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In anticipation of the third part in our series! Yale educator and TV writer/producer, Aaron Tracy, returns to chat with me about surviving the WGA writer's strike, finally teaching the podcast at Yale, and his latest audio thriller on Audible, Nowhere Man, starring Lee Pace and Zosia Mamet. Aaron Tracy also teaches “The Art and Craft of Television Drama” at Yale University, and his TV credits include Law & Order: SVU, Fairly Legal, The Tap, and Sequestered, a serialized thriller that ran two seasons, for which he was Creator and Executive Producer.  He is also a Creator, Director,  and Exec. Producer of scripted audio dramas for iHeartRadio, Audible, and Spotify, with various production partners including: Supreme: The Battle For Roe, his 9-part audio drama starring Eva Longoria (feat. Maya Hawke and William H. Macy); Murder in Bermuda (feat. Mary-Louise Parker); and many others. His most recent is Nowhere Man, a noir political thriller Executive Produced by and starring Lee Pace, with co-stars Zosia Mamet, and Chazz Palminteri. “Set in the mid-1980s, Nowhere Man is a dark, paranoid thriller about temptation and obsession through the prism of a profession most people don't even know exists.” Aaron's debut audio drama, The Coldest Case, a detective thriller starring Aaron Paul, Krysten Ritter, and Alexis Bledel, premiered as the #1 download on Audible in 2021, and has since become the most downloaded show in Audible Plus history. [Discover ⁠The Writer Files Extra⁠: Get 'The Writer Files' Podcast Delivered Straight to Your Inbox at ⁠writerfiles.fm⁠] [If you're a fan of The Writer Files, please ⁠click FOLLOW to automatically see new interviews⁠. And drop us a rating or a review wherever you listen] In this file Aaron Tracy and I discussed: Why he loves the ‘80s period pieces How his directing experience has shaped his writing Why he teaches the narrative podcast the same way he teaches Television Drama The two greatest innovations of the modern TV art form  What aspiring TV writers should be reading And a lot more! Show Notes: ⁠How to Write a Bestselling Audio Drama with Writer/Producer Aaron Tracy: Part One⁠ ⁠Yale University – Aaron Tracy⁠ ⁠Aaron Tracy Audible Page⁠ ⁠Amazon Author Page for William Goldman⁠ ⁠Story by Robert McKee⁠ [Amazon] ⁠Save the Cat by Blake Snyder⁠ [Amazon] ⁠Aaron Tracy on IMdB⁠ ⁠Aaron Tracy on Twitter⁠⁠ ⁠Milena Gonzalez | Writer | Reader | Book Reviewer⁠⁠ ⁠⁠diary_of_a_book_babe on Instagram⁠⁠ ⁠⁠Kelton Reid Instagram⁠ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In anticipation of the third part in our series! Yale educator and TV writer/producer, Aaron Tracy, spoke with me about what it takes to make it as a TV writer, breaking into the audio drama space, producing Audible's most successful original fiction series, and working on the upcoming “Supreme” with Eva Longoria. Aaron Tracy teaches “The Art and Craft of Television Drama” at Yale University, and his TV credits include Law & Order: SVU, Fairly Legal, The Tap, and Sequestered, a serialized thriller that ran two seasons, for which he was Creator and Executive Producer.  He is also the Creator, Head Writer, and Exec. Producer of scripted audio dramas for iHeartRadio, Audible, and Spotify, with various production partners. These include an underdog NBA story with Steve Nash, a legal thriller with James Patterson, a historical romance with Shonda Rhimes, and a courtroom drama with Eva Longoria. His first show to be released, The Coldest Case, a detective thriller starring Aaron Paul, Krysten Ritter, and Alexis Bledel, premiered as the #1 download on Audible in 2021, and has since become the most downloaded show in Audible Plus history. His audio entertainment company, Parallax, is the home for “prestige scripted audio thrillers and thought-provoking unscripted fare.” [Discover ⁠The Writer Files Extra⁠: Get 'The Writer Files' Podcast Delivered Straight to Your Inbox at ⁠writerfiles.fm⁠] [If you're a fan of The Writer Files, please ⁠click FOLLOW to automatically see new interviews⁠. And drop us a rating or a review wherever you listen] In this file Aaron Tracy and I discussed: The two paths available to aspiring TV writers  Why you need to always be pitching ideas How audio dramas harken back to the golden days of radio Landing big stars for "TV shows without the visuals" Working with Rob Reiner How to write for the ear Why the journey is the destination for writers And a lot more! Show Notes: ⁠The Art and Craft of TV Drama with Aaron Tracy: Part Two⁠ ⁠Yale University – Aaron Tracy⁠ ⁠Aaron Tracy Audible Page⁠ ⁠Aaron Tracy on IMdB⁠ ⁠Aaron Tracy on Twitter⁠ Milena Gonzalez | Writer | Reader | Book Reviewer⁠ ⁠diary_of_a_book_babe on Instagram⁠ ⁠Kelton Reid Instagram⁠ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The United States is the only modern nation where nearly half a billion privately owned firearms—most dormant, unseen, and unorganized—form an unspoken fourth layer of power within civil society. Public debate reduces guns to crime, culture wars, or personal safety, but the deeper structural reality is that private firearm ownership disperses consequence and prevents any single actor—local government, shadow authority, or federal power—from assuming uncontested monopoly over civilian life. The Second Amendment was not written for hunting or nostalgia. It was written for parity—citizens maintaining access to contemporary tools comparable to those used by the state they authorize.This fourth layer is defined not by rebellion but by restraint. Despite their scale, America's firearms are not mobilized into vigilantism, organized insurgency, or paramilitary politics. They sit in homes, safes, closets, glove compartments—present but unused. Deterrence operates through uncertainty. The absence of uprisings is not proof the deterrent is fiction; it is evidence that the boundary is understood. Power is negotiated, not assumed.Unlike cartels or militias abroad, American gun ownership is not aligned to a single ideology. It is not a tribal uniform. It cuts across geography, race, and politics. Recent trends—LGBTQ groups training, Black gun clubs expanding, feminist self-defense movements growing—have not terrified the traditional 2A crowd. Paradoxically, the reaction has been: welcome. Because the principle is not cultural; it is constitutional. The fear is not who owns the guns. The fear is who believes only they should.Critics claim that if these guns mattered, they would have already been used. But deterrents are measured by the events that do not happen. Nuclear arsenals prove themselves through silence. Privately held arms shape governance not through force but through the impossibility of unilateralism. The Fourth Layer has no leader, no roster, and no headquarters. It is self-policed by consequence: misuse a firearm and the state itself removes you from the equation.In a century defined by institutional mistrust, rapid social revision, and attempts to frame America as pure “democracy” rather than a constitutional republic of negotiated powers, the presence of privately held parity matters. It does not guarantee virtue. It guarantees consent must be earned, not presumed.These firearms are not mythology and not menace. They are sequestered carbon—stored energy, dormant pressure, waiting not for ignition but for justification. They remain the silent ballast of a system that expects debate before decree. Not a threat. Not a promise. A boundary.

This episode examines the United States as the only modern nation where privately owned firearms—hundreds of millions of them—form a silent, decentralized balance against the three visible layers of power: local government, shadow networks, and federal authority. We are told the Second Amendment is about hunting, recreation, nostalgia, and home defense, but those explanations describe utility, not purpose. The American model disperses power by design, not tradition. The firearm is not symbolic here—it is structural.Much of this structure is invisible precisely because it functions without activation. A half billion firearms are not mobilized against police precincts, not deployed against neighborhood crime syndicates, not marshaled into rebellion against federal agencies. They remain dormant by choice, not by accident. The absence of widespread misuse is not evidence of irrelevance; it is the evidence deterrence leaves behind. Firearms in America operate like stored energy—sequestered carbon in social form—held back by consent, trust, and the expectation of constitutional negotiation.What complicates the simplified narrative is that private firearm ownership does not align with a single culture, ideology, or grievance. The modern landscape includes conservative hunters, urban first-time buyers, LGBTQ+ self-defense groups, Black gun clubs, immigrant business owners, feminist training circles, and veterans who prefer not to rely entirely on institutions. Rather than react with suspicion, many gun-rights advocates have responded with pragmatism: if the right belongs to all, then its legitimacy is strengthened when all claim it. The conflict is not over who holds firearms—it is over who seeks the authority to decide others may not.Private firearm ownership creates a fourth layer of power—quiet, unorganized, unsupervised, and largely uninterested in confrontation. There is no roster. No activation code. No central ideology. The boundary it creates is not aggressive; it is conditional. It demands that change—cultural, political, legal—move through process rather than proclamation. Not every proposed reform is tyranny. Not every amendment is sabotage. But when cultural mandates bypass the mechanisms the Constitution requires, the existence of parity matters—not as a threat, but as a reminder.Critics argue that if these firearms mattered, they would have been used. Yet the strongest deterrents in human history—from nuclear stockpiles to strategic reserves—prove themselves through silence. This fourth layer is not a militia and not an insurgency; it is the retained possibility that legitimacy requires consent, and consent requires dialogue. It does not guarantee wisdom or stability. It guarantees negotiation before acceleration.In this episode, we explore how this dormant architecture shapes trust, policy, civic patience, and the boundaries between governance and governed. We ask how a right exercised mostly in private still influences every public decision made about force, safety, and the social contract. And we consider why, in a landscape of polarization, the paradox holds: weapons most powerful in use may be most valuable unused.

