise!”# # #Media Contact:Dan HararyThe Asbury PR Agency310/859-1831dan@asburypr.com

Purchase a copy of Blind Pony, here: https://amzn.to/32Q8svNAn award-winning Creative Director/Writer, Sam is also an experienced director and producer. As a creative director, she's been instrumental in the creative development of campaigns for films, brands, and non-profits. Her creative direction for United Way Chicago, entitled "We're All Connected," earned her the prestigious Gold Hugo Award.Samantha's career began in the entertainment industry, under the mentorship of David Geffen at his venerable record label, Geffen Records working with artists Nirvana, Guns' N Roses, and Aerosmith. She went on to become Creative Director at Gramercy Pictures (now Focus Films.) Samantha's creative vision brought prominence to such independent features as Dazed and Confused, Fargo, The Usual Suspects, and Four Weddings And A Funeral. She continued her run of hits at Fox Searchlight with Waking Ned Devine and Boys Don't Cry before moving to Universal Pictures as Senior Vice President of Marketing and Advertising. Segueing to commercial advertising in 2004, she owned and operated Foundation Content, the production/editorial powerhouse she co-founded in Chicago with James Lipetzky, before the duo rebranded in Los Angeles as Wild Bill Creative in 2017.BLIND PONY As True A Story As I Can Tell, is Sam's first book, and was published on March 15, 2021, now available everywhere. Publisher's Weekly calls it "Unforgettable and raw… Hart's powerful debut, a gritty memoir rife with graphic details of abuse and triumph over it will break hearts." Kirkus Reviews raves, "Hart is a gifted storyteller…the book is ultimately inspirational. ​Samantha is currently working on a novel entitled, "The Capricious Life of Charlie Lane," as well as a volume of drawings and prose called, "When I Was A Muse." Connect with the Film School'd Podcast:Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/filmschooldInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/filmschooldpod/Twitter: https://twitter.com/FilmSchooldPodYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdgrswiL4AGviAOcbzfYCAwContinue the Conversation in the Official Film School'd Discussion Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/filmschoold​

Who you gonna call?Where you gonna look for it?Look in the mirror!* * *Stepping out of the Soto Zen lineage, we want to pay our respects to one of the great masters of the Rinzai lineage, Master Hakuin Ekaku. His life bridged the 17th and 18th centuries, so he was active during the colonial period, dying a few years before the Revolutionary War. A prolific teacher, calligrapher, and no-nonsense practitioner of Zen, he was a big advocate of zazen for his students, and is credited with reviving Rinzai Zen in Japan, established by Myoan Eisai some 600 years earlier, whose successor, Ryonen Myozen, traveled with Dogen Zenji to China, which culminated in Myozen's death in China, and Dogen's establishment of Soto Zen in Japan. Matsuoka Roshi dedicated a chapter of his collected talks to Hakuin's Zazen Wasan — Song of Zazen, his translation differing from the one we will review, which is available online at: Zen Buddhist Order of Hsu Yun.This also happens to be the version that I have set to music, so I am somewhat familiar with it.From the beginning all beings are Buddha.Like water and ice, without water no ice, outside us no Buddhas.That “all beings are Buddha” does not mean that they know it, however. As Master Dogen reminds us in Genjokoan, “When buddhas are truly buddhas, they do not necessarily notice that they are buddhas.” The reference to the differing states of the fundamental element of water — its liquid and solid form — is sometimes used as an analogy to the transformative and morphing quality of our buddha-nature. It can flow into and conform to any vessel, any set of causes and conditions.How near the truth, yet how far we seek.Like one in water crying, “I thirst!”Like the son of a rich man wand'ring poor on this earthwe endlessly circle the six worlds.That we do not know our buddha-nature is the fall from grace, and leads to our pursuit of satisfaction in all the wrong places, and for all the wrong reasons. Like the monk or nun who carries the wish-fulfilling mani jewel sewn into the hem of the robe, we run around like chickens with their heads off, when what we are looking for has been right here, right now, all along. What a pity. The “six worlds” are the Buddhist cosmological realms, from Tusita heaven as the highest, to Avici hell as the lowest. So this indicates that this mindless pursuit transcends any one lifetime.The cause of our sorrow is ego delusion.From dark path to dark path we've wandered in darkness,how can we be freed from the wheel of samsara?The primary delusion afflicting us, according to Buddhism, is that of the imputed or constructed self, which is not quite identical with the contemporary concept of ego, I think. The “self” questioned in Zen is not merely a psychological construction, but the physical body as well as the mind. Thus, in Master Dogen's shinjin datsuraku, dropping off of body-mind, the emptiness at the heart of corporeal existence is not just a concept, either, but the dynamic reality of ever-changing impermanence. The dark paths would include those based on superstitions, myth, and beliefs. They are dark, not because they are evil, but because ultimately they shed no light on reality. The version I am most familiar with translates the last line as “how can we be free of birth and death?” It begs the question, how would we even know that we want to be free of this cycle of life, “samsara.” Do we really know the alternative?The gateway to freedom is zazen Samadhi.Beyond exaltation, beyond all our praises the pure Mahayana.Here, Hakuin is talking about true freedom — including, I would suggest, freedom from the concept of getting free from birth and death. This would be contrary to the Bodhisattva vow to save all others, the operative dimension of Mahayana, the “greater vehicle.” Like the traditional American gospel song, “This train is bound for glory,” you are either on this bus or not. In Buddhism, we leave no one behind. We commit to returning to this battleground as long as necessary to bring our brothers and sisters home.Observing the Precepts, Repentance and Giving,the countless good deeds and the Way of Right Living, all come from zazen.As Master Dogen similarly reminds us, “What Precept is not fulfilled in zazen?” And “Without engaging in incense offering, bowing, chanting Buddha's name, repentance or reading scriptures, you should just wholeheartedly sit, and thus drop away body and mind.” All of the protocols and implications that are characteristic of the Buddhist worldview and lifestyle stem from this central practice, just sitting still enough, for long enough, and letting go of all attachments, including those to our body and mind.Thus one true Samadhi extinguishes evils.It purifies karma, dissolving obstructions.Then where are the dark paths to lead us astray?The Pure Lotus Land is not far away.This original self, discovered, or uncovered, in deep zazen, is the only true Samadhi — complete and natural balance within the physical, emotional, mental and social realms. We typically shy away from absolutist terms such as “evils,” substituting confusions or delusions, those frailties, follies and foibles to which we are generally vulnerable. Purifying our karma may seem indefensible as a claim, until we remember that purity in Zen has the connotation of nonduality. If we are resistant to the consequences of our actions, we defile our own karma, and create further obstructions. If we embrace it, we may see the light at the end of the tunnel. The “Pure Lotus Land” is, again, not “pure” in any absolute sense, or morally distinct from samsara, but is the other shore of nirvana coming to us, as Dogen promises. Our charge, our practice, is to see through the delusion of samsara, to the underlying reality of nirvana.Hearing this truth, heart humble and grateful.To praise and embrace it, to practice its Wisdom,brings unending blessings, bring mountains of merit.“Hearing this truth” does not naively imply that simply hearing words pointing to it will do the trick. We must vow to “hear the true Dharma,” as Master Dogen exhorts us to do in his famous vow. A natural state of humility and gratitude accompanies and informs this process. To put it into practice, fully embracing it and praising it, to oneself and others, entails the recognition of “unending blessings” and “mountains of merit” built into existence itself. Our practice, however worthy, does not create it.And if we turn inward and prove our True Nature, thatTrue Self is no-self, our own self is no-self, we go beyond ego and past clever words.Then the gate to the oneness of cause-and-effect is thrown open.Not two and not three, straight ahead runs the Way.Turning “inward” seemingly contradicts a saying attributed to Hakuin Zenji, whose writing is unusually descriptive for the Zen canon, where he asserted that there is no inside and/or outside, something like that. But we have to assume that the great master was perfectly capable of expressing himself on both relative and absolute levels. And zazen, it must be admitted, at least begins with a turning away from other distractions, and to that degree, turning “inward.” Wherein, of course, the rabbit hole we go down ends up coming out on the other side, or back where we started. Like a living Klein bottle.Here he affirms, and reconfirms, that our “True Self is no-self,” hyphenated, so as to indicate an innate state, rather than an outright denial of self. No-self would then capture the emptiness that is at the heart of our so-called own self, as it is for everything else. This is going past any self-identification, or ego, no matter how sophisticated or clever our attributions. Here, the “oneness” of cause-and-effect, again hyphenated, I think indicates his understanding that they are not-two, as we heard in the poem Hsinhsinming — Trust in Mind, of the third ancestor in China. “Straight ahead” is the “Moving forward is not a matter of far or near” of Master Kisen's Sandokai — Harmony of Difference and Sameness.Our form now being no-form, in going and returning we never leave home.Our thought now being no-thought, our dancing and songs are the Voice of the Dharma.Form is the first of the five skandhas, or aggregates, of sentient existence. It is the space in which we all begin practicing zazen. But eventually, the boundaries of our own form become fuzzy, to the point of joining us to — rather than separating us from — everything else. When sensation sets in, it overtakes form, much as energy trumps matter. Segueing through the skandha of thought, impulse, and even, eventually, consciousness itself, it becomes clear that the whole enchilada is nothing more than the Dharma. Whatever we say and do expounds the buddha-dharma, whether we know it or not.How vast is the heaven of boundless Samadhi!How bright and transparent the moonlight of wisdom!Here are Hakuin's descriptive powers in full flower. Elsewhere I have read that, walking without a lantern on a dark, moonless night (remembering that there were no city lights in those days), if the surrounding darkness suddenly is infused with what seems to be moonlight, enlightenment is near. Matsuoka Roshi made the startling declaration that, “The light by which you see things comes from you!” Buddha was said to have told his students, after praising them for their progress in meditation, “But your minds have not yet begun to shine.” The moonlight brightening the night earth has long symbolized enlightenment.What is there outside us? What is there we lack?Nirvana is openly shown to our eyes.Here is the inside-outside illusion again, expressed as the all-inclusive “don't know,” “not-two” Mind of Zen. “Nothing lacking, and nothing in excess.” That this is the much-vaunted Nirvana relieves us of any notion that we have to go elsewhere, somewhere special, to find it. This is how the other shore comes to us, as promised by Master Dogen. There is no secret anywhere, no trick up the Masters' sleeves.This earth where we stand is the pure lotus land!And this very body, the body of Buddha.The “pure lotus land,” here not capitalized, perhaps intentionally, is nothing more than this very planet, that is our contemporaneous, and temporary, home. Again, not an imaginary paradise in some other dimension, an afterlife. This life, and this body, if we are to believe the great master, is the only true life and body of Buddha. It is only that we have to wake up to this truth. That is, we have to die to the limited self, with its attachment to body and mind as conceived, in order to be reborn in our original body, which is our true life, and our true home. “Outside us, no Buddhas. Like water and ice, without water, no ice.” This is already true, according to Zen, so all we have to do is to realize it.* * *Elliston Roshi is guiding teacher of the Atlanta Soto Zen Center and abbot of the Silent Thunder Order. He is also a gallery-represented fine artist expressing his Zen through visual poetry, or “music to the eyes.”UnMind is a production of the Atlanta Soto Zen Center in Atlanta, Georgia and the Silent Thunder Order. You can support these teachings by PayPal to donate@STorder.org. Gassho.Producer: Kyōsaku Jon Mitchell

Guest Django Skorupa Panelists Justin Flory | Richard Littauer Show Notes Hello and welcome to Sustain Open Source Design! The podcast where we talk about sustaining open source with design. Learn how we, as designers, interface with open source in a sustainable way, how we integrate into different communities, and how we as coders, work with other designers. Our special guest today is Django Skorupa, who recently graduated from Rochester Institute of Technology with a degree in Industrial Design and is now working as a UI/UX Designer for the internal team at Open@RIT Academic Open Source Program Office (OSPO). We find out more about what Django is doing at Open@RIT, he explains how bad design keeps your community stagnated, and why he thinks design is kept separate from developers in the open source space. He also explains some things he's struggling with and what he's trying to learn, he goes in depth with his assessment of design, and he shares some great resources and advice if you are a new designer wanting to get involved in the open source community that helped him on his journey. Go ahead and download this episode now to find out more! [00:01:50] Django tells us what kind of leap he took going from the industrial side into the much more collaborative, interactive way of working in the open source side of things. [00:08:13] Find out what Django is doing at Open@RIT. [00:14:04] Richard wonders what open source kitchens Django plays in and if he does open source on his own how has that informed his own experience of also working with the OSPO. [00:16:12] We learn how Django sees open source. [00:18:46] Why does Django see the developers and designers kept so separate from each other in the open source space? [00:22:20] Justin wonders what Django learned from his peers and other communities that he was working with while he was doing his teaching role and if anything surprised him when he went out and worked across these different communities and peers, and especially what he's learned from Rahul Tuli. [00:26:10] Django tells us about some things he's struggling with that he's trying to learn. He mentions using Roboto font. [00:30:14] We find out if Django has started teaching yet, what his future plans are, and his assessment of design. [00:34:27] If you are a designer and want to get involved in the open source community, Django shares some resources, and a hot tip that has helped him in his journey. He mentions Red Hat as a great resource and why. [00:36:40] Find out where you can follow Django on the internet. Quotes [00:17:21] “I've always seen open source as a subsection of open Asterisk.” [00:17:52] “I think that as we move forward in the whole world, open in general is a humanitarian choice, because it is a support for people who cannot or don't want to engage with the more closed forms of education, the more closed forms of thinking, the more closed forms of interaction.” [00:21:08] “I changed my title when I was hired on as a UI/UX person from strategic designer to UI/UX and it was like the world immediately got brighter and more friendly.” [00:28:48] “The biggest struggle is using open things, trying to make everything open when you are creative, and a lot of your tools are not open.” [00:31:46] “I think that design is firmly 50/50 between skill and theory.” [00:32:37] “Design and making, while extremely similar and both parts of a process, are not the same thing.” [00:32:45] “To design is to think about the broader scope of why something happens.” [00:32:50] “Design is so much theory and so much consideration on a massive scale.” [00:32:59] “It needs to be a proper balance between pragmatism and holistic view.” [00:36:13] “Try and find places that are really transparent, try and find places that are into talking about what they do, try and find places that go on podcasts and talk about what they do, and then find those people and pick their brains and steal as much information as you possibly can from a conversation with them and write all of it down.” Spotlight [00:37:15] Justin's spotlight is Fedora Badges. [00:38:15] Richard's spotlight is a Justin Flory. [00:39:45] Django's spotlights are two open source projects: The League of Moveable Type and Unsplash.com. Links Open Source Design Twitter (https://twitter.com/opensrcdesign) Open Source Design (https://opensourcedesign.net/) Sustain Design & UX working group (https://discourse.sustainoss.org/t/design-ux-working-group/348) Sustain Open Source Twitter (https://twitter.com/sustainoss?lang=en) SustainOSS Linkedin (https://www.linkedin.com/company/sustainoss/) Richard Littauer Twitter (https://twitter.com/richlitt?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor) Justin Flory Twitter (https://twitter.com/jflory7?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor) Django Skorupa Linkedin (https://www.linkedin.com/in/django-skorupa-2ab959108) Django Skorupa Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/djangoskorupadesign/?hl=en) Open@RIT (https://www.rit.edu/research/open) Beyond Code and Licenses: Co-developing Community Strategies Within Academia-Online Event with Mike Nolan (eventyay) (https://eventyay.com/e/e7dfbfc4/session/7276) Rahul Tuli Linkedin (https://www.linkedin.com/in/rtuli/) Roboto (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roboto) Karen Sandler Twitter (https://twitter.com/o0karen0o) Design at Red Hat (https://design.redhat.com/) Fedora Badges (https://badges.fedoraproject.org/) Sustain Podcast-Episode 21-How Playing Minecraft Opened a Door to the Open Source World with Justin W. Flory (https://podcast.sustainoss.org/21) The League of Moveable Type (https://www.theleagueofmoveabletype.com/) Unsplash (https://unsplash.com/) Credits Produced by [Richard Littauer] (https://www.burntfen.com/) (https://www.burntfen.com/) Edited by Paul M. Bahr at [Peachtree Sound] (https://www.peachtreesound.com/) (https://www.peachtreesound.com/) Show notes by DeAnn Bahr [Peachtree Sound] (https://www.peachtreesound.com/) (https://www.peachtreesound.com/) Special Guest: Django Skorupa.

Some of the best and most celebrated podcasts have really just been amazing stories told well. As podcasts gain more traction in popular culture, the importance of podcast storytelling has increased as well. No matter if you're doing a dramatic series or just telling the news, the foundations of storytelling can elevate your podcast to new heights. To discuss the importance of storytelling in podcasting, Isabelle Mongeau joins the Q'd Up Podcast on Podcasting once again. Isabelle is the Head of Script Writing at Q'd Up and is responsible for many of the great stories you'll find within our clients' podcasts. Isabelle provides her unique insight and experiences so you can tell a better and more engaging story. Listen to John and Matt discuss podcast storytelling:Facebook Podcasts nowhere to be seen (1:29) At the time of recording, Facebook Podcasts had officially launched but none of the promised features had been seen live on the site. Matt and John break down the latest news and what is likely happening as Facebook slowly rolls out features. Amazon pays $80 million for the Smartless podcast (3:47) Amazon is the latest to pay big bucks to lock up podcast creators, paying up to $80 million for the Smartless podcast featuring actors Will Arnett, Jason Bateman, and Sean Hayes. While the deal only features one week of exclusivity, Matt explains why there might be more to this deal than seems on the face. NPR reporters wins Pulitzer award for ‘No Compromise' podcast (7:24) Podcasts have been steadily earning more attention in mainstream culture and once again, a podcast has reached new ground. Reporters for NPR podcast “No Compromise” became the first to win the prestigious Pulitzer Award as a podcast. Tribeca Festival features podcasts (9:10) Continuing on the trend of podcasts getting more exposure, the Tribeca Festival highlighted 12 podcasts across fiction and narrative non-fiction categories. That puts independent podcasts right alongside independent films and television, creating opportunities never before seen. Isabelle's introduction (11:52) Segueing from the importance of storytelling in podcasting, Q'd Up's Head of Script Writing Isabelle Mongeau joins the show. History of storytelling (12:23) Isabelle shares her personal insight into the importance of storytelling podcasts. She also takes a look back at history to show storytelling has been a mainstay in every medium, from cavemen to new media. The impact of storytelling podcasts (17:52) John and Isabelle explain why storytelling can be so impactful, at times being more engaging than a visual medium. Between painting the picture in your head to the release of  The chemicals behind storytelling (20:10) When a story creates tension, it creates and releases oxytocin -- the empathy chemical. That means you as a storytelling podcast listener relate to the characters and want to keep following along to see how it ends. Beginning your story (23:41) As Isabelle notes, the beginning can sometimes be the most important part of a story. If you're looking to build a world-class story, start with a question that your story is looking to answer. Using an outline to build your story (26:24) Isabelle believes every podcaster should be creating an outline of their show, no matter if it's a narrative podcast or not.  Diversity and inclusion in screenwriting (38:03) Having a diverse background or group of writers can help elevate a story and be more authentic. Matt and Isabelle discuss how diversity and inclusion can provide unique insights and eliminate potential blindspots to make your show better. John provides some stats to show just how diverse podcasting is. Support Q'd Up:https://www.qd-up.com/ (Q'd Up - Website) https://www.instagram.com/qdupaudio/ (Q'd Up - Instagram) https://twitter.com/QdUpAudio (Q'd Up - Twitter) John - Email https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-luckenbaugh (John - LinkedIn) https://twitter.com/MatthewS_NFL (Matt - Twitter)...