On the latest episode of Minor Issues, Mark Thornton argues that “black swans” aren't root causes but announcement effects of imbalances created by the Fed's cheap-credit booms. He highlights Ball State economist James McLure's idea of sequestered capital—R&D, financial innovations, and opaque private assets shielded from public information—which proliferate under artificially low rates. From the Dutch Tulip Bubble and 1929 investment trusts to today's candidates—hedge-fund private deals, AI data centers, commercial real estate, and crypto—the pattern is the same: policy-driven credit expansion seeds the very “unknowns” that later trigger crises. The fix isn't more regulation; it's removing the fuel line of easy money.See also "Sequestered Capital: An Overlooked Lacuna in the Capital Structure” by James McClure: https://mises.org/MI_137_AThe Mises Institute is giving away 100,000 copies of Hayek for the 21st Century. Get your free copy at https://mises.org/IssuesFreeBe sure to follow Minor Issues at https://Mises.org/MinorIssues

The US is threatening to slap a 200% tariff on pharmaceuticals and a 50% tariff on copper; we break down what this could mean for Australia's economy. Plus, science has finally cracked the code on what makes someone cool. And in headlines today Sequestered jurors in the Erin Patterson trial were in the same hotel as a police informant and the prosecution team; Another childcare chain have promised to install CCTV cameras after two if its staff were accused of sexually abusing children; Pope Leo has told Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky that the Vatican could host Ukraine/Russia peace talks; Elon Musk's AI chatbot Grok has been posting anti Semitic content and praised Adolf Hitler THE END BITSSupport independent women's media Check out The Quicky Instagram here GET IN TOUCHShare your story, feedback, or dilemma! Send us a voice note or email us at thequicky@mamamia.com.au CREDITS Hosts: Taylah Strano & Claire Murphy Guests: Dr Patricia Ranald, Honorary Research Associate at The University Of Sydney & Convenor of The Australian Fair Trade And Investment NetworkAudio Producer: Lu Hill Become a Mamamia subscriber: https://www.mamamia.com.au/subscribeSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

It's been dramatized in countless movies and TV shows, like Law and Order or 12 Angry Men, but you may have wondered if the Hollywood portrayals match up with the reality of jury duty. This year, CityNews Reporter, Nick Westoll, got to find out first hand when he was picked to serve on a jury in a criminal case. From the jury selection process, to the restrictions and being sequestered, to the emotional toll of deciding the fate of an accused, host Cormac Mac Sweeney speaks with Nick about the challenging journey of being a juror in Canada.You can read Nick's first hand account here: https://toronto.citynews.ca/2025/07/03/what-is-ontario-jury-duty-like/ We love feedback at The Big Story, as well as suggestions for future episodes. You can find us:Through email at hello@thebigstorypodcast.ca Or @thebigstoryfpn on Twitter

Listen to this week's episode of the Dateline: True Crime Weekly podcast with Andrea Canning. In Massachusetts, opening statements in the second trial of the woman accused of running over her police officer boyfriend. In Arizona, a jury returns a verdict at Lori Vallow Daybell's latest trial. Harvey Weinstein faces a new accuser, and Scott Peterson's defense team says it has new witnesses and new evidence to prove his innocence. Plus, a juror turned podcaster.Find out more about the cases each week here: www.datelinetruecrimeweekly.comListen to Keith's podcast, Mommy Doomsday, about the Lori Vallow Daybell story here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/mommy-doomsday/id1540849480Link for "Sequestered" here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/sequestered-podcast/id1792642561

Listen to this week's episode of the Dateline: True Crime Weekly podcast with Andrea Canning. In Massachusetts, opening statements in the second trial of the woman accused of running over her police officer boyfriend. In Arizona, a jury returns a verdict at Lori Vallow Daybell's latest trial. Harvey Weinstein faces a new accuser, and Scott Peterson's defense team says it has new witnesses and new evidence to prove his innocence. Plus, a juror turned podcaster. Find out more about the cases each week here: www.datelinetruecrimeweekly.com.Listen to Keith's podcast, Mommy Doomsday, about the Lori Vallow Daybell story here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/mommy-doomsday/id1540849480. Link for "Sequestered" here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/sequestered-podcast/id1792642561.

Imagine being a juror on a high-profile murder trial, immersed in the legal drama while carrying the weight of justice on your shoulders. We welcome Producer Sara back after recently serving on a murder trial in Chattanooga, Tennessee. She shares her compelling experience and about her new podcast, "SEQUESTERED," which offers a gripping, firsthand look at the trial and the profound impact it had on her. With Moose's help, Sara sheds light on the trial, and invites you to explore the intense world of courtroom deliberations through a juror's eyes.As we mark five years of podcasting, we reflect on life's unpredictable journey, sharing poignant tales of love, loss, and resilience. Kat opens her heart about personal losses, recounting stories of her Uncle T and Uncle Don, which remind us all of the inevitability of mortality and the profound connections that bind us to family. These reflections underscore the enduring comfort family provides during times of grief and the unique ways each of us navigates the path of healing from loss.We also explore the emotional landscapes we traverse when anniversaries of loss come around, acknowledging how our bodies often harbor memories that surprise us. Through amusing anecdotes of mistaken celebrity identities and serendipitous encounters—like mistaking a fellow traveler for Brené Brown or meeting Louis Armstrong's daughter—we're reminded of the unpredictable nature of human connections. And, amidst these heartfelt discussions, we dive into lighter debates, such as the whimsical act of knitting gifts for strangers' babies during flights, bringing a touch of humor to our heartfelt conversation.Support the showFollow us on Instagram and Facebook! Support the show!

What happens when the truth is kept under lock and key? As Richard Allen faces trial, the defense's hope seems dim. With five alleged confessions, he's not looking great, but what about his mental state after being locked away in solitary confinement? Jennifer Coffindaffer and Tony Brueski dig into how Allen has visibly deteriorated, dropping weight and, possibly, his sanity. Could endless isolation lead a man to believe he committed a crime, even if he didn't? And why the secrecy? Sequestered juries, no electronics, and hidden exhibits—it's almost as if the trial itself is locked away, just like Allen. But is this about getting to the truth, or is someone trying to steer the narrative? What happens when the public is kept in the dark? #TrueCrime #RichardAllen #SequesteredJury #MentalState #Confessions #TrialSecrecy #HiddenKillersPodcast Want to listen to ALL of our podcasts AD-FREE? Subscribe through APPLE PODCASTS, and try it for three days free: https://tinyurl.com/ycw626tj Follow Our Other Cases: https://www.truecrimetodaypod.com The latest on The Downfall of Diddy, The Trial of Karen Read, The Murder Of Maddie Soto, Catching the Long Island Serial Killer, Awaiting Admission: BTK's Unconfessed Crimes, Delphi Murders: Inside the Crime, Chad & Lori Daybell, The Murder of Ana Walshe, Alex Murdaugh, Bryan Kohberger, Lucy Letby, Kouri Richins, Malevolent Mormon Mommys, Justice for Harmony Montgomery, The Murder of Stephen Smith, The Murder of Madeline Kingsbury, The Murder Of Sandra Birchmore, and much more! Listen at https://www.truecrimetodaypod.com 

What happens when the truth is kept under lock and key? As Richard Allen faces trial, the defense's hope seems dim. With five alleged confessions, he's not looking great, but what about his mental state after being locked away in solitary confinement? Jennifer Coffindaffer and Tony Brueski dig into how Allen has visibly deteriorated, dropping weight and, possibly, his sanity. Could endless isolation lead a man to believe he committed a crime, even if he didn't? And why the secrecy? Sequestered juries, no electronics, and hidden exhibits—it's almost as if the trial itself is locked away, just like Allen. But is this about getting to the truth, or is someone trying to steer the narrative? What happens when the public is kept in the dark? #TrueCrime #RichardAllen #SequesteredJury #MentalState #Confessions #TrialSecrecy #HiddenKillersPodcast Want to listen to ALL of our podcasts AD-FREE? Subscribe through APPLE PODCASTS, and try it for three days free: https://tinyurl.com/ycw626tj Follow Our Other Cases: https://www.truecrimetodaypod.com The latest on The Downfall of Diddy, The Trial of Karen Read, The Murder Of Maddie Soto, Catching the Long Island Serial Killer, Awaiting Admission: BTK's Unconfessed Crimes, Delphi Murders: Inside the Crime, Chad & Lori Daybell, The Murder of Ana Walshe, Alex Murdaugh, Bryan Kohberger, Lucy Letby, Kouri Richins, Malevolent Mormon Mommys, Justice for Harmony Montgomery, The Murder of Stephen Smith, The Murder of Madeline Kingsbury, The Murder Of Sandra Birchmore, and much more! Listen at https://www.truecrimetodaypod.com

What happens when the truth is kept under lock and key? As Richard Allen faces trial, the defense's hope seems dim. With five alleged confessions, he's not looking great, but what about his mental state after being locked away in solitary confinement? Jennifer Coffindaffer and Tony Brueski dig into how Allen has visibly deteriorated, dropping weight and, possibly, his sanity. Could endless isolation lead a man to believe he committed a crime, even if he didn't? And why the secrecy? Sequestered juries, no electronics, and hidden exhibits—it's almost as if the trial itself is locked away, just like Allen. But is this about getting to the truth, or is someone trying to steer the narrative? What happens when the public is kept in the dark? #TrueCrime #RichardAllen #SequesteredJury #MentalState #Confessions #TrialSecrecy #HiddenKillersPodcast Want to listen to ALL of our podcasts AD-FREE? Subscribe through APPLE PODCASTS, and try it for three days free: https://tinyurl.com/ycw626tj Follow Our Other Cases: https://www.truecrimetodaypod.com The latest on The Downfall of Diddy, The Trial of Karen Read, The Murder Of Maddie Soto, Catching the Long Island Serial Killer, Awaiting Admission: BTK's Unconfessed Crimes, Delphi Murders: Inside the Crime, Chad & Lori Daybell, The Murder of Ana Walshe, Alex Murdaugh, Bryan Kohberger, Lucy Letby, Kouri Richins, Malevolent Mormon Mommys, Justice for Harmony Montgomery, The Murder of Stephen Smith, The Murder of Madeline Kingsbury, The Murder Of Sandra Birchmore, and much more! Listen at https://www.truecrimetodaypod.com

What happens when the truth is kept under lock and key? As Richard Allen faces trial, the defense's hope seems dim. With five alleged confessions, he's not looking great, but what about his mental state after being locked away in solitary confinement? Jennifer Coffindaffer and Tony Brueski dig into how Allen has visibly deteriorated, dropping weight and, possibly, his sanity. Could endless isolation lead a man to believe he committed a crime, even if he didn't? And why the secrecy? Sequestered juries, no electronics, and hidden exhibits—it's almost as if the trial itself is locked away, just like Allen. But is this about getting to the truth, or is someone trying to steer the narrative? What happens when the public is kept in the dark? #TrueCrime #RichardAllen #SequesteredJury #MentalState #Confessions #TrialSecrecy #HiddenKillersPodcast Want to listen to ALL of our podcasts AD-FREE? Subscribe through APPLE PODCASTS, and try it for three days free: https://tinyurl.com/ycw626tj Follow Our Other Cases: https://www.truecrimetodaypod.com The latest on The Downfall of Diddy, The Trial of Karen Read, The Murder Of Maddie Soto, Catching the Long Island Serial Killer, Awaiting Admission: BTK's Unconfessed Crimes, Delphi Murders: Inside the Crime, Chad & Lori Daybell, The Murder of Ana Walshe, Alex Murdaugh, Bryan Kohberger, Lucy Letby, Kouri Richins, Malevolent Mormon Mommys, Justice for Harmony Montgomery, The Murder of Stephen Smith, The Murder of Madeline Kingsbury, The Murder Of Sandra Birchmore, and much more! Listen at https://www.truecrimetodaypod.com 

In today's episode, I sit down with James Maslow, known for his roles in Big Time Rush and Sequestered, to explore the balance between reacting to life's challenges and embracing creativity. James shares how his experiences in acting and music have shaped his ability to react with compassion and understanding. We discuss the importance of mentorship, the power of empathy over frustration, and how blending logic with creativity helps unlock potential in both business and art. James also reflects on the value of family, community, and long-term success, emphasizing the need to approach life with a balance of discipline and creativity, whether in personal or professional endeavors.