In the second episode of Poodwill: Summer Break, we review Chapters 1 & 2 of The Fault in Our Stars and discover that Poodwill has a secret archenemy. Along the way we pay homage to our international listener and invite that special person onto future episodes (for real email us and we will sort everything out). Now hit play, relax in your beach chair, and look out for the single ladies! Discussed Topics: 2000's Pop, Hesse - Germany, Book Report 1, Misleading Carmen Sandiego, Segueing on a Segway, and Good Old Fashioned True Crime Podcasts Email: poodwill@gmail.com Twitter: @poodwill Cover Art by @artofaudreywagnon on Instagram help I'm trapped in the computer press Alt+F4 to let me out

It's a dark & stormy night and we've decided to discuss our favourite horror flicks! We discover that Hamish has a very loose idea of what the word 'horror' actually means and Jasher publicly issues an apology to Hamish's mother-in-law. Some of the topics touched on this episode: Super scary horror movies, I'm Thinking of Ending Things, Night of the Living Dead and the current state of movie theatres. Also, be sure to join our Discord Server or send us an email at collectaneaofeverything@gmail.com. Big thanks to Shaenon K. Garrity for our artwork and Anton Brown (ACBLNB) for the theme music!

Samantha Hart's career has spanned music, film, and advertising, earning her a reputation as an award-winning Creative Director. Early in her career, Hart worked with top artists at Geffen, including: Cher, Aerosmith, Nirvana and Guns 'N Roses, to name just a few. Segueing to the role as Creative Director in the film industry, her creative marketing campaigns brought prominence and Academy Awards to films such as “Fargo,” “Dead Man Walking,” and “Boys Don't Cry,” while earning cult status for independent features,  “Four Weddings and A Funeral,”  “Priscilla Queen of the Desert," and “Dazed and Confused,” which is enjoying a resurgence in popularity from the new book Alright, Alright, Alright. The book details Hart's campaign for the Richard Linklater film that has become synonymous with the indie due to its iconic stoned happy face and irreverent copy. With her partner, Samantha built a multi-million dollar company in the advertising industry, Foundation, with over forty employees and offices in Chicago and Los Angeles. Under her leadership, Foundation earned distinction as an early disrupter of the traditional production and post-production models, combining the two under one roof. Samantha currently lives in Los Angeles with her husband, director James Lipetzky, and their teenage sons, Davis and Denham. Her daughter, Vignette, and her granddaughters, Andromeda and Ondine, reside in Massachusetts. Music Credit: Ketsa - Tribal-Bible

You ask it, Andy and Ari (might) answer it! In this edition of 'Dear Andy', the guys discuss if program-building experience is a requisite for being a head coach and if Josh Heupel can pull Tennessee up from the depths of the SEC (1:15). Also, where do the Volunteers rank among SEC football programs (15:30)? Can we please stop photoshopping recently hired coaches in their new school's drip before they even step a foot on campus (24:15)? What's the probability Steve Sarkisian flips Quinn Ewers back to Texas (28:30), and how can you possibly judge a coach's ability to run an organization by what he orders at a steakhouse ( but we did it anyways - 33:30)? Segueing seamlessly into this iteration of Random Rankings, what are the guys' favorite steakhouse sides (36:15)? Follow Andy on Twitter: @Andy_Staples Follow Ari on Twitter: @AriWasserman Join The Athletic for just $3.99 a month! Visit: theathletic.com/andystaples Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jack, Mike and Nate further discuss the incident at the US Capitol. The group talk about Trump pardoning himself, or hoping Vice President Pence pardons him. Jack notes this would entail Trump having to resign his position, then rely on Pence to follow through on pardoning; something Pence likely won’t do at this point. Segueing into a special “headline blitz” edition of this podcast’s How Fucking Dumb Are You segment, Jack rolls off the most bizarre headlines to emerge from the coup attempt. Boy, were there some weird ones. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/hardlyfocused/support

Part One: Trump Supporters Storm the US Capitol Jack, Mike and Nate here for a more serious episode of Hardly Focused. The big topic in this episode is the failed coup attempt at the United States Capitol, on January 6. The group weighs in on the subject, including President Trump’s potential (and second) impeachment, invoking the 25th amendment, and more. Part Two: The Craziest Headlines from the Failed Coup Attempt Jack, Mike and Nate further discuss the incident at the US Capitol. The group talk about Trump pardoning himself, or hoping Vice President Pence pardons him. Jack notes this would entail Trump having to resign his position, then rely on Pence to follow through on pardoning; something Pence likely won’t do at this point. Segueing into a special “headline blitz” edition of this podcast’s How Fucking Dumb Are You segment, Jack rolls off the most bizarre headlines to emerge from the coup attempt. Boy, were there some weird ones. Part Three: We Watch a Danish Cartoon Called “John Dillermand” In completely different news, a bizarre kids’ show from Denmark emerges. Jack, Mike and Nate watch part of the first episode of “John Dillermand,” featuring – as CNN put it – “a man with a huge and uncontrollable penis.” To best enjoy this segment, watch it on our YouTube channel! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/hardlyfocused/support

Kev and Malcolm Anthony are in the studio talking about the comeback win Tulsa Hurricanes displayed last night. Also in Local Love, Thunder reveal a new familiar head coach. Segueing into The NBA, trouble in Houston may lead to new homes for some superstars and other basketball news. The boys also cover NFL Week 10, Oddballs and MMA/Boxing recaps to bring you up to speed. Be sure to enjoy the Jam and Flavor this week! Share the show! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/settherecordpod/support

In this episode, we set our sights on the beginning and the ends of the cosmos; we have interesting discussion interpreting and trying to understand the great mysteries such as the Big Bang and what happened before and after this monumental event? We then discuss the concept of a bouncing universe with a cosmic downtown; the great attractor, and jump the gun with a couple fun but early would you rather questions regarding universal end times We touch on light philosophy surrounding math - how math is universal but there’s no universal math technique or theory. We discuss the concept/tragedy that is common core math being taught in schools now. We bring it back to outer space, where we discuss the concept of the galactic zoo and the Kardashev scale in depth. Segueing into discussion on matters a little closer to home, we bring up the forest fires in the Western United States; talk about misinformation vs information, the concept of media literacy, and how media outlets sell themselves and information to their audience. We end the show by discussing what's cool about science, some really crazy natural disasters, and the stats regarding Mother Earth’s wildest volatilities.  Segments include: Would You Rather?, Lightning Round Trivia, What’s Weird in the World Today?, and Epic Rant

Segueing into a different city department now, we interview Reuben Simmons, who is involved in community outreach and programming in Beacon, and worked his way up to being promoted as Beacon’s Highway Superintendent, until he wasn’t. His is the only job demotion you might see in LinkedIn. We look into why, what happened, and what is currently happening. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/waitwhatisthat/message

Welcome back to another episode of The N'Sensitive Podcast! The guys return with their longest episode to date, starting off in the Music segment, they touch on French Montana vs Kendrick Lamar, Kanye becoming a billionaire, DaBaby saying he can make a conscious album, best mixtape discography's of all-time, and more (7:45)! In Whats Trending, they discuss more Coronavirus news across the country, and then discuss Amazon workers going on strike, Kim Jong Un's rumored death, a Louisiana pastor being arrested, and much more (37:00)! In an early Lets Talk segment, the guys discuss an anonymous child support situation posted on Facebook (82:00). In the "Fuck You" segment, P gives this week's pick to ESPN (86:40). Segueing into the Sports segment, P gives some NFL and NBA news including the 2020 NFL Draft and Gronk signing with the Buccaneers, and then discusses thoughts on episodes 3 and 4 of "The Last Dance" documentary (89:20). Ending off in the Q&A segment, the guys answer a fan sent question on whether or not chivalry is dead in 2020 (103:00). Stay tuned for Episode 42, and as always, thanks for listening!Follow the guys on IG and Twitter!P: @pernell1992 on IG and TwitterBrandon: @rodwell_bd on IG, @rodwell_b on TwitterPodcast: @thensensitivepodcast on IG

After a brief refreshing of the last four parts Rabbi Steve Berkson continues in Matthew 6:24, making the point that there are those who would start a teaching at this verse. He states that when other teachers skip ahead in this chapter some of the meaning of what Yehsua was getting across to his followers would be lost without the context of the previous twenty-three verses. Matthew 6:24 states a basic relational principle–that you cannot serve two masters. In this situation, as Rabbi Steve points out, it’s a question of who are you trying to please or impress, man or Elohim? If you try to please both you will become frustrated, ending up pleasing nobody because of how diametrically opposed each party is from the other. Yeshua is making the point that it is impossible. Then, moving into verses 25-34 Rabbi Berkson begins a section on something that all of us can succumb to – worry. Yet, Yeshua assures and comforts us with the knowledge that we are the most important to our Father in all of his creation. Connecting to the topic of ‘worry’ Rabbi Steve gets into what he calls a “problem with husbands and wives.” He provides some excellent counsel for the dynamics of the spousal relationship. He also encourages and exhorts you to become the man or the woman that Yah intended you to be–the journey starts from where in your life you are today. Segueing from there into Matthew 11:28-30 Rabbi Berkson points out that Yeshua is speaking discipleship language when he talks about taking his yoke upon you. Taking on the yoke and burden of Yeshua is also the solution to worry. Rabbi Steve gives an unexpected and interesting perspective on the word ‘light’ in verse 30. Moving forward, Rabbi Berkson links the teaching of Yeshua with the words of Paul in 2 Corinthians 6:1 through 7:2 as Paul writes to his assembly in Corinth about being ‘yoked’, or learning from unbelievers. • What is a “believer”? • What does it mean to be “lawless”? Once again, Rabbi Steve Berkson delves deeper into scripture to uncover even more dimensions of Darkness and Light. Don't miss out on new teachings every week. You are welcome to post your comments and please click on the "LIKE" button if this teaching has been a blessing to you. For more information about MTOI (Messianic Torah Observant Israel), visit our website at http://www.mtoi.org Join us on Social media! Like us on Facebook: www.facebook.com/mtoiworldwide Follow us on Instagram: @mtoiworldwide Follow us on Twitter: @mtoiworldwide We are located in Cleveland TN. If you would like to know more about us, we would love to hear from you! Feel free to visit us on our website wwww.mtoi.org, email us at admin@mtoi.org or call us at 423-250-3020. Join us for Shabbat Services & Torah Study LIVE Streamed on our Main YouTube Channel every Shabbat at 1pm (EST) and every Tuesday for Torah Study Live Stream at 8pm (EST)!

In the very first episode of the Perseverance Overrated show, Deepthi Rajan chats with Prayukth K V, an emerging technology marketing thought leader and the CMO-IoT at Subex, about his journey so far. Segueing from traditional marketing to building a career in emerging technology, those of IoT and IoT cybersecurity, Prayukth has demonstrated leadership in building successful corporate brands in the digital transformation space from the ground up, defining the business strategy, reinventing his own personal brand, and more.His latest report on IoT cybersecurity, released last month, has taken the industry by storm with its research findings. His report, which has been extensively covered by all the leading media publications, is the very first to link recent cyber-attacks on critical infrastructure to geopolitical tensions in the region. Prayukth has been actively involved in productizing and promoting cross-ecosystem collaboration in the Internet of Things (IoT) space for over 5 years now. A marketer by profession, Prayukth has, through his many roles, evolved a model for rapid introduction of IoT into different verticals by deriving custom use cases that can be deployed faster and are better aligned to business outcomes. In his current role, he has taken Subex’ IoT business to new geographies through a mix of custom messaging, market primed tactical interventions and by showcasing Subex’ product and research capabilities. Prayukth has thus far established two brands ground-up, handled a complex M&A project for Oracle and delivered significant revenue traction for various businesses. With over a decade’s experience in technology marketing, Prayukth has a Bachelors degree from St Josephs Bangalore, a Masters in Science from Bangalore University and is a graduate of IIM Bangalore’s Executive General Management Programme.Key Points From The EpisodeWhat inspired Prayukth to write his well-publicized report "The State of IoT Security"? [00:03:26]Overcoming challenges related to IoT security data in the public domain [00:06:17]Flashback - From journalism, media relations, research to marketing [00:07:47]Return to school experience after more than a decade [00:10:53]Zeroing in on IoT [00:14:13]Tips and tactics for breaking into emerging technology marketing [00:16:16]Was it all smooth sailing once Prayukth got his new, shiny job in IoT Marketing? [00:17:35]How is emerging tech marketing different from traditional marketing? [00:20:31]How to deal with organizational obsession with short term goals especially when it comes to niche, emerging technology? [00:23:10]Biggest achievement - rebranding India's first product success story [00:25:00]Succeeding with building one of the first IoT brands in India and APAC [00:27:24]Skills imperative to succeed not just in emerging technology but also in a hyper-dynamic world [00:29:45]Links Mentioned In The EpisodePrayukth’s report "The state of IoT security - 2019" - http://bit.ly/36rBBdwIIM Bangalore Executive General Management Programme - http://bit.ly/2RHrtJg Slideshare - https://www.slideshare.net/prayukth1

Life Coach/Strategic Interventionist, David Couch, shares how he spent 16 years on an ambulance and then realized that he wasn't helping people at the level he wanted to. He chose, instead, to help others create lasting change and decided to move into the self-growth/mental health industry. 

An exhilarating North London Derby at the Emirates headlined a great weekend of football and we take a fond look back over starring roles from Granit Xhaka and Harry Kane, the pros and cons of Chelsea’s wobbly start to the season and Everton and Wolves playing out a humdinger of a ding dong.Segueing neatly on we also look at Swansea’s rout(ledge) of Leeds, a Sebastien Coates disaster-class and Eric Cantona’s latest role. This is the synopsis of the podcast. We love football.Search ‘Football Ramble’ on social media to find us, and email us here: show@thefootballramble.com***Please take the time to rate and review us on Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your pods. It means a great deal to the show and will make it easier for other potential listeners to find us. Thanks!*** Further reading: Could the North London Derby show that the top six isn’t as impenetrable as it may look?https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/premier-league/arsenal-tottenham-result-premier-league-big-six-epl-north-london-derby-lack-of-identity-transfer-a9088106.htmlDid Sadio Mane have a case with his strop at Mo Salah?https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/49538837“Humans will become eternal”, says Cantona”:https://www.theguardian.com/football/2019/aug/30/eric-cantona-eternal-war-crime-king-lear See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Petra Hanson, singer/songwriter, storyteller and filmmaker talks about losing her "kidulthood".

Petra Hanson, Singer, Storyteller and Filmmaker talks about unconventional life path, pop singing in Japan and losing her "kidulthood". Oh, and so much more!

Week one of Wimbledon is in the books and we're back to recap the carnage, the drama, and the surprises. Without question, Coco Gauff was the biggest story through the first three rounds; her win over Venus Williams was part of an onslaught of suffering for some of the biggest names. We talk her magical run, the Nadal-Kyrgios match, the latest ATP Council drama, before taking a look at the remaining 32 players in the men's and women's draws.   02:05 Seeds and such: oh, the carnage 08:34 Segueing into Coco Gauff's dream run 22:42 Nadal-Kyrgios delivered on the court 30:12 Parmentier dances on Maria's grave & Fabio's latest 36:31 Stan's doing the MOST. Why? 37:46 Novak, Gimelstob, and more ATP Council DRAMA 47:55 What we're not being told: reading between the lines 53:41 Andy and Serena headline Mixed Doubles 58:04 Serena caught up in manufactured drama 61:44 Perusing the remaining singles matches

University of Mary Washington research librarian and baseball historian Jack Bales (Before They Were the Cubs: The Early Years of Chicago's First Professional Baseball Team) joins the podcast to help us dig into the surprisingly rich history of Major League Baseball’s long-time North Side Chicago franchise well prior to 1903, when they formally adopted their now-signature nickname.  While even some of the most ardent of Chicago Cubs fans unwittingly believe that year to be the team’s first season (it was actually their 28th in the National League, as well as 34th as a professional baseball club); and the “friendly confines” of Wrigley Field to be their original and only home (in fact, not until 1916 when they adopted the former Federal League Chicago Whales’ Weeghman Park, their sixth place of residence dating back to 1870) – the history of the “Cubs” long predates their apocryphal launch. Bales touches on some of the cornerstones of primordial Cubs history including: Their actual start in 1870 as the Chicago White Stockings – one of the nation’s first professional baseball clubs – playing in the largely amateur National Association of Base Ball Players (and winning the championship); Segueing into a new, first-ever all-pro National Association (of Professional Base Ball Players) as a charter member the following year; Launching as a charter member of the 1876 National League – winning its first title behind ace pitcher (and future sporting goods baron) Albert Spalding, and capturing six of the league’s first ten pennants behind baseball’s first superstar Adrian “Cap” Anson; Becoming colloquially known as “Anson’s Colts” – until fully adopting the new nickname circa 1890; Anson’s abrupt firing in 1897, leaving sportswriters to rebrand the suddenly star-less Colts as the “Orphans”; AND The informal early 1900s origins of the now-iconic “Cubs” moniker, and how it officially stuck by the 1903 season. Please support the show by visiting and making a purchase from one (or more!) of our great sponsors: SportsHistoryCollectibles.com (code: GOODSEATS); Streaker Sports (code: GOODSEATS); 503 Sports (code: SEATS); and OldSchoolShirts.com (code: GOODSEATS)!

Introduction “Medicare for All” is an intentional misnomer used to disguise free, single-payer insurance as the popular Medicare plan that so many are currently using for health insurance. Most parts of real Medicare require some form of cost sharing by patients. Medicare Part B, for outpatient medical expenses, has a standard premium of $1,626/per year with an annual deductible of $185, plus a 20% copayment. Dental coverage, vision insurance and useful drug coverage cost even more money. Medicare for All would have much broader coverage, no cost sharing, and fewer choices of healthcare plans.  MFA would cover a wide variety of dental, vision, drug and mental health services not covered by Medicare. The most recent version of the House bill would add long-term nursing and home healthcare. All of this would mean dramatically higher federal spending; the various estimates come in between $2.5T and $3.5T/year. That’s trillions of dollars per year with a current federal budget of $4.4T; meaning that the budget would increase by about 68% right off the bat. Supporters of MFA are not being at all honest about what they are pushing. Opponents of MFA are being strangely silent because of ignorance, fear or for not having a platform. That’s the subject of today’s 10-minute podcast. Continuing If you want no cost, single-payer insurance, then stand up and say it. Don’t hide behind giving everyone good ol’ Medicare. Hey, if it is good enough for our seniors, then it’s good enough for everyone. Right? And if you are against no cost, single-payer insurance, then stand up and be counted. Know what it costs. Know the difference between MFA and currently popular Medicare. This is exactly like the border security debate, where statements and claims like “Walls don’t work”, “Walls are inhuman” and, “We do not have a border problem.” really means that the speaker wants open borders. The correct assessment is that voters in America would not support a push for open borders, as they would not support single-payer health insurance, so let’s just pretend that we want something less drastic. Let’s creep up on what we really want. In other words, lie. How many have heard the story about the frog in boiling water? If you drop a frog in boiling water, he will jump out and save himself. If you put a frog in a pot full of room temperature water and gradually heat it to boiling, he will stay in and die. Learning from the experiments on frogs, most leading supporters of both open borders and single-payer health insurance are putting us in tepid water, completely prepared to raise the temperature to where they want it--be that a nation with no borders, or a country with no cost insurance that covers everything for everybody. I am clearly not for either, but that is not today’s central point. It is clear in today's example that the frogs represent Americans, us, you and me. Politicians of a certain stripe are putting us into the room temperature water, fully intending to raise the temperature gradually so that we will not notice and jump out. Now for Today’s Key Point: If you are for something, have the courage of your convictions and stand up and claim what you want. Don’t do the frog thing. Conversely, if you are against something, know what you are talking about, and stand up on your hind legs and call it out. Be heard. Be effective. And don’t be the frog. Not being the frog who lets the heat creep up on him is part of what Revolution 2.0™ is all about. Not letting yourself be put in the water in the first place is more of what we are about. As is keeping fellow Americans out of the pot. More of what we are about is taking control from those who use these kind of tactics to fulfill their personal and professional agendas. Segueing from the specifics of today’s topic to overall principles, the core, driving principles at Revolution 2.0, are: Personal Responsibility; take it, teach it and,