What a month! I'm glad it's only 29 days. We've been blessed by newcomers such as ULTROS (you won't want to miss this one) and long-overdue releases (Octopath Traveler II! Tekken Tag Tournament 2!) that blends in a 40-minutes mixtape, ranging from introspective vibes to head bobbing drum and bass. I must warn you: this is gonna be a ride. Enjoy!Chapters & credits:(00:00:04) Ultros"Embracing the Unknown", by Ratvader(00:03:35) Genshin Impact"Aloft the Realm of Gears", by HOYO-MiX(00:05:10) Mind Tunes"Sequestered", by Amrock Plaza(00:07:15) Cocoon"Spheres", by Jakob Schmid(00:10:13) SinoAlice"O' Brilliant Labyrinth", by MONACA(00:11:39) Tekken Revolution"Françoise Bassline", By Taku Inoue(00:15:57) Atomic Heart"Cookie Crumbler", by Geoffplaysguitar(00:20:16) Octopath Traveler II"Agnea, the Dancer", by Yasunori Nishiki(00:23:17) Faraway Fairway"Whirlpool", by Sam Webster(00:26:05) Racket Club"Jukebox in the Club", by Viktor Eidhagen(00:29:06) Subway Surfers"HIGHER", by Anna Konijnendijk, Mikkel Fabricious Smitt, Quentin Malapel(00:31:34) Foamstars"High on Life", by MONACA, J'nique NicoleFollow NOWPLAYING on Patreon to keep track of every single VGM release of 2024 and access to hefty playlists

Today, you'll learn about ants that play doctor to their fellow ants after going into battle, a possible game-changing way to sequester carbon at the bottom of the ocean, and the changes that can happen in the female mind during menstruation. Ant Doctors “Ants Recognize Infected Wounds and Treat Them.” Universitat Wurzburg. 2024. “Innovative drugs, chemicals, and enzymes within the animal production chain.” by Yousef I. Hassan, et al. 2018. “Targeted treatment of injured nestmates with antimicrobial compounds in ant society.” by Erik. T. Frank, et al. 2023. Ant Video. N.d. Sequestered Carbon “To combat climate change, companies bury plant waste at sea.” by Saima Sidik. 2023. “Biomass Storage in Anoxic Marine Basins: Initial estimates of geochemical impacts and CO2 sequestration capacity.” by Morgan Reed Raven, et al. 2023. “2023 Global Carbon Budget Report Emphasizes Urgent Need to Reduce Global Emissions.” by Laura Chaibongsai. 2023. Menstrual Brain “The menstrual rhythm of the brain.” Max Planck Gesellschaft. 2023. “Ultra-high-field 7T MRI reveals changes in human medial temporal lobe volume in female adults during menstrual cycle.” by Rachel G. Zsido, et al. 2023. Follow Curiosity Daily on your favorite podcast app to get smarter with Calli and Nate — for free! Still curious? Get exclusive science shows, nature documentaries, and more real-life entertainment on discovery+! Go to https://discoveryplus.com/curiosity to start your 7-day free trial. discovery+ is currently only available for US subscribers. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

CLICK LINK FOR YOUR OWN COPY BARKER'S BACK SOLVING CRIME WITH HIS PACK OF ADORABLE CANINES! Barker, the mysterious homeless detective with no memory of his past, returns in the wild, third installment of the Barker Mysteries. Sequestered in a thrown-together shack beneath the soggy planks of California's Old Fisherman's Wharf, Barker and his gaggle of street dogs have kept largely to themselves since the events of Monterey Pulp. When three teenagers go missing in Carmel-by-the-Sea, and an incriminating note is left on the beach below his barnacle-covered home, Barker is thrust into pulse-pounding action. From the sinister friar of the historic Carmel Mission to an encounter with crime boss Sleepy Redbone in the sweltering red rocks of Sedona, Arizona, our reluctant hero faces his greatest threats and learns a secret to his past he thought lost to him: his first name.

Yale educator and TV writer/producer, Aaron Tracy, returns to chat with me about surviving the WGA writer's strike, finally teaching the podcast at Yale, and his latest audio thriller on Audible, Nowhere Man, starring Lee Pace and Zosia Mamet. Aaron Tracy also teaches “The Art and Craft of Television Drama” at Yale University, and his TV credits include Law & Order: SVU, Fairly Legal, The Tap, and Sequestered, a serialized thriller that ran two seasons, for which he was Creator and Executive Producer.  He is also a Creator, Director,  and Exec. Producer of scripted audio dramas for iHeartRadio, Audible, and Spotify, with various production partners including: Supreme: The Battle For Roe, his 9-part audio drama starring Eva Longoria (feat. Maya Hawke and William H. Macy); Murder in Bermuda (feat. Mary-Louise Parker); and many others. His most recent is Nowhere Man (exclusively from Audible, premieres Thursday, December 14, 2023), a noir political thriller Executive Produced by and starring Lee Pace, with co-stars Zosia Mamet, and Chazz Palminteri. “Set in the mid-1980s, Nowhere Man is a dark, paranoid thriller about temptation and obsession through the prism of a profession most people don't even know exists.” Aaron's debut audio drama, The Coldest Case, a detective thriller starring Aaron Paul, Krysten Ritter, and Alexis Bledel, premiered as the #1 download on Audible in 2021, and has since become the most downloaded show in Audible Plus history. [Discover The Writer Files Extra: Get 'The Writer Files' Podcast Delivered Straight to Your Inbox at writerfiles.fm] [If you're a fan of The Writer Files, please click FOLLOW to automatically see new interviews. And drop us a rating or a review wherever you listen] In this file Aaron Tracy and I discussed: Why he loves the ‘80s period pieces How his directing experience has shaped his writing Why he teaches the narrative podcast the same way he teaches Television Drama The two greatest innovations of the modern TV art form  What aspiring TV writers should be reading And a lot more! Show Notes: Yale University – Aaron Tracy Aaron Tracy Audible Page Amazon Author Page for William Goldman Story by Robert McKee [Amazon] Save the Cat by Blake Snyder [Amazon] Aaron Tracy on IMdB Aaron Tracy on Twitter Kelton Reid on Twitter Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

At the dawn of the Beatles' dissolution, Paul McCartney and his wife, Linda, started to spend an increasing amount of time in the Scottish countryside. Sequestered at their farm near the Mull of Kintyre, McCartney found refuge in his family, his animals, and in fixing up their homestead. The ease and charm of country living was documented in “When Winter Comes” from 2020's McCartney III. And in 1977 his ode to life on the family farm, “Mull of Kintyre,” became a massive hit for Wings despite the hold disco and soft rock had on the charts and the ascendance of punk and new wave. “McCartney: A Life in Lyrics” is a co-production between iHeart Media, MPL and Pushkin Industries. The series was produced by Pejk Malinovski and Sara McCrea; written by Sara McCrea; edited by Dan O'Donnell and Sophie Crane; mastered by Jason Gambrell with sound design by Pejk Malinovski. The series is executive produced by Leital Molad, Justin Richmond, Lee Eastman and Scott Rodger. Thanks to Lee Eastman, Richard Ewbank, Scott Rodger, Aoife Corbett and Steve Ithell. And thank you to Ally the Piper for her rendition of “Mull of Kintyre,” “inchadney” for their composition, “Bagpipes in Pitlochery” and Ross Fleming for voicing the 1966 news item.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Starr, from AA home group -Sequestered Girls by 2 Sober Chicks - Lisa & Julie

Yale educator and TV writer/producer, Aaron Tracy, spoke with me about what it takes to make it as a TV writer, breaking into the audio drama space, producing Audible's most successful original fiction series, and working on the upcoming “Supreme” with Eva Longoria. Aaron Tracy teaches “The Art and Craft of Television Drama” at Yale University, and his TV credits include Law & Order: SVU, Fairly Legal, The Tap, and Sequestered, a serialized thriller that ran two seasons, for which he was Creator and Executive Producer.  He is also the Creator, Head Writer, and Exec. Producer of scripted audio dramas for iHeartRadio, Audible, and Spotify, with various production partners. These include an underdog NBA story with Steve Nash, a legal thriller with James Patterson, a historical romance with Shonda Rhimes, and a courtroom drama with Eva Longoria. His first show to be released, The Coldest Case, a detective thriller starring Aaron Paul, Krysten Ritter, and Alexis Bledel, premiered as the #1 download on Audible in 2021, and has since become the most downloaded show in Audible Plus history. His audio entertainment company, Parallax, is the home for “prestige scripted audio thrillers and thought-provoking unscripted fare.” [Discover The Writer Files Extra: Get 'The Writer Files' Podcast Delivered Straight to Your Inbox at writerfiles.fm] [If you're a fan of The Writer Files, please click FOLLOW to automatically see new interviews. And drop us a rating or a review wherever you listen] In this file Aaron Tracy and I discussed: The two paths available to aspiring TV writers  Why you need to always be pitching ideas How audio dramas harken back to the golden days of radio Landing big stars for "TV shows without the visuals" Working with Rob Reiner How to write for the ear Why the journey is the destination for writers And a lot more! Show Notes: Yale University – Aaron Tracy Aaron Tracy Audible Page Aaron Tracy on IMdB Aaron Tracy on Twitter Kelton Reid on Twitter Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Emily brings us the case of Blanche Monnier this week after our Christmas break. Blanche Monnier, was a French woman who was secretly kept locked in a small room by her aristocratic mother and brother for almost half her life. We discuss how insane the reasoning behind this was and just how utterly bizarre the whole case is!