Vote(d) YES on Question 3 this November 2018 to affirm the rights of Transgender women, men & "all that layeth betwixt" (thanks Natalie!) Jordan and I discuss the upcoming ballot initiative that could set a precedent for Transgender individuals throughout the Nation, not just in Massachusetts! A Yes vote on Question 3 this November affirms the rights of our transgender family members, friends & neighbors, and sets a precedent that discrimination of any kind is NOT ACCEPTABLE ... period. Segueing into the #nerdcast portion, we discuss Retro games from the Sony Playstation 1 era, including Tomb Raider, Parasite Eve, Arc the Lad, Final Fantasy VII, VIII (yes we talk about THE theory /eyeroll) and Tactics, as well as DINO CRISIS (Eryn's top pick!) Ehrgeiz, Metal Gear Solid (duh), Resident Evil: 2, the Soul Reaver series, Ape Escape, Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 1 & 2, Gran Turismo, Twisted Metal, Silent Hill and more Retro nostalgia than you can handle!

Intro/outro music: “Gay Bar Videogame” by The Wildbunch http://freemusicarchive.org/music/The_Wildbunch/Gay_Bar/Gay_Bar_videogame 1:32 Mike’s holiday gift for JS 2:20 Introducing this month’s show 2:51 Concept and episode structure 7:42 Ep 1 Highlights: Mike and Chad 12:36 Ep 2 Highlights: Curt and Rodney 17:22 Ep 3 Highlights: Tracy and Dan 21:24 Ep 4 Highlights: Rob and Greg 25:04 Ep 5 Highlights: John, Bret and Shane 27:15 Mike’s quick hits for Eps 6-8 30:42 Ep 9 Highlights: Joe and Mark 36:40 Debating how much producers were egging on protagonists 40:13 Segueing into worldview and common themes 42:37 JS makes comparison b/w views of ‘extreme preppers’ and ‘conspiracy culture’ 43:24 Returning to distinction b/w ‘normal’ disaster prep and ‘doomsday prepper’ identity 45:03 Other common themes – distrust of outsiders/foreigners and incoherence of scenarios 46:45 JS thinks there’s grain of truth to ‘economic collapse’ scenarios and we debate a bit about Venezuela [Go see website for coda from Mike on his argument] 48:04 Mike thought ridiculous ‘Red Dawn’ scenario was actually one of the more plausible 49:42 Mike was irritated by show’s pandering – esp. given that it was on National Geographic’s channel 50:42 Segueing into motivation behind ‘doomsday prepper’ worldview – larger-than-life performance of trad gender roles 52:26 These people are loaded with $$$ – which made Mike very unsympathetic 53:44 JS thinks that this is rooted in a ‘risk-averse’ psychology coupled with too much money 55:08 Beginning our discussion of this month’s article 56:53 JS agrees with main thrust of argument, but disagrees with some specifics – thinks that perhaps all cultural qualities are not necessarily as gendered as author describes 57:59 Mike’s defense of article’s argument and JS’s refinement of his counter-argument 59:21 JS thinks that prepper worldview is more rooted in rise of globalized economy, but Mike is skeptical 1:01:20 Mike thought article’s analysis of prepping as expression of traditional fatherly authority was interesting 1:02:14 JS picks up on earlier thread about centrality of self-reliance in prepper worldview and we discuss whether self-reliance and dependence are gendered 1:04:12 JS critiques sub-argument about female preppers being ‘hysterical’ based on some counter-examples from the episodes we watched 1:05:55 Article mentions examples of questionable authenticity and we interpret what that means for show’s authenticity overall 1:08:54 Ending on show’s appeal – Is there something sincere or is it entirely based in irony? 1:12:28 JS patiently listens while Mike rants for a while 1:13:39 JS announces next month’s episode 1:14:30 Usual stuff: email, rate/review, and don’t forget to subscribe just because Mike forgot to mention it!

Rich and Dan are still spreading holiday cheer as they preview the Bears’ regular-season finale against the Vikings. They assess the NFC playoff landscape (3:36), then Rich wonders why more people aren’t talking about Vikings safety Harrison Smith’s illegal hit on quarterback Mitch Trubisky (8:23), especially considering the Bears might have to play them twice in six days. The guys discuss how Bears coach Matt Nagy make adjustments Sunday, knowing the strong likelihood of a playoff rematch against the Vikings (20:01). Segueing to That’s Just Stupid, they lambaste first-year Lions coach Matt Patricia’s Grinch-like persona while Dan forgives Rich’s occasional tardiness (27:48). Finally, they detail Dan’s three keys to beating Minnesota (38:19), try to plan Dan’s shirtless outdoor appearance and crown a Prince as the 2018 Bears Media Good Guy (47:43).

Intro/outro music: “Gay Bar Videogame” by The Wildbunch http://freemusicarchive.org/music/The_Wildbunch/Gay_Bar/Gay_Bar_videogame 1:14 Giving our podcast a paternity test 1:53 Introducing this month’s show 2:38 The episodes we covered 4:36 The “very, very high” concept and structure 7:40 Asking JS about his ‘Maury Memories’ 8:42 How JS’s recent experience differed from his recollection 10:05 JS didn’t enjoy himself the second time around 10:41 Mike’s impressions 12:37 Comparing this to Diners in terms of repetition 13:30 Does this have a narrative? Opinions differ 14:24 How show’s tone evolved over time 15:39 Comparing tone to Springer 17:11 What is and isn’t authentic 18:11 The ‘Double DNA test’ 19:30 Correlation b/w authenticity and discomfort 20:10 Coming back to the worldview 22:45 Discussing the show’s longevity 25:47 Segueing into role of polygraphs and paternity tests – ‘moment of truth’ 27:11 Reliability (or lack thereof) of polygraph tests – in contrast to presentation on the show 29:35 People don’t want to hear uncertainty and probability – they want ‘The Truth’ 30:10 Mike goes on digression about the fetishization of DNA in modern American culture 33:02 Paternity DNA tests are not ‘family relationship’ tests 34:23 JS pushes back a little, mentions that nature as well as nurture can be an influence 35:20 JS found ‘paternity’ segments easier to stomach given their actual science 36:11 Mike agrees a little, but stands by the overall critique 38:52 Introducing this month’s thesis 39:58 Origin and evolution of ‘talk show’ from social issues to ‘trash TV’ 41:10 Talk show as meeting b/w middle class values and lower class emotionalism 42:04 Host as the stand-in for the white middle class 43:20 Applying this analysis to Maury and larger ‘therapeutic’ scaffolding of ‘show experts’ 44:52 JS thought the ‘carnival’ comparison was compelling 46:02 Mike mentions the audience demographics, theorizes that show functions as social distancing 48:00 The process for recruiting participants, how this gives producers ability to shape the narrative 48:47 How production crew manipulates audience and guests to respond in predetermined ways 51:40 JS brings us back to our success/failure dichotomy and Diners comparison 53:51 Mike enjoyed the show, even though he knew it was horribly unethical 54:32 JS thinks parenthood made him more vulnerable and negatively affected by this show 56:16 Mike’s weak justification – they all signed up for this 57:08 Updates to availability for shows from previous episodes and upcoming episode announcements 1:00:27 The usual: email, rate/review, and subscribe

Intro/outro music: “Gay Bar Videogame” by The Wildbunch http://freemusicarchive.org/music/The_Wildbunch/Gay_Bar/Gay_Bar_videogame 2:38 Introducing this month’s show 4:18 Concept and structure 6:30 JS loved ‘slo-mo’ rendition of Seagal’s ‘hyper-vision’ 8:04 Mike didn’t catch more serious cases in later episodes, which coloured his views 9:02 Seagal’s background as martial artist and action movie star 10:14 Seagal’s long history of allegations regarding physical and sexual assault (and Putin fanboy-ism) 11:45 Taking a Google Image break to laugh at his recent photos 13:00 His ridiculous Southern ‘accent’ and further clarification on his ‘credentials’ 14:35 Segueing towards our prior experience with COPS (which this shamelessly rips off) 16:00 Comparison with other police-themed TV shows 17:22 Subgenre’s curated nature – JS surprised to see fairly severe crimes in this one 19:15 Show’s Hobbesian and authoritarian law-and-order worldview 20:42 JS mentions instances that go against the grain and show some ‘community policing’ 23:20 Why Mike wasn’t buying ‘softer’ human-interest segments 24:38 How Seagal’s segments give this a different spin with an implied advocacy of ‘vigilante’ self-defense 26:35 Elephant in the room – treatment of race 28:11 Contradictory views on carrying guns (often according to race of person carrying it) 29:01 Many crimes (particularly in first half that Mike saw) didn’t seem to matter all that much 30:30 Demographics of criminal suspects 31:50 Mike discusses police response to parking lot fight 33:17 Discussing choice b/w force and diplomacy 35:01 Seagal is not calling the shots – in case it wasn’t clear 35:48 The question of authenticity – how presence of camera affects actions of participants 36:49 Propagandistic quality associated with this subgenre 38:25 Segueing to this month’s article 39:07 JS thought article’s emphasis on police’s ‘lack of control’ was interesting 40:09 Mike thought this show stressed that aspect even more with ‘vigilante’ self-defense message 40:52 Article’s treatment of Foucault and spectacle 42:16 Article even mentions 80’s action and how popular fiction dovetails with ‘law-and-order’ message 43:15 Why does this narrative persist even as violent crime levels have fallen over past 20 years? 45:12 JS highlights role of media narratives in stoking fears 46:14 Appeal of crime fiction narratives in modern Western culture – gives world a sense of agency 47:35 ‘Comfort’ of ‘law-and-order’ scapegoating – readily identifiable source of disorder and easy remedy 48:38 Show also taps into popularity of ‘vigilante’ narrative in American society 49:55 Is there a genuine appeal to Steven Seagal outside the unintentional comedy? 50:50 Seagal’s persona and how it relates to traditional ideas of masculinity 52:47 Our final thoughts and recommendations 53:19 Vote in our listener’s choice poll 55:21 Announcing our next episode 57:04 Usual stuff: email, rate/review, and subscribe

Ben and Law talk about Oil Benet leaving Roex, Sean Michaelson on Ninja Warrior, 2QS coming back to blading, Ben skating Oysi frames and more Eugen!

Intro/outro music: “Gay Bar Videogame” by The Wildbunch http://freemusicarchive.org/music/The_Wildbunch/Gay_Bar/Gay_Bar_videogame 1:17 Apologies for the delay on the last episode 1:56 Introducing this month’s show (it’s on Netflix) 2:49 Does JS have a soft spot for this sub-genre? 4:03 Our personal feelings on the show 4:45 Show concept 7:37 Jamie Davis, the owner 9:52 The main employees 12:01 The ‘bit players’ and Jamie’s son, Brandon 15:27 Short snippets with the truck drivers 16:28 Two modes: Crash sites and workplace politics 17:18 Mike thought relationship aspect of show was weak 19:08 JS had different expectations, didn’t mind focus on work/business 19:56 JS’s theory as to why show didn’t delve into personal lives 21:53 Authenticity – seemed to be dichotomy b/w crash scenes and ‘office’ scenes 24:08 Mike wasn’t convinced by two specific subplots (rivalry and Kevin’s outburst) 25:33 JS agrees that rivalry was exaggerated, but disagrees on Kevin’s outburst 28:56 Are these outbursts associated with blue-collar work or is Mike very cautious in his disposition? 30:18 Show hit predictable narrative ‘beats’ of typical ‘blue-collar’ reality show 33:17 Segueing into the article for this month 34:45 Concept of ‘retributive man’; recasting working-class identity as individualistic masculinity 36:52 Praising working-class men in abstract sense, but doesn’t challenge socioeconomic hierarchy 38:00 JS thinks there is a certain ‘blue-collar mentality’ that dovetails with ‘blue-collar TV’ worldview 39:06 Jamie as ideal of both blue-collar worker and scrappy entrepreneur 40:21 Jamie’s broader appeal is central to his role as chief protagonist 41:44 Mike was disappointed in how show dealt with the broader emotional impacts of this type of work 44:00 Brandon’s earrings: Subversion of traditional masculinity or evolution of it? 46:06 Blue-collar men and cultural conservatism 47:11 Show’s emphasis on stoicism 49:00 Is ‘retributive man’ ideal more closely linked to blue-collar men in post-industrial society? 50:31 Getting even more meta – podcast affected Mike’s viewing of show 51:06 North America and ‘car culture’ 54:22 How highway system relates to ‘heroic positioning’ of show’s narrative 55:26 Mike was struck by the visceral and spectacular nature of crash footage 56:45 Show’s nostalgic appeal reminded Mike of Dual Survival 58:17 Comparing/contrasting to Dirty Jobs 1:02:14 Jamie as modern version of Jeffersonian ‘yeoman farmer’ 1:03:20 Linkage b/w decline of trad masculinity and rise of service economy 1:04:50 Role of the narrator 1:08:46 Circling back to our personal reactions 1:09:38 Mike didn’t find it offensive exactly, but brought some Trump-shaped baggage 1:11:55 Mike’s own worldview about work is opposite of this show 1:12:43 JS thinks there is different sort of pride associated with physical labor 1:14:39 Introducing the next couple shows 1:16:45 Usual announcements: email, rate/review, and subscribe

It's far more interesting to talk about a loss than it is to chat about wins for Bayern Munich, so the pair treat this (relatively) short podcast as such. First up is the standard HSV butt-kicking that FCB have handed down over the last couple of seasons: Is this the year the clock actually stops in Hamburg? Is losing them to 2. Bundesliga a great loss? While Thomas Mueller had a fantastic match, is Hamburg the correct team for him to be judged on? Next the duo travel to the seething crowds in Istanbul, but sadly, with Bayern being up 5:0 in the first leg, the result was already a foregone conclusion. But, wait! The star of the show was a cat! (And no, to all who asked, it was not Susie's cat.) The loss to Leipzig brings up plenty of questions from Jupp Heynckes' selection, to what in the world was going on with Sebastian Rudy, but the one thing that was definitely agreed on by both Maurice and Susie was that Bayern wholly deserved to take a loss here. Of course this comes from a place of extreme privilege noting that Bayern will be holding the Meisterschale very soon. Segueing nicely from there, the pair ask some legitimate questions about Joachim Loew's German National team selection, like: Why was Rudy called up? There's the usual banter over “who would you rather?” as the DFB now will truly start to take some shape with the side they'll bring to Russia. Thank you, as always, for listening in! We'll rejoin you for a round-up after the friendlies with the hope that no one gets hurt before getting back into the heart of the season. Mia San Mia!

Intro/outro music: “Gay Bar Videogame” by The Wildbunch http://freemusicarchive.org/music/The_Wildbunch/Gay_Bar/Gay_Bar_videogame 1:55 Introducing this month’s show 3:24 Initial thoughts on show’s enjoyment factor 4:23 Why Mike picked this show 4:52 Our background with ‘scared straight’ shows 7:15 Concept and structure 9:24 JS runs down the recap 10:37 Our main takeaway 11:26 JS’s brief tangent on Star Trek: TNG 12:30 Sheriff Joe Arpaio and his (infamous) record 15:27 Sheriff Joe’s lack of presence in the show 16:31 JS breaks down difference b/w jails and prisons 18:01 The dumb parade and the yokels that show up at it 18:57 Sgt. Irby – institutional center of the show 20:12 Show didn’t do good job differentiating b/w the ‘inmates’ 21:23 Also features American inmates in short, snippet interviews 22:23 Narrator failed UK version of SAT Analogy section 23:35 Cultural differences b/w UK/US – ‘Tent City’ as ‘Wild West’ justice 25:14 The stagecraft involved in ‘scared straight’ experience 28:44 Show emphasizes controlling, totalizing nature of prison regime but also expects us to accept these events as authentic and spontaneous 29:23 Mike struck by how much show emphasized common stereotypes about prison life 31:25 Mission statement of show – is it accurate? (A: No.) 31:51 Link b/w harsh prisons and recividism 33:00 Comparing US prison practices to Norway 34:10 History of ‘Scared Straight’ and how it doesn’t work 35:45 Cultural questions of punishment vs. rehabilitation 37:02 Is support for harsh punishment linked to belief in ‘American Dream’? 38:58 A final coda – ‘Bloody Code’ in UK failed at deterrence 39:32 Joe’s record in detail (lots of lawsuits/scandals) 41:10 Segueing into the article 42:27 Article’s five-part definition of ‘gonzo rhetoric’ 44:36 Joe Arpaio as symptom of broader media and political practices 45:45 Despite lack of evidence, ‘gonzo rhetoric’ effective b/c it is simple, swims with broader cultural tide 47:40 Our ‘bonus’ article 48:16 Returning to appeal of harsh punitive practices – simple solution to complex problem 49:26 Idea of ‘willful nostalgia’ in penal practice – comparing ‘Tent City’ to ‘Make America Great Again’ 50:32 Brief aside on Sheriff Joe’s botched ‘Jail Cam’ 50:58 Criminal justice reality TV as commodity/spectacle 53:52 Mike recaps fleeting instances where show stops being propaganda and actually gets real 55:01 How show fits into the larger ‘scared straight’ genre 55:40 JS’s theory of show’s specific appeal to UK audience 56:05 Returning to our enjoyment (or, in Mike’s case, lack thereof) 57:41 Mike would have liked this more if it was shot like Toddlers & Tiaras 58:08 This would’ve been better if it was shorter, less repetitive 1:00:14 Don’t vote for Joe Arpaio 1:00:24 Introducing show and article for next month’s episode 1:01:54 Usual announcements: email, rate/review, and subscribe