Looking at things from a different perspective this holiday season and I eviscerate the holiday cartoon Frosty Returns... --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

This is an interesting one...Join me as I sit down with 'the demons' some of the kids who were in my frat. Listen as they tell the story of how they got robbed, and took matters into their own hands... allegedly (idk for legal purposes).I also start off the episode by answering a fan question on my thoughts/plans to move out of my parents house. The idea of potentially moving to Europe?Had to reupload because someone kept using the last name of a person, even though we agreed not to... you know who you are.Anyway, enjoy. InstagramWebsite

In this fiercely non-partisan episode, Rich brings back energy expert Rich Gallagher, the CEO and Managing Director of Canadian Vitality Pathway to talk about Hydrogen Energy and its use to strive for zero emission.Support the show

Sequestered in a storage room on board the Spectre, Rho attempts to learn more about her new captors while also figuring out a way to free herself as quickly as possible. Meanwhile, Dr. Amos and Dr. Bennett funnel nearly all of their resources into retrieving their missing asset.Cast (in order of appearance):Stef Howerton -- RhoDavid S. Dear -- Garyn BeikirchSarah Rhea Werner -- Greer NiedmeierMarcus Rothenberg -- GrapeTal Minear -- Macie VincentNewton Schottelkotte -- Atalanta "Atta" HarrisAllen Chan -- Warren LeeDavid Ault -- First Mate Edward WhitlawKarim Kronfli -- Dr. Karl AmosLindsay Zana -- Dr. Cicely BennettStephanie Tobin -- Captain Lillian DunneMusic: Tim RoskoSound Design: Brad ColbroockWritten, Directed, and Produced by Stef HowertonShow Art by Stef HowertonPhotography by XiaoyiSupport this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/spectre/donations

In April of 2021 ARTi had the chance to sell and ship 40 cubic yards of biochar. 40 cubic yards weighed at approximately 16k lb of biochar which would represent (if the conversion is x3) 48,000 lb of CO₂ or 20 Metric tons of CO₂ sequestered . With 1 gallon of biochar able to sequester 6 lbs of CO₂ this shipment represents 48,473.76 lbs (3.84 metric tonnes) of CO₂ capture!

Do you find yourself thinking that God exists for your beck and call? Think again – let your afflictions lead you into your prayer closet. Only then can your emptiness meet God's fullness.

When strange and sophisticated aerial vehicles were first spotted buzzing in and around our skies in a series of flaps during the period of the 1940s, many assumed these represented the visitation of an extraterrestrial species. The beyond next-gen characteristics of these advanced craft – where they could travel at incredible rates of speed, hover in place, and make 90 degree turns on a dime – suggested to most that these could not logically be the property of any known nation-state actor. The technological prowess of these so-called unidentified flying objects was simply too advanced to be of terrestrial origin. It is therefore not surprising that the seemingly logical conclusion that many came to was that these simply must be visitors from beyond our planet. At first, when the barrenness of the planets of our own solar system was not yet fully realized, many assumed these to be visiting Martians or Venusians. And then as our surveying of the planets of our own solar neighborhood showed them to be lifeless, ufologists and the public alike began to wonder from which extra-solar source these beings were coming from. But again, the assumption was still that these must be visitors from “outer space”. After all, that seemed to be the only frontier we had yet to explore. Since those early days of the flying saucer phenomenon, other – and to most, more exotic – hypotheses have arisen, suggesting these Others may be interdimensional in nature, or perhaps even time-traveling humans from our future. Some researchers suggest both extraterrestrials and interdimensionals may be in the mix. In the course of that conversation, again, the assumption has been that these must be something non-terrestrial in nature, because the sophistication of the craft themselves suggest no known nation-state actor could have developed such beyond next-gen technology. However, there is one key assumption being made here: and that is that it is only the known nation-state actors: The United States, Russia, etc, that could possibly even get close to this level of technological prowess. The pertinent question to ask here is: is that a fair assumption to make? Is it only nation-state actors that we need to account for? Or is it possible that some other human group, not usually accounted for, could actually be responsible for the design and development of these UFOs – or at least some of them? Perhaps to many people's surprise, there is a rather daunting amount of historical evidence suggesting the possibility that these craft – or again – at least some of them – could actually be the property of a rogue group of scientifically-oriented techno-military elites that may have broken off from conventional society sometime during the middle part of the 20th century, not long after, we should note, the first series of sightings of disk-like craft. But what is the nature of this evidence? And does it get even close to passing muster in terms of suggesting that a truly sequestered society might exist, in our very midst? Is it possible that some of the beyond next-gen vehicles that have been spotted in our skies might actually be of terrestrial origin, after all – even if that terrestrial origin is of a non-conventional nature – one that exists beyond the scope of our nation-state global system? These are the very questions we'll seek to engage with in this, the 64th episode of the Point of Convergence podcast. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/pointofconvergence/support