For Laura Love of GroundFloor Media, transforming a business starts with strategic communication. She likes to think of her and her team as storytellers, and how they tell a company or an organization’s story depends on the audiences they want to reach and the tools that they have in their arsenal.  They can tell that story through video, by talking to the media, or by putting that CEO on a panel and having them tell the rest of the world what they do. The point is to make the impact and create brand awareness for the company. On the flip side of that, a big part of their agency is focused on crisis and issues management, which means keeping a company out of the news, or minimizing the impact of something that could be perceived as something negative that they have to face. Laura shares her thoughts on how they handle everything, from media relations to thought leadership to crisis and issues management. Listen to the podcast: Laura Love GroundFloor Media Founder, Synthesizing Strategic Communications, Digital & Social Media Strategy, Crisis Communication & Reputation Management We’re incredibly fortunate. We have Laura Love who’s a guest on the podcast. She is the Founder of (https://meetatct.com/) . Laura, welcome to the podcast. Thank you for having me. Tell us a little bit about your business and who you serve. GroundFloor Media is a strategic communications company that I started sixteen years ago in my basement in Boulder, Colorado. On that side of the agency, we handle everything from media relations to thought leadership to crisis and issues management. Our clients range from everyone from Children’s Hospital of Colorado to Noble Energy to Tennyson Center for Children. Our sister agency is an agency that we started about a year and a half ago, and the name of that agency is CenterTable. That’s the digital arm of what we do on the communications side. I’m familiar little bit with some of the entities that you described. We have some level of common ground. Both of us have spent a little time back in Tennessee. You at Vandy and me as a wannabe Vandy yet at the time. Segueing a little bit and looking about what you do within your agency, and folks get confused when they hear about what you do. When you’re working with a client, what types of things do you bring to the table for your client that moves their needle or causes a transformation for their business? It’s funny that I’ve been doing this for a long time now and my parents still don’t know what I do. What we like to say is that we’re storytellers. How we tell a company or an organization’s story depends on the audiences they want to reach and the tools that they have in their arsenal. If a company comes to us, they have a challenge. They want to launch a new product. We can tell that story through video; we can tell it by talking to the media, we can tell it by putting that CEO on a panel and having them tell the rest of the world what they do. The tools that we have to help shape that story and share it have grown since even I started the agency sixteen years ago. The point is to make the impact and create brand awareness for our company. On the flip side of that, a big part of our agency is focused on crisis and issues management. Sometimes, it’s keeping a company out of the news, or minimizing the impact of something that could be perceived as something negative that they have to face. I think about a typical business owner, and most business owners are looking for more clients, more revenue. What’s the most common question, desire or misunderstanding that you hear from a new customer to your firm? Our favorite one used to be, “How soon can you get us on Oprah?” That’s usually when we exit stage left. The misconception is that public relations equal sales and that isn’t always the case. It certainly can help,...

Intro/outro music: “Gay Bar Videogame” by The Wildbunch http://freemusicarchive.org/music/The_Wildbunch/Gay_Bar/Gay_Bar_videogame 1:15 One last ‘War on Christmas’ joke 1:30 Introducing this month’s episode 2:39 Mike’s middle-school memories, show’s cultural influence 4:01 JS’s first impressions (he had no experience) 5:12 Quality of recordings we watched on YouTube 5:54 Concept and structure of show 7:47 Main strategy of show – setting up incompatible couples 8:45 The big draw – animations and graphics 11:36 Structure of televised show vis-à-vis our YouTube version 13:29 Show’s humor and its reliance on various stereotypes 15:25 Stereotypes often shorn of context – heavy amount of editing 16:36 ‘Damned if they do, damned if they don’t’ 18:25 Show’s usage of racial/ethnic stereotypes – might get someone fired today 19:35 JS thought animations were too heavy-handed and intrusive 21:00 Mike enjoyed them, but agrees some humor was problematic and offensive 22:22 We liked humor more when it made fun of what they did rather than who they were 24:55 Talking about show’s heteronormativity 25:45 Segueing into the article we read 26:47 Quick summary of article’s thesis 28:02 Mike thought it really honed in on relationship b/w stereotypes and production humor 29:08 Show narrows expectations to median of standard bell curve 30:40 JS reads two lines from article on consumerism 33:39 JS thought humor was too obvious/easy to be funny; Mike offers (qualified) defense as channel for genuine anxieties 35:32 Delving into specific dates, how they depart/conform to the mold 37:56 JS’s favorite segment – OK with show making fun of terrible people 39:54 Selection of contestants and show’s racial diversity 41:45 One time where ‘racial’ humor kind of worked – Asian who thought she was ‘hood’ 42:42 Appeal of show, why it was successful 44:07 Mike thought ‘lowest common denominator’ aspect was a strength 45:00 Comparing humor of show to Bridezillas 48:10 How our different expectations shaped our enjoyment 48:52 Does JS gravitate more towards celebrating success as opposed to relishing failure? 51:03 Mike is prob opposite – more forgiving of trashy, mean-spirited humiliation fests 52:35 Introducing next month’s episode 53:52 Announcements: email, rate/review, and subscribe

Join The Higherside Chats podcast, with host Greg Carlwood as he and returning guest, Marty Leeds, talk Pizzagate, symbolism and secret societies. While we may differ on our perspective of the reality that surrounds us, there is one thing we know for certain: there is a sophisticated code baked right in. Today's guest, Marty Leeds helps us to decipher what this intricate web of encoded message may mean in our grand reality and understanding of self. 2:29 Marty begins by discussing the crazy landscape we are navigating, otherwise known as current events. While we find ourselves in the heart of the historic Pizzagate investigation, researchers have caught themselves in the cross hairs of the "fake news" agenda. Marty reveals his reasons for leaving prominent social media sites, such as Facebook, and how the witch hunt has affected researchers far and wide. 7:20 Greg and Marty dive deeper into the Pizzagate pool, by discussing the some of the more disturbing aspects discovered. As Marty explains, the lewd and lascivious online behavior of many people connected to this scandal should be enough to open a criminal investigation. Couple this with the crackdown on Pizzagate researchers, the obvious subculture built around this abuse, and the government's involvement through programs such as Project Monarch, the effects are frightening.   17:03 Marty addresses the rumors of a possible Pizzagate investigation under the new Trump administration. He also examines the corrupted political power structure put into place by Washington elites, and whether Trump can deliver on is promise to "drain the swamp" or if instead, he can be implicated in some dark conspiracies himself. 24:42 With a background in the occult and symbolism, Marty is the ideal guest to divulge the details and patterns in Pizzagate. Marty also analyzes the infamous John Podesta photo, and explains the importance behind the fish and number fourteen on his palms. 29:20 Segueing from Pizzagate to his latest book, "Pi & The English Alphabet: Vol. 3", Greg discusses the foundation of Marty's work: Gematria and the English alphabet. He also describes it's significance to the Podesta photo, the number 322 and the Skull & Bones logo. 37:19 Continuing with their conversation about the Skull & Bones logo, Marty details the importance of the use of the femur bone, it's connection to astro-theology and Sagittarius. Marty also reveals the Masonic connection to the apron, the historic use of it throughout several cultures and it's symbolism. 46:20 From the paradigm of divine creation seen in examples such as the Fibonacci code and the Golden Ratio, to the nefarious corruption and archon control we actively attempt to subvert, the horizon seems tough to navigate. Marty walks through his take on the the extreme contrasts peppered throughout our reality. Subscribe to the plus show to hear the extended episode, including: - the Preamble to the Constitution and the deep seeded symbolism and numerology within it - cosmological constants, and mathematics as the language of The Creator - the encoding of Pi to display universal truths about the nature of being - the septinary system of the English language - the value and use of mathematics in understanding the extreme balance of good and evil in nature - the perversion of powerful esoteric knowledge and symbols by the elite - the fingerprints of Masonry in architecture of our universe, and how this relates to the Flat Earth Theory - the Bible as a mathematical document - the number 432 being key to cosmological constants A few valuable resources from the episode: Truthstream Media's video "This is How They Are Shutting Down the Alternative Media Online": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFaroi2fMPg New York Times' article addressing their lack of journalistic integrity post-election: https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/13/us/elections/to-our-readers-from-the-publisher-and-execut...

Join The Higherside Chats podcast as host Greg Carlwood talks the education conspiracy of common core and 9/11 with returning guest, Joseph Farrell. The Earth has a rich history of control by vast interlocking networks of think tanks, multinational corporations, secret societies, esoteric orders, and hidden financiers all aimed at crafting society to their will and molding modern man as they see fit. And while the "conspiratorial baton" may have changed hands many times throughout history, guest Joseph Farrell has been tracking this over the course of several years and rejoins THC to help us better understand the world stage today. 2:36 To start things off, Greg begins by discussing Farrell's latest work, "Rotten to the Common Core". With the education and schooling slice of the conspiracy pie affecting most of the populous, they dive deeper into the weaponizing of compulsory schooling and the tightening of the screws with the newest edition of the common core curriculum. 5:50 Early on in his book, Farrell critiques our focus on the assessment process rather than the content or standards themselves. Listen as Greg and Joseph elaborate on this process, why it's so concerning and what it does exactly, as well as it's subsequent consequences on students, parents and the teaching profession as a whole. 15:17 Shifting focus from the laundry list of problems with common core, Greg and Joseph identify some of the key players and money working to institutionalize America's youth. With infamous charities such as the Gates Foundation working under the guise of philanthropy, Greg and Joseph explore the red flags pointing to a deeper agenda. 25:45 Suffering from a taste of their own medicine and finding themselves being dumbed down along with the rest of the American society, the elite now find themselves reusing the same old playbook. Greg and Farrell discuss how the elite are fresh out of ideas, with proven weaknesses such as a lack of creativity and critical thinking, and the inability to quickly pivot and remain nimble in this constantly changing climate.   36:00 With an over medicated generation of children being subdued to drone-like states, Greg and Joseph turn their attention towards this concerning epidemic. Connecting the dots between the pharmaceutical initiative, they discuss the 1950's CIA mind control projects, such as Project Artichoke, MK Ultra and the front known as The Society for the Investigation of Human Ecology. 42:39 To dig a little deeper, Greg and Joseph discuss the fairly complex elements where we see the larger trans-humanist agenda, as well as the tie in of ancient esoteric doctrine playing a huge role in the changes being made through the schooling system. 55:11 Before moving onto Farrell's other book released this year, Greg and Joseph close out on the education topic by examining where teachers, parents, and society goes from here. 1:01:20 Segueing into Farrell's book "Hidden Finance and Rogue Networks and Secret Sorcery", Joseph provides an overview into the newest and most interesting revelations his research has produced, because juxtapose to his traditional approach to understanding the events of 9/11, Farrell offers new and different conclusions. 1:08:40 Greg and Joseph continue to elaborate on the breakdown and roles of the three-levels, the patsy, the planners, and hidden fascist international group involved in the 9/11 events. 1:21:00 After thoroughly examining roles of these levels, Greg and Joseph turn their attention towards the interaction among them. With the marriage being the creation of Operation Paperclip and the forming of the Bilderberg group and the apparent divorce being the coup within the 9/11 attacks, they continue by discussing the infighting and it's aftermath. 1:35:42 We often see occult or ritualistic elements to these events caused by the shadowy elite and the events of 9/11 are no different. Unfortunately at times,