Dean was deaf.  It was that simple, but it was inordinately complex at the same time.  Life can have its sinkholes.  Sometimes there's a bunch of them, enough of them to cause a broad and crippling implosion where things just cave in all around us.  Life then becomes a litany of foggy responses to trauma where we move zombie-like through whatever the day or the moment holds.  There is no forward movement in times like these.  When our worlds collapse it all becomes about survival because often that's all it can be about.  Soon survival becomes the norm where we strive to survive for the sake of survival itself.  Life becomes abjectly meaningless other than getting through the day to fight the meaningless that will face us again tomorrow. Dean was deaf.  But he was mentally retarded as well.  Tenderly kind, compassionate and invitingly soft underneath it all, he was the by-product of the sink-holes that had scattered themselves all around his life.  In the end, it all imploded and he retreated into his deafness and his mental retardation, finding there some seclusion away from it all.  He sat along the roadside of life watching some of it go by and ignoring the rest of it.  He surrendered to isolation and held the world at bay, barricading himself many fathoms deep within himself.  He effectively placed himself out of reach of anything.  He was a treasure lost in the stratified subterranean layers of his fear.               He had never mastered his deafness.  Some lean into their disability and shape it to serve them.  He never leaned into it.  Some work to compensate for their handicaps by strengthening the things that are not handicaps.  He never compensated.  Rather, he decompensated down into a silent oblivion where he sat hunched and utterly alone. Sign language and the reading of lips never broke him out of the prison that deafness had thrust him into; that place so many fathoms deep that no one could get down there.  He was somehow held inside with the world held outside.  Each could see the other from their variant vantage points, but neither could bridge the gap nor plumb the depths.  Whatever separated him from the rest of us seemed intractably immovable.   A Conviction of Greatness Life sometimes persuades us to believe that there is so much more to something or some person even though we can't see it.  We engage that thing or that person with a certainty that there lies within them something profound despite the fact that it's completely hidden.  It seems that we walk circles around them, looking and probing for some crack or tear that will grant us a peek inside.  We look for some chink to wriggle through or a knob that we can wrestle with long enough until some hidden door opens and grants us entrance to the riches within.  There emerges a dogged persistence about it all because we dare not bypass what lies within even though it's held away from us. That was Dean.  He was a kid that I could not let go of even though there was nothing to hold onto.  His mild mental retardation put him even further away; a young man of riches unearthed that always provoked me back to him.  He was frustrating and abrasive at times, being unable to break through his own deafness and reach up and out to everything outside of himself.  His coarse and sometimes rash behaviors seemed to be an expression of his deeply engrained trepidation of the world, combined with his own frustration of choosing to seclude himself.  Because he couldn't break out, he reinforced his isolation from the inside out, pushing everything away so that he would have a sense that it was he who was locking it all out.   Somehow he found solace in thinking he controlled it because it gave him a sense he could get out of it.  He couldn't. I didn't choose to be relentless with this kid.  I had no choice but be relentless.  Sometimes what you see in another is far too convincing and too terribly compelling to let it go of it even when you meet with nothing more than outright rejection and ever-thickening walls.  And walls there were; thick, fortified and towering.  I found myself relentless in pursuit and then disappointed into withdrawal, only to do it all over again because this kid was somehow just too precious to let go of.  He needed to hear, maybe not with his ears, but at least with his heart.  I prayed that God would pull Dean aside and open up something that would open him up.         Deaf to Life Rejection and scorn was his lot due to the assumption of sin that others had about him.  The world was loudly silent for him.  Something was missing that he could not identify because he had never known it.  Life is indeed an orchestra full and complete, absolutely masterful.  But for the deaf man it was absolutely silent.  The musical pieces and masterful renditions for which life was created were soundless for him.  Notes and scores that were casually written across the faces of friends, that were penned in the raucous flamboyance across bustling open air markets, that found subtle notation in droning bees gently drifting from blossom to awaiting blossom all gave the faintest hints of the melodies they illustrated, but the sounds were never there.  The sheet music ran in front of him in endless reams, but they didn't spawn a sound. The haunting call of myriad geese aloft, the pounding surf throwing itself against a forever beach, or the fingers of the wind rustling through listless treetops were silent for him.  The roll of a distant summer thunderstorm on a humid horizon, or the raucous laughter of life rising from the soul of humanity itself was nothing more and nothing less than the sound of silence.  Entombed in a vacuum of deafening silence, the orchestra had always played soundlessly for this deaf man; vigorously indeed, but vigorously silent.  He was deaf and he was starkly alone. He attempted to interact and engage with the music and the melodies.  But to try to participate in a world you can't hear leaves you ever outside of that world despite how hard you try.  His lips were slow and drawn with words that were ill-formed.  He arduously attempted to wrap words around voice and syntax and intonation that he had never heard.  He spent himself in perpetually frustrating efforts to do what he couldn't conceive and could much less imagine, to put sounds to words he'd never heard. His words were slurred, distorted, verbally twisted and linguistically bent, readily inviting and successfully garnering ridicule, mockery and confusion from those that lived in the world of sound.  His was a life forced out onto the fringes of life, exiled there in a lonely land where silence is a hated, but forever companion.  There was no breech in the wall to slip back through in order to touch humanity so as to belong to something other than the silence. Rejection by others was based on the errant assumption that some sin had caused his deafness.  This conclusion was elevated as full-fledged fact, rendering him an outcast on the falsest of premises.  Rejection and silence are both isolating, the difference is that one is a choice, the other is chance.  What they have in common is that the person upon whom they both fell chose neither.  It was something like a full emasculation of everything it is to be human.  This is what it was to be deaf and mute.  And so his life went. There was a rumor that circulated.  A distant murmuring unheard by deaf ears, but caught by others said that Jesus was in the Decapolis.  This prophet and miracle worker had come.  The verdict as to who this Jesus was remained a point of discussion and debate.  Some of that was quite heated and some of it was really rather innocuous.  Yet, He was coming and the captivating risk that He was something more than a mortal man was compelling. Had those around this deaf man tired of his dependency, these friends of his, or did they care for him?  Was he little more than an object that could be used to entice a miracle of this prophet?  Was their intent little more than a ploy for a cheap thrill?  The text is unclear.  The motive is foggy and indistinct.  But they take the deaf mute to Jesus.  It didn't appear to be an action of the deaf man' own accord as there is no hint of self-determination or self-initiation.  There doesn't appear to be any sort of remote inkling that the possibility of being ushered into the world of sound is a distinct possibility.  How can you possibly know what you're missing if you've never had it?  How can you desire something if desire has no place to be cultivated because we've no idea that there's anything to be desired?  Sometimes we see in and through others what we could not otherwise see because it's not within us to see.  Sometimes we experience the passionate and vigorous pulse of desire vicariously through the heartbeat of others and we sense the pulse in them.  Sometimes our vision of the possible is only possible because we see that vision reflected in the eyes of another and we watch it listlessly dance about in their smile.  Sometimes we actually end up dancing because others have caused us to believe in the dance and have ushered us out on the dance floor even when we can't hear the music ourselves.  Such were the deaf mute's friends.       And so, the rumor draws them to Jesus.  Soon the embedded mass was found.  Ushered by these friends, the deaf man pressed through the crowd.  The small entourage cuts a swath through a fluid array of assorted humanity that swelled and eddied around Jesus.  The clamor of a world of never-ending needs simultaneously sought relief.  The world clamored around Jesus seeking some shred of hope and some healing that arises from that shred of that very hope.  The crowd swirled around this wandering prophet as if in the grip of the undertow of all creation, an irresistible current from which all other currents find their sole source.  Passing through a cultural morass of assembled humanity the deaf man is drawn toward the center. The aged, stooped and shuffling in the grip of long years wandered about in a cloudy curiosity.  Children darted in and out.  The blind walked about groping, stretching trembling arms outward, substituting touch for sight and sound for vision.  Stumbling, they made their way to Jesus.  Crutches that were terribly crude and deeply weather-worn were nothing more than primitive prosthetics that sought a miracle for an absent leg.  A cripple, his fingers clawing the arid soil drug useless appendages and tattered garments that trailed in the talcum dirt behind him. Limp in his mother's arms an infant teetered on the chilling precipice of death, the pallor of death strangely awash across the face of newborn life rendering his skin hues of suffocating purple.  His mother stood on panicked tiptoe, stretching her neck to catch a glimpse of something, anxiously groping toward the center of the mass.  It was all silence to the deaf mute.  It was all wildly alive, vibrant, turbulent and wonderfully riotous, but deathly silent.  From his vantage point, the drama was only partly revealed. Pressing onward and inward, it was more of the same.  The scene was packed tight with shifting layers of broken humanity, the curious, the destitute, the rich and poor alike.  Finally the last layer of jostling, clamoring humanity parted like the parting of some glorious tapestry.  A man of silent stature stood in the crowd, yet infinitely above it.  The nucleus of the swirling mass of people and their needs was deafening in silence.  Jesus back was to them.  Slightly stooped, His hands gently rest on the shoulders of an elderly woman.  The look of astonishment was set in her eyes and splashed across her face.  A worn cane lay abandoned at her feet.  Something unusual had transpired.  It was immediately clear that there was thick compassion in His touch, His stance, and His mannerisms.  A parting word to the woman and He turns. His gaze shifted and panned the crowd.  Mussing the hair of a playful child, both smile deeply and invade the heart of the other in a superbly divine intersection.  Another step and this Jesus was drawn to the outstretched arms of an ecstatic infant.  He moved toward her, His face electrically alive with love and aflame with anticipation.  To squeals of laughter He took her, held her high, pulled her to His chest, ran His hand across a misshapen leg and it was straight.  The convergence of two souls, He drew her deeply to His face.  And then He handed her back to an elated set of parents who now held a daughter who was wholly whole.  All of it was too much for words; it was too inexplicable to embrace in the confining catacombs of human understanding.  The only question that one can formulate is “Who is this?” Before the answer can be formulated Jesus is drawn to the pleas of those who have brought the deaf mute, pleas the deaf man cannot hear.  The man, this Jesus stepped toward them, fastening His attention on those who had brought the man.  He seemed discerning and listening with some sort of intuition and understanding that superseded anything they could comprehend. He then turned intense eyes and fastened His gaze on the mute.  His eyes were more than human, although they appeared to be something that was fully human at the same time.  They were infinitely deep, profoundly thoughtful and intensely focused.  A soft but chiseled spirit enamored the crowd and drew the deaf man to Jesus.  It was all a terrible yet inviting contradiction of commanding power and gentle softness.  Jesus' eyes had the breath of infinity behind them.  The deaf mute found himself becoming entirely lost in them until Jesus took his arm, gestured and began to move out of the crowd.  God was afoot; the Creator of the universe in intentional motion toward an intentional destination.  It was all terrifying but exhilarating at the same time. This fluid mass of humanity parted a second time, but from the inward out.  Shifting layers of broken humanity sliced a swath to the edge of the mass.  Jesus breeched the fringes of the crowd, walking with a man whose life had been lived on the fringes of life.  Jesus was in the process of isolating a man who lived isolated in deafness.  In a moment, the crowd was far behind them, their voices falling into a distant murmur.  Those that advocated his healing were absent.  Suddenly, inexplicably, this deaf mute was alone with God. Ears and tongue; the world is drawn in through one with the self being released through the other.  They both engage in a partnership of exchange, drawing in and letting out.  They draw in the world to process it and then release it back into the world with part of the person attached; adding to life, flavoring it, affixing yet another unique note to the chorus of the ages.  There, in the world of the deaf, this dance was never initiated.  The deaf man was isolated from the world and to the world. Drawing the man along, Jesus sought isolation.  It was within isolation that isolation would be broken.  One on one, God and man in relationship echoing back to a lost garden.  The Creator and the created rectifying lost creation in an act of recreation.  In this joint journey they walked past the rancor and raucous of an open air market filled with bartering and bantering, scales and sweeping gestures.  They skirted around scurrying children and walked past stray dogs milling close to tables spread with red meats.  A pair of centurions laden with weaponry strode past in the service of oppression, granting Jesus and the deaf mute no notice.  Passing priests in ceremonial robes stepped in pompous cadence on errands of perceived righteousness. And then, an unexpected turn into a vacant alley made up of basalt stones that cut a manmade canyon.  The sun found scant room to watch the making of a miracle.  It casts angled rays, canting itself to catch the pending phenomenon.  The din of the open air market and the jostling of the vendors was put at a sufficient distance, becoming gradually muted and fading soft and indistinct into the background. Then, a miracle was wrought with gestures that were so familiar to the mute.  Gestures were the very means of understanding and the way in which the deaf mute had navigated his world.  Jesus was not a God interacting in mystery, but in intimacy.  There were no methods cloaked with indiscernible actions or unfamiliar rituals.  All was simple, direct and familiar; fingers in ears and a touch of the tongue.  Saliva was a symbol of the fullest sharing of self as a participant in the miracle right along with the deaf mute.  Jesus engaged the man not as a distant entity cloaked beyond recognition in some sort of misty immutability.  Salvia was believed to have had a curative quality; a belief entirely fictional in nature.  However, the symbolism of the act provided a needed vehicle that outweighed the myth of the act itself.  So Jesus ingeniously chose to use myth as a vehicle for a miracle; a miracle done in the simple language of the deaf mute's isolated world to obliterate his isolation. And then there was something for Jesus Himself.  Something the deaf man could not hear or participate in.  Jesus looked up to heaven.  There is a weighted sigh of a God whose love eliminates His ability not to feel.  It was a reflection of both His heart and the heart of His Father.  It seemed to be the private pain of a God grieving over His own creation, escaping the lethal weight of it all only by virtue of His divinity.  Jesus's sighing was likely the plaintive moan of God once again embracing the awful reality of fallen mankind as manifest in this single, mute life.   It was likely the expression of a great angst that arose from an infinite understanding of how far this man's life was from God's original intent for him. There, in that alley God would meet the need of one man.  In a few days, He would meet the need of thousands with a scant seven barley loaves and a few small fish.  A few months beyond that and He would meet the need of all mankind on a barren hill.  It would be a hill that would not be sandwiched between the walls of some abandoned alley, but between two crosses and two worlds.  However, there was the need of the moment. “Be opened!” (Mark 8:34, NIV) said this Jesus.  Not just his ears, but his life as no miracle is excluded or in any way restrained solely to the obvious.  “Be opened!”  Be free to live fully, to hear in perfect pitch the richness of the notes and measures, the scores of life and living.  Be opened to engage everything else in life that was open.  Be opened so that being closed simply cannot be. Jesus took a step back and watched life unfold as the miracle reverberated far beyond the miracle; something like when a stone is dropped in a mirrored pool, sending ripples far beyond the point of impact.  An alien experience transpired for which the man had no point of correlation.  Sounds began to filter through.  The orchestra gradually swelled and expanded.  The void of silence filled to capacity. Suddenly, he heard the crunch of gravel beneath his feet, shifting his weight again and again to reproduce the sound his stunned and hungry mind had never imagined.  The barking of a dog floated in from afar, the source of the sound and everything that defined it was entirely unknown.  Birds darted overhead in tangles of wild flight, cheeps and chirps synchronizing the feathered masses journey.  He was caught in the rapture of hearing his own breath.  And then words, the first he had ever heard, annunciated clearly, perfectly and concisely.  His own voice now came back to him perfect!  The cycle was now marvelously complete. Jesus stood silently, giving the man room and time to embrace the wonder of the moment.  Miracles become freeing and claustrophobic at the same time; opening up entirely new venues that are often bigger than our ability to embrace.  Time was needed to allow this astonished man sufficient time to reorient to the miracle of a life restored.  Maybe Jesus saw in this man, this deaf mute the liberation that the cross would extend to billions. It may be that the individual miracles, like this one, allowed Jesus to foresee in this solitary face what the cross would do in an endless sea of faces across endless spans of time.  Not the kinds of miracles that would eventually fall to the deterioration of frail bodies and the eventuality of death, but miracles that would be eternally fresh because they open up all of eternity to all who seize it.  I wonder if maybe it might have been these moments that allowed Him to endure the long moments on a lonely cross.  And then, the first words of another human being that he ever heard.  “Don't tell anyone,” Jesus said.  The first words seem irrational and inexplicable.  The world of sounds brings with it responsibility to the world it unveils.  Miracles bring with them accountability to both the Restorer and what has been restored.  A relationship with God brings obedience, the responsibility to act on faith even when that action appears irrational, contrary, odd or plainly wrong.  “Don't tell anyone”.  But containment failed.  The measure of the miracle was larger than the measure of the man to contain it.  But that is what happens when an infinite God interacts within our finite frames.  What He does is always bigger than us and bigger than our ability to contain it.  Our faith may be big enough to elicit a miracle, but our faith is seldom large enough to embrace it once it happens.  Jesus took his arm, gestured and began to move out of the alley and into life.   Aside in an Alley And so, Jesus pulls me aside at times and isolates me in my isolation.  He places creation aside and draws me to a secluded place, away from the crowds that surround me and the world that has so often thrust me to its fringes.  Often I am afraid to be there because I am confused and frightened to be one on one with God.  I would much prefer to have Him heal me at a safe distance, or intersect my life in the companionship of others, or touch me as part of something larger within which I can meld.  But one on one in some alley in my life; secluded with God?  Sequestered with the Creator?  It is both terrible and wonderful. And then, to have Him connect with me intimately in that place of isolation?  The God of the cosmos coming to me in my isolation?  Not just in proximity or in earshot, but in my language and in the raw essence of my being.  God steps into my isolation and speaks to me there.  Not standing outside of my isolation and beckoning me out of it from out there.  But coming in, gently taking my arm and gesturing me out of it.  Partnering with me and in the partnering coming squarely into my isolation to commandeer me and rescue me. Cutting through the mass of issues, pain, self-absorption, and self-hatred that surrounds me and drawing me along with Him. And there, in those isolated alleys of my life He frees me.  He relishes watching me come to life and then fumble with a life that's so new that I have little idea how to hold it.  He is as amazed at watching me come to life as He was when He first formed Adam from the dust and “breathed into his nostrils the breath of life” (Genesis 2:7, NIV).  It is just as poignant for Him, never being diminished for a God whose love for His creation rages undiminished.  God is always revealing that creation can only exist if it is constantly creating.  “He has done everything well . . .” (Mark 7:37, NIV).  Harkening to yet another statement . . . “and God saw that it was good” (Genesis 1:10, NIV).  In that alley God was creating all over again as He always does, doing everything well and good.   Dean's Alley It was all experimental, but the doctors said that the surgery might restore Dean's hearing.  He was not enthused at all.  Dean walked through the process more like a laboratory rat that had no idea of what was happening or what the possible outcome might mean.  He was lethargic through it all, demure and distant. But the day came quite by accident.  I turned and there he stood.  My first response was to say “hello” out of some prescribed tedium and routine, knowing that he wasn't reading my lips.  Sometimes rote and ritual turns life lifeless.  It robs us of expectation and hope.  I felt that way with Dean.  But I said “hello” anyway. He simply looked, canting his head a bit and registering something in those crystal blue eyes that I had never seen.  Sometimes we imagine something so much for so long that when it's ours it's both wonderful and terribly different than we had ever imagined it being.  I think that was the case for Dean.  He had heard my voice.  The surgery had worked.  For the first time, he had taken in the tone and flavor of the single word that I had uttered and had found himself awed by the utterance.  He smiled and seemed to wait for more.  I paused.  “Can you hear me?” I said tentatively, desperately hoping that he was no longer locked in and I locked out. Instantly he grabbed my arm, turned and in the rush of wonder pulled me down the hall and into his room.  He stopped in the middle of that quaint room and pointed at the various objects around us in frantic gestures.  It was all so new for me that I had no idea of what he meant.  He continued to point in a manner insistent and adamant, walking around the room in a rigid gait and incessantly pointing. Finally, I realize what he wanted; he wanted me to pronounce what the objects were, to speak their name, to say them so that he could hear them for the first time.  Picture, telephone, window, bed, floor, light, wall, rug, Craig; it was a young man surging alive with an urgency that flooded the room with a terrific and wonderful energy.  He was hearing it all, for the first time. Sometimes you sense that you've been put in a place of privilege that you are completely and wholly undeserving of.  That's where I was on that day.  God came aside this young man through the hands of a caring doctor and an experimental surgery.  Now I was privileged to stand beside him as well, inundated in a tsunami of wonderment and life. It all went on for days and days.  I couldn't wait to see Dean.  In indescribable awe, I watched a young man come alive in a way that makes coming alive worth all the pain and disappointment and deafness that we have to endure to get there.  A miracle came to me through Dean.  Deafness was abated in infinitely more ways that simply physical hearing.  Dean reminds me of deafness and what it can do to a person and a life.  Dean also reminds me of deafness abated when God comes along side of a single life and renders deafness deaf.               Repeated Deafness Unlike the deaf mute and unlike Dean, my deafness and my inability to speak to my world come often.  Frequently I need Jesus to put His fingers in my ears and touch my tongue.  Sin, selfishness and the lure of the world renders me deaf and ill-suited to speak as I should.  My condition is pitifully recurrent.  God's presence is likewise persistently recurrent.  Daily I am in this alley with Him.  While I tire of it and find myself sweltering in embarrassment, He never tires.  He likes, it seems, these alley encounters.  He relishes taking me aside.  And I know that one day He will take me aside for that final time, that time when I will ascend to a place where deafness and speech deficits will simply not exist.  Their memory will be vanquished.  And there, in that place, I will stand eternally before God in perfection with new worlds perpetually opening up to me.  In that place the layers will constantly part to reveal something new.  His smile, the relish in His face will never be old, but always new.   Pondering Point The loud voices in life, those that clamor for our attention are most often not the vital voices.  The fact that they have to clamor suggests as much.  It is the smaller voices that are weak, thin and easily drown out that are rich.  It is these that tend to be the priceless voices.  Their worth easily lost in the pompous and presumptuous voices that say much but hold little.  It is easy to become deaf.  And when we are, we miss the precious voices whose worth is immutable.

WATCH THIS EPISODE ON YOUTUBE: https://youtu.be/BgFjE_yQcc4 Today on Screenwriter Survival Guide, I had an amazing chat with screenwriter Aaron Tracy, who was a writer on Law & Order: SVU and the creator of the Crackle series Sequestered. He's recently made the leap to audiodramas, where he's made projects with the likes of James Patterson, Shonda Rhimes, and Steve Nash that have gone on to premiere #1 on Audible. We talked about everything from pitching and selling scripts, to the importance of finding fulfillment before you've "made it", to why audiodramas are the future of screenwriting. After you finish this episode, go take a listen to Aaron's newest project: 10 Days, which is a high-stakes audiodrama about the wild world of 10-day contracts in the NBA. Scroll down to the bottom of the show notes for the link to watch. Connect with Aaron on Twitter (@aarondtracy). If Screenwriter Survival Guide is providing value for you, we would really appreciate a quick rate and review! That really helps us build this community and keep delivering excellent advice for screenwriters. Questions? Concerns? Guest ideas? Reach out on Instagram @sambrookspresents or email me at sam@screenwritersurvivalguide.com. SCREENWRITER SURVIVAL TIP: Write something completely different. LISTEN TO '10 DAYS': https://www.audible.com/pd/10-Days-Podcast/B09MJP5TMJ --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/screenwritersurvivalguide/support

Sequestered in offices, closets, dining rooms, and garages, the #PodSquad delivers more crowdsourced Q&A than you can shake an FAQ at. Thanks to all who contributed! We fly through holidays because we know you love them. #HoWoPo Hosted by: Leah K, Matt E, Matt B, Lauren C, and Sabrina J 00:00 - Intro and Welcome 01:33 - MORE Crowdsourced Q&A 35:42 - Upcoming Holidays Email us: podcast@holidayworld.com Leave a voicemail: Phone (812)-937-4401 Ext. 8081 Reach out on social media: @holidayworld using #HoWoPo For Show Notes and Transcript, visit HolidayWorld.com/HoliBlog 2022 Season Passes are now on sale now! Head to HolidayWorld.com/Passes for all the details. Pick Your Date and Plan for Fun! Great deals on Pick Your Date Tickets are now online! HolidayWorld.com/Tickets Subscribe Links: iTunes: http://bit.ly/HWPitunes Spotify: http://bit.ly/HWPspotify Amazon: http://bit.ly/HWP_amzn Stitcher: http://bit.ly/HWPstitcher Google Podcasts: http://bit.ly/HWP_gp YouTube: http://bit.ly/HWP_u2be iHeartRadio: http://bit.ly/HWP_ihr TuneIn: http://bit.ly/HWPtunein Vurbl: https://bit.ly/HWP_vurbl RSS Feed: http://bit.ly/HWP

When your life is in the deep freeze, what is God doing? What is God's plan when everything is on hold?

If you can get by the EMOTION, and of course charges of RACISM, there are certain WORDS that need to be dealt with when it comes to the George Floyd Trial. Those words are SEQUESTERED, CONFRONTATIONAL, JURY INTIMIDATION, HARASSMENT and MISTRIAL

My friend Courtney Patton is a storyteller. She’s also a mother, a wife, a producer, a singer, a songwriter, a tour-van driver and a musician- as well as a world-traveler when she’s out on tour throughout the continental U.S., Canada and Europe. In a musical era in which clichés and bravado are the norm, Courtney is far more brave in peeling back highly personal and emotional open-book songs delivering them with sensitivity and sentiment Following her previous solo albums, Triggering a Flood (2013) and So This Is Life (2015), and her acoustic collaborative project with her husband and fellow Texas troubadour Jason Eady, Something Together, (2017), Patton has drawn on true life day-to-day autobiographical life experiences released a third album, What It’s Like To Fly Alone. As you will hear in this recent conversation I had with Courtney on my radio show, she is on the road again after spending a very challenging, but productive year in quarantine, raising her two children while co-founding a new non profit during a pandemic. Hmmm…that sounds familiar. The Sequestered Songwriters Relief Fund was an idea born out of the COVID-19 pandemic. The Mission of the Sequestered Songwriters Relief Fund is to… Provide emergency relief funds for full-time Americana musicians in need. A group of songwriter friends gathered virtually to participate in an online guitar pull to celebrate Merle Haggard on his birthday. The following week, John Prine passed, and the group again gathered virtually to pay tribute to him. None of the songwriters wanted to stop, and the fans were just as excited, so the weekly tributes continued. Fans started asking about how they could financially support the endeavor. As none of the musicians wanted any kind of compensation for the amount of fun they were having online each week, the idea to start a nonprofit that would benefit songwriters in future financial crisis seemed like the perfect solution. Next up…the Sequestered Songwriters Festival to be held on October 17, 2021 in Justin, Texas. Enjoy my conversation with my friend, Courtney Patton!