Join Greg Carlwood of The Higherside Chats podcast as he welcomes back Mark Devlin, author of the massive all encompassing bible on the crossroads of conspiracy and pop culture, his excellent work, Musical Truth. With several unexplored rabbitholes in this realm left over from his first appearance, Mark returns to pick up where he left off. It's no secret that most major industries that play a role in society serve some purpose for the string pullers: The energy realm carefully keeps us on the resources that turn a profit, the education system is artfully crafted to keep most people at a level of mediocrity, and the entertainment world keeps us thoroughly distracted from reclaiming our own reality. These are simply the tip of the ice berg, and many of these slices can be broken down even further. But as we've discovered, few get quite as weird and deep as the realm of Hollywood and the music industry. With topics ranging from sacrifice and sorcery, to psychedelics and pys-ops, It's a true cornucopia of conspiracy goodness ripe for the plundering. 1:50 Last time Greg and Mark talked about how the music industry is used for control of both the artists and the audience. Listen as Mark expands on the origins of this manipulation and who the characters are behind it and whether the music industry is as organic as presented, or if it is a military intelligence think-tank operation from the ground up. Listen as Mark describes how powerful influencers such as theTavistock Institute, Cambridge University, and Harvard, just to name a few, seem to have a stranglehold on all elements of culture and employ the weapons of culture creation. Mark also helps to clarify the role of the lifetime actor by chronicling examples such as Barack Obama, Bono, Bob Geldof. 8:15 Segueing from the false savior motif to continue with the theory of lifetime actors, Greg and Mark press deeper into the bloodlines of the entertainment elite, from Brad Pitt's relation to Barack Obama, all the way to Madonna, Britney Spears and Hillary Clinton. Listen as Mark explains the arrangements and marriages made between these prominent lifetime actors and how they are used to further the elite's agenda. 13:30 By following the genealogy of some of these elite lifetime actors, we begin to see that many have ties to the Jewish heritage. Mark details what are known as crypto-Jews, or those whose public personas have disguised their Jewish heritage by anglicizing their names such as the infamous Bob Marley. 16:15 Disney may not really be the happiest place on Earth. Listen as Greg and Mark examine the deeply Satanic roots of Disney' s nefarious machine. Armed with examples such as Britney Spears and Miley Cyrus, Mark walks us through the typical tactics used by Disney like disarming parents and eventually evolving into something much more sinister. Another interesting example involving this clear switch in personas can be seen in the Beatles in 1966 when a poignant transformation begins. Listen as Mark widens our understanding of the Beatles' impact by explaining their crucial role in social engineering during the turbulent times of the sixties. 26:00 Listen as Mark explains how many cultural icons of the hallucinogenic and psychedelic movement of the sixties such as Terence McKenna and Dr. Timothy Leary, were also controlled assets of the state with links to military intelligence, specifically the CIA. Tied into the world of military intelligence is the dark occult, Satanism and Luciferianism rituals and the secrets they keep about the nature of reality, how to manipulate energy and how the human psyche works. 30:42 Greg and Mark revisit the work of Dave McGowan and examine Jim Morrison's father's military ties to the Gulf of Tonkin incident. They also discuss the British musician Cliff Richard, his association to the Kray twins, his father's employment for Thorn EMI, and their involvement in military defense research.

Ryan and Matt "Lizard People" Amberg gush about Hail Caesar and the Coen Brothers before it's on to time spent with Destiny, Doom, and Overwatch. Then it's on to last week's distracting shiny objects like Street Fighter 5's new character, GTA Online's next update, Mirror's Edge Catalyst's launch trailer, No Man's Sky's continued unbelonging, Deus Ex Mankind Divided's divisive trailer, Titanfall 2 details, Ghost Recon Wildlands trickery, Payday 2 and 3 developments, Vivendi's hostility, and the impending Xbox One Two HEY-O!

This week, Peter shares memories of his first film audition. Coming down from Manchester by bus, Pete beat out other kids for the part of “teenage troublemaker” in a Steve Coogan production. He shares fond memories of being on set, attending the launch party and enduring a surprise twist at the premier. Segueing into a discussion of screenwriting, Peter explains the process of “getting notes” on a script and how he’s becoming more comfortable having a “work in progress” as he matures as a writer/actor. It takes a certain confidence to show imperfect work and continue to massage it to completion. To cap off the episode, Paul shares a recent realization: there is no substitute for intimacy. He admits that in his twenties and early thirties, he didn’t need the comfort and consistency of a loving relationship; partly, this was because he had the fraternity of close male friends. But now, at 40, the alternatives to a loving intimacy appear less credible. A strong partnership is surprisingly important to Paul, and material substitutes, such as glitz and glamour, seem unworthy replacements. Peter responds.

Tonight: Full Moon (Aquarius-Leo) of Cultural Influence for the Dedicated Heart… More than perfectly Caroline welcomes two deeply dedicated hearts. Norma Flores-“Toypurina Carac,” California Native Woman, creator of the Move-On Petition, (we encourage all to sign.) and Chairman Valentin Lopez of the Amuh Mutsin Tribal Band. The tale of Junipero Serra goes to the Plutonic roots of colonialism's intrinsic brutality. Pope Francis is disastrously- currently-intending to canonize Serra on September 23rd at 4:15 pm in Washington DC. Because we are friend's of Pope Francis' soul – we are enemies of this project. Let's see the Pope re-considering. (Con-sider “with the stars.”In this case literally, the proposed canonization is to take place on the Autumnal Equinox, sacred day of bringing all Justice into Balance.) Vestiges of colonialism are at the root of all that ails the world. What must we die to- lest we die from? Thank you for signing the petition and supporting sane reverence In Solidarity, Toypurina Here is the link to the petition: Urge Pope Francis to abandon the canonization of Junipero Serra The post Segueing from last week- pt2- the demonic Disneyfication of Junipero Serra appeared first on KPFA.

Army Chief Warrant Officer 3 Corey J. Goodnature, Died June 28, 2005 Serving During Operation Enduring Freedom Defending the Republic with Annie "The Radio Chick" and "Cool" Mike is an ongoing discussion of recent events, issues and the upcoming elections. Special Guest: Evan Sayet - as a standup comic he was quickly spotted by David Letterman. Segueing into writing, he was an integral part of the team that made “The Arsenio Hall Show” and the very first Creative Consultant on the highly respected “Politically Incorrect”. After that Evan wrote and produced the highest rated special in Discovery's The Learning Channel's history (“The 70's: From Bellbottoms to Boogie Shoes”), perfected the book for a musical comedy, wrote a screenplay optioned by Penny Marshall and even tried his hand at game shows – as the original writer of the cult classic “Win Ben Stein's Money.” Evan is the creator, and star of “The Right To Laugh,” which is the longest running conservative comedy show in America. Author of the new book, “The KinderGarden Of Eden: How The Modern Liberal Thinks (And Why He's Convinced That Ignorance Is Bliss) – available here at Evan's store, and at Amazon It's a battle of Conservative values and principles in defense of our Republic!

This show is dedicated to NYPD Police Officer Robert Machete killed in the line-of-duty by an illegal immigrant March 3, 1989 Special Guest: Evan Sayet - as a standup comic he was quickly spotted by David Letterman. Segueing into writing, he was an integral part of the team that made “The Arsenio Hall Show” and the very first Creative Consultant on the highly respected “Politically Incorrect”. After that Evan wrote and produced the highest rated special in Discovery's The Learning Channel's history (“The 70's: From Bellbottoms to Boogie Shoes”), perfected the book for a musical comedy, wrote a screenplay optioned by Penny Marshall and even tried his hand at game shows – as the original writer of the cult classic “Win Ben Stein's Money.” Evan is the creator, and star of “The Right To Laugh,” which is the longest running conservative comedy show in America. Evan is the author of the new book, “The KinderGarden Of Eden: How The Modern Liberal Thinks (And Why He's Convinced That Ignorance Is Bliss) – available here at Evan's store, and at Amazon. You can get the Kindle version right now by clicking here.

THIS WEEK - Good News & More Philly starts the discussion by pointing out a novel argument for removing the phrase, "under God," from the Pledge of Allegiance. The herd discusses this and some other rationales until OG reminds everyone of the best reason of all for removing the phrase. Segueing smoothly from the Pledge of Allegiance to a discussion of Good News clubs, the herd is frustrated that churches are using elementary schools to advertise their programs. Should non-school groups be allowed to advertise in schools? Moving on to more good news, the herd notes that the state of Kentucky has enlisted God into the Kentucky Dept. of Homeland Security. SI enlightens everyone about some of the legal issues involved in both of these matters. Philly digs down deep into the mailbag and pulls out a Dear Chappy letter that she is uniquely qualified to answer. After that discussion winds down, the herd considers a letter that prompts them to consider what documents, if any, a newly-elected atheist should use to take the oath of office. OG shares the latest poll results, then closes with her thoughts about a judicial decision that the state of Florida got right. That really is good news. Opening Music [00:00]: excerpt from "Another Goddamned Draft" Bridge Music [12:56]: excerpt from "One of Many" Bridge and Closing Music [38:18] excerpt from "Jesus Loves Me feat. Satan" Closing Music [1:09:53] excerpt from "As Jazzy as I Get" (All music: copyright 2008 by Rachel Murie except as noted)