The Supreme Court rules in favor of Georgia in suit filed by Florida over the use of Chattahoochee and Flint rivers, and U.S. Fruit and Vegetable export values show slight drop.

Jessica's been asked a lot of questions about another case coming out of Minnesota, following the Supreme Court's decision to vacate the conviction of a man accused of raping a woman who intoxicated herself.  Say what?  In this 10-minute mini-episode, Jessica breaks down the facts and the Supreme Court's reluctant opinion.Sidebar is a new feature of Sequestered: The Podcast.  Tune in for a quick breakdown of cases you might be seeing in the media.  It's the same analysis and sass you've come to expect from Sequestered, in an abbreviated form.  

This week, we take the show to the countryside of Sweden for an intimate talk with Kristian Matsson, poet-songwriter and masterful acoustic multi-instrumentalist who has released five acclaimed albums and two EPs over the last decade and a half, performing as The Tallest Man on Earth. Growing up in the small hamlet of Leksand, a three hour trek from Stockholm, Mattson was in rowdier indie-rock outfits like Montezumas before breaking out with his own dreamier acoustic material - gaining international notice with his breakout solo offering 'Shallow Grave' in 2008. Tours with Bon Iver across North America gained Matsson an adoring audience in the states, where he ended up setting up shop in Brooklyn. Most often performing solo even on the biggest stages, Matsson is known to have seven or more intricate tunings for his guitars and banjos, and with his high, cutting voice and cryptic, nature-inspired lyrics, he has been compared to some of his heroes like Roscoe Holcomb, Bob Dylan and Paul Simon but with a Swedish-naturalist touch. Songs like “Love Is All” or “The Gardener,” while gaining tens of millions of steams on folky playlists, pack quite a punch, often detailing how the cold cruelty of the animal kingdom filters into human life with its many frailties. In 2019, Matsson found his marriage to a fellow Swedish singer-songwriter ending and he holed up in his Brooklyn apartment to write, produce and engineer his newest Tallest Man On Earth LP, 'I Love You. It's A Fever Dream.' Like Springsteen's eerie and emotional 'Nebraska,' Matsson's collection is a clear-eyed view of our current state of interpersonal (and even societal) isolations. Standout songs like the warm guitar and echoey harmonica opener “Hotel Bar” - though written before he knew what would happen with our current pandemic - seem to capture the lost closeness and romance of our very recent past, where one could fall in love with a new stranger every night in a new town and think nothing of it. Sequestered in a small house in the middle of Sweden since the world shifted last year, a new Tallest Man On Earth album is sure to be on its way. Admittedly Matsson is going a bit stir-crazy away from the road, but really he's grateful to be able to have the time to explore and create new sounds without any distractions. A fall tour of the states is in the works (fingers crossed), including an opening slot at Red Rocks joining Mandolin Orange and Bonny Light Horseman.

COVID Sequestered MentalityDr. Jordan Tishler comments on the maladies we are facing as we are confined into limited exposure due to the Corona Virus outbreak.Business Shift to Marijuana OnlineRussel Brunson is CEO & Founder of ClickFunnels, a website and sales funnel builder for entrepreneurs.  In the business slowdown and social distancing now imposed by COVID-19, marijuana businesses and dispensaries are looking to conduct more business online.Cannabis Business Deductions?Morgan Fox is the Media Relations Director of the National Cannabis Industry Association.  He talks about the 280E tax code that prevents the cannabis industry for deducting normal business expenses like every other business.Social Distance - Virtual Union: Cyber ConferencingJess Tyler is Vice-President of Events at Marijuana Business Daily. However, social distancing now forbids such a gathering.  As a conference planner, Jess Tyler was tasked with converting their plans to a virtual meeting, so she arranged a cyber conference instead.Find more at: https://w420radionetwork.com/s2-e19-covid-sequestered-mentality-marijuana-online-cannabis-business-deductions-social-distance-virtual-union/

In today's episode I'm looking through some fascinating information on Medieval embroidery worked in nunneries and monasteries, the providers of an honourable profession for highly born women along with those with a true passion and calling for the religious life.  

4c gets back at it with the NFL Virtual Draft one week away and the dearth of rumors. He explains why keeping Sammy Watkins is a mistake for the Kansas City Chiefs and why not signing Cam Newton is for the Denver Broncos. Full breakdown of FA and Draft QBs. How Tom Brady's interview with Howard Stern shows why he signed with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Nov/Dec MLB postseason would be sweet for the sport.

Ryan and five of his peers were selected to participate in an out-of-the-box experiment called, The Innovation Lab. Sequestered away from the rest of the organization, the team was responsible for researching umbilical cord blood donation and seeing how it can help with blood marrow registry and research objectives. Ryan's team was tasked with a problem-- not with solving it, but rather with developing recommendations for how to address the problem so that the company could fix it. The experiment was a success. Ryan talks to Bruce Holoubek, owner of Contracted Leadership, and Host of The Development Exponent Podcast to provide us with the organizational and developmental perspectives and insights from that experiment. If your organization is looking to initiate an innovation project or lab, it helps to use a successful example for support. Here we unbox this out-of-the-box experiment to pick the pearls out of lessons learned. Measure Success When starting something not done before, the first measure of success has to be, does this actually work? For example, in starting an Innovation Lab, pulling a group of people who didn't know each other to go offsite to work on a problem that was new, was in itself an unsure venture. To gather these diverse individuals who had one thing in common-- and ability to think and approach problems differently, and have them work well together, closely and for extended time, is in itself a success. Another measure of success was having a copious package to bring to leadership at the end of the experiment and having them applaud the team. Although there can be many measurements of success, primarily we have to ask, can the team function, and can we deliver? Anticipate Anxiety When initiating a project, volunteers are excited by the prospect of doing something new, but they don't often have the specifics on what exactly they will be doing. The excitement can quickly turn into anxiety-- two feelings that are on the same end of the energy spectrum, yet the latter carries detrimental effects. Also, for several reasons a major fear of many successful professionals is to have to step away from their regular role. It comes from the worry that they will be replaced, that their boss will see the job can be done without them, that their job is not as important to the organization as they previously thought, or that their progress and role reputation will be ruined by a less-qualified stand-in. Remember to include the rest of the organization in progress updates. Healthy organizations create a feeling of investment in their employees, so success and failure isn't just shared between the team and leadership. Everyone in the organization should feel connected to what's developing. One way to do this is to internally share short videos or clips of the team working on something as they talk about what they expect the outcome to be, and sharing why they are excited. Transparency builds trust and alleviates anxiety. Make it Work For a truly innovative approach and fresh ideas, start by picking your team from across the organization: Have someone from marketing, finance, tech, HR, data, etc.. Make your team equally female and male. Have cultural diversity. Provide access to subject matter experts Have team-building conversations In team building, appreciate the excitement that everyone feels to come from their niche and be picked to work on a completely different project. Team members should feel as experts asked to share their niche knowledge. Illustrate that the team acts as one brain. Then ask the team members to share how and when they work best-- ask them to be vulnerable-- but begin by being vulnerable yourself to help them open up about needs or dislikes, and quirks. There are also personal issues that affect work, so encourage team members to check in with one another to identify pain points and obstacles. We don't have to over-share, but we do need to stay tuned in to give support and ensure the strength of each link of the chain. Learn Did the offsite location work? Did climate affect how people were able to work? Did we use the best methods for sharing and collaborating? Did we offer accessibility and convenience to our team? What other things can we take into consideration for next time? Have your team weigh in on the unique experience of being on the project. Then, check in with each person to see how this experience shaped or affected their outlook on their permanent role. Do they now wish to make a shift? Are they more sure now they want to stay where they are at? How have they grown and how can they contribute their newly developed skills into the organization.You've opened the box, use the treasures effectively! Tweet This / LinkedIn That Although there can be many measurements of success, primarily we have to ask, can the team function, and can we deliver? #levelupyourleadership #leadership #contractleaders Anticipate anxiety: when employees are attempting innovative projects they are entering the unknown. They begin with excitement but excitement can quickly turn into anxiety. #levelupyourleadership #leadership #contractleaders Transparency builds trust and alleviates anxiety. #levelupyourleadership #leadership #contractleaders Everyone in the organization should feel connected to what's developing. One way to do this is to internally share short videos or clips of the team working on something as they talk about what they expect the outcome to be, and sharing why they are excited. #levelupyourleadership #leadership #contractleaders For any project, to create an innovative team, start by picking your team from across the organization: 1. Have someone from marketing, finance, tech, HR, data, etc.. 2. Make your team equally female and male. 3. Have cultural diversity. 4. Have team-building conversations 5. Provide access to subject matter experts and research. #levelupyourleadership #leadership #contractleaders Have your team members weigh in on the unique experience of being on the project. See how this experience shaped their outlook on their permanent role. Do they now wish to make a shift? How have they grown and how can they contribute their newly developed skills into the organization? #levelupyourleadership #leadership #contractleaders

Don't you love those folks in your organization who ask, “How high?” when you say “Jump?” You know the type, we often refer to them as a “Yes Person.” Wouldn't it be nice if your entire organization was filled with yes people? Not so fast! What if you are missing a key piece of leadership development by turning everyone into a yes person? On this episode, you'll hear from my guest, Ryan Peña.  Ryan is an Innovation Lab Specialist for Be The Match; a non-profit organization focused on bone marrow registry and research. As a part of the Innovation Lab, Ryan works with a multi-disciplinary team created specifically to solve an existing problem or realize a new opportunity.  In our conversation, Ryan talks about the amazing work they do at Be The Match, what the process is like to become a bone marrow donor, how they develop leaders in the organization, why he volunteered to work with the Innovation Lab, challenges he faces as a leader, and much more. I hope that many of you are moved by life-saving efforts that Ryan and Be The Match work toward. What is Be The Match? When most people hear about bone marrow donation they cringe, it sounds so scary and serious! Over the years, TV shows, movies, and other media have focused on the invasive and intimidating aspects of bone marrow donation. Did you know that the process has changed? These days, to get on the national bone marrow registry, all you have to do is use a kit to swab the inside of your cheek and send it in, it's that easy! Be The Match, which is a government funded non-profit will then place your record in their registry until they find someone who matches and needs a bone marrow transplant. Then they'll contact you, ask for your permission, and then you'll start the donation process. Even the donation process has become less scary as technology has advanced. Most donors won't need to go in for an invasive operation. Eighty percent of the time, donors will simply need to donate through a blood plasma donation type of a process. To learn more about Be The Match and their life-saving work, make sure to check out the link to their site located in the resources section at the end of this post. Why experiments like the Innovation Lab are so valuable. When was the last time you asked your people to think outside of the box? Do you look for ways to inspire and empower people in your organization or do you just want a bunch of yes people? At Be The Match, Ryan Peña was selected along with five of his peers to participate in an out of the box type of experiment called the Innovation Lab. Sequestered away from the rest of the organization, Ryan and his team were tasked with the objective of researching umbilical cord blood donation and how it can help with their blood marrow registry and research objectives. This unique experiment took Ryan and his peers away from the hustle and bustle of their day to day responsibilities in the organization with the goal of tackling something they've never done before. What lessons can you learn from Be The Match's experiment with their Innovation Lab? Does your organization need more Yes People? Every organization has yes people in their ranks, but are yes people always the best people for the job? What if there was a way to encourage and empower your people to fall in line as yes people when necessary but to speak out and provide constructive feedback when it is appropriate? Speaking as a former yes man, Ryan Peña encourages leaders to teach their people to speak up and question tasks and assignments in a positive way. He sees this aspect of leadership development as crucial for an organization to remain healthy and innovative. While it may sound easier to have a room filled with yes people, the truth is, that approach stifles innovation, experimentation, and ultimately growth. One way to break out of the norm and encourage your people to think critically is to tell them that the next time they are given a task, they have your permission and your endorsement to ask why. It may sound simple, but this small step will show your people that you want to hear from them, you want to get them on board and be part of what your organization is trying to accomplish. Action steps you can take. What are you waiting for? Are you going to take action on the information you've received or will you just sit on it and let it collect dust on the shelf? Thankfully, Ryan Peña was kind enough to provide three takeaways that leaders like you can use to take action today.  Challenge yourself to take a step back from your current style of leadership. Choose your words wisely; you never know how you'll impact others. Learn from your surroundings. Cultivate relationships with people in your team.  I'd love to hear which action step you took with the information that Ryan covered in our conversation. I know that some aspect of what Ryan shared will resonate with leaders who are committed to improve and help their people to do the same. Outline of This Episode [1:15] I introduce my guest, Ryan Peña. [3:00] What is Be The Match? [6:00] When did the technology become available to use swab kits instead of blood tests? What does the donation process look like? [16:30] Ryan talks about developing leaders and helping them connect with the vision of the organization. [20:00] How did Be The Match roll out their “Innovation Lab?” [28:00] What are the two challenges that Ryan faces as a leader? [34:45] Why is someone a “Yes person?” [37:15] Three takeaways from Ryan that you can start acting on. [40:50] Closing thoughts. Connect with Ryan Peña Be The Match Ryan on LinkedIn Ryan on Twitter Connect With Bruce www.ContractedLeadership.com Facebook LinkedIn Twitter Subscribe to The Development Exponent on Apple Podcasts or Stitcher Audio Production and Show notes by PODCAST FAST TRACK https://www.podcastfasttrack.com

Starling Tribune - Season 4 Edition – Monument Point (A CW Network Arrow Television Show Fan Podcast)   The Official Arrow Podcast of the Gonna Geek Network   Transcript:         http://transcripts.foreverdreaming.org/viewtopic.php?f=172&t=27129 Episode:            “Monument Point” [Season 4 Episode 21] Air Date:           Wednesday, May 11th, 2016 Director:           Kevin Tancharoen 1st Arrow | 2 Flash| 6 Agents of SHIELD | 19 Mortal Combat | 1 Twelve Monkeys | 1 Supergirl | 8 Sequestered... Writers: Speed Weed 23 Ep Arrow Co-Exec Prod | 4 Ep Arrow | Haven, Law & Order SVU, NCIS... Jenny Lynn 1st Ep Arrow (Congrats!!) | 2 Privileged | 1 Day Break | 2 Point Pleasant IMDB:   http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4862556/?ref_=tt_ep_nx Promo: http://www.comicbookmovie.com/dc_tv/arrow/new-clip-from-arrow-season-4-episode-21-monument-point-a141545   - The name of the episode is clearly a reference to the nuked place - The theme of the episode should have been “Daddy issues” - Were the fighting moves practical or just for effect? - #staightupkickadude - #deadpoliticalconsultantbootycallinterndude - Could we have done without the flashbacks this episode? - Baron Reiter has pretty cook powers - How is the idol going to fully effect Taiana - ALL THE VILLIANS - Clipboard skills are necessary in the new order - Did Felicity make the right call? - The reporters run down the Pop Culture Easter Eggs in the episode - Arrow News, Feedback and comments from the chat - Thank you for downloading and listening!   EPISODE DC EASTER EGGS:   Season 4 Episode 21 “Monument Point” (Date: xx May 2016) Article: http://comicbook.com/2016/05/12/arrow-monument-point-easter-eggs-map-the-dc-universe/   During his time writing Justice Society of America, Arrow showrunner Marc Guggenheim created both Monument Point and its suburb of Havencroft, the town he wiped off the map in tonight's episode of Arrow PLUS: Markovia and Corto Maltese were referenced   ARROW NEWS:   Kevin Smith says he's interested in writing for Arrow  (Date: 11 May 2016) "I would love to jump in for a one or two episode arc just to bring the Onomatopoeia character to life. That would be so badass.” Link: http://www.comicbookresources.com/article/kevin-smith-says-hes-interested-in-writing-for-arrow   No Return for Laurel says Stephen Amell  (Date: 07 May 2016) During a sit-down with "Larry King Now," asked whether he knew the last words uttered by Lance -- Amell said that while he does know what she said, it will remain a surprise, per the wishes of Greg Berlanti. When King followed up by asking "Any chance she'll come back from the dead?" Amell responded with a simple "No." Link: http://www.comicbookresources.com/article/arrow-star-stephen-amell-no-resurrection-on-the-horizon-for-laurel-lance   S04 Will Likely end on a cliffhanger  (Date: 10 May 2016) More from the Larry King interview: asked to describe the episode in three words. Amell gave a cryptic reply, “Where'd everybody go?” Link: http://comicbook.com/2016/05/06/stephen-amell-says-arrow-season-4-finale-will-have-everyone-aski/   S04 Finale Titled “Schism” May complete a “Soft Reboot” (Date: 11 May 2016) Mericle calls the title of the finale, titled “Schism,” a “good clue”: “We talked about Season 4 as a soft reboot and I think Season 5 will see some big changes on the show.” Link: http://collider.com/arrow-season-4-finale-season-5-villain/   OpEd: DC has a rare opportunity for a shared universe (Date: 12 May 2016) This is the true magic of shared universes: Something BIG happens in Show A, so Shows B, C, and D must adapt … DC has a rare opportunity that Marvel doesn't: They occupy the week. Mondays belong to Supergirl, Tuesdays for The Flash, Arrow has Wednesdays, and Legends of Tomorrow dominate Thursdays. That's four days in the week for one massive story following the events of Monument Point. Link: https://www.inverse.com/article/15584-arrow-just-made-a-case-for-dc-s-tv-universe-needing-its-own-civil-war   ARROW CAST & CREW INTERVIEWS   Supergirl S02 Renewed & confirmed to move to CW!!! (Date: 12 May 2016) Description Link: http://variety.com/2016/tv/news/supergirl-the-cw-season-2-1201773032/   Greg Berlanti confirms involvement in Booster Gold  (Date: 12 May 2016) The Flash and Supergirl executive producer Greg Berlanti has confirmed rumors that he is currently involved in developing a feature film based on DC Comics superhero Booster Gold. Link: http://comicbook.com/2016/05/12/the-flashs-berlanti-confirms-involvement-in-booster-gold-movie/   GREEN ARROW COMICS & TOY NEWS   YES!! Green Arrow Vol 5 : Black Arrow by Mike Grell  (Date: 10 May 2016) When Oliver is manipulated into betraying his country, he soon finds himself at the top of the FBI's Most Wanted list. Alone and on the run, Ollie is forced to track down the one person who can clear his name-the man who set him up in the first place. But what he'll do once he finds him is unclear. The Green Arrow has always been a hunter, but is he also a killer? Collects #29-38 of the classic series from 1988. Link: https://www.comixology.com/Green-Arrow-1988-1998-Vol-5-Black-Arrow/digital-comic/371669?ref=c2l0ZS9pbmRleC9kZXNrdG9wL3NsaWRlckxpc3QvMTExNjM   FEEDBACK:   Voicemail – Black Adam   NEXT EPISODE   Promo for Next Week: Episode 22 - “Lost in the Flood” (Date: xx May 2015) Article: http://www.comicbookmovie.com/dc_tv/arrow/new-extended-promo-for-arrow-season-4-episode-22-lost-in-the-flood-a141582 Episode:            “Lost in the Flood” [Season 4 Episode 22] Air Date:           Wednesday, May 18, 2016 Summary:         Following the shocking events in the previous episode, Oliver and Diggle race to rescue Thea, while Felicity, Curtis and Noah join together to stop Darhk. Director:           Glen Winter Writers: Brian Ford Sullivan George Papp IMDB:   http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4862558/fullcredits?ref_=tt_ov_wr#writers Tune in to see what the Starling Tribune crew thinks will happen this season on Arrow based off what we've seen so far. After the show wraps keep listening as we bring fans on the show discuss their theories for season 4.   If you missed us live catch us next time and chime in yourself! Plus you won't miss out on our live post-show conversations.   Join The Starling Tribune each week as we stream live on Thursday nights at 9:00 PM eastern or 8:00 PM Central at gonnageek.com/live. Join the fun chatroom and interact with the hosts live. Contact us: @StarlingTribune - starlingtribune@gmail.com - www.starlingtribune.com - www.facebook.com/starlingtribune - 612-888-CAVE or 612-888-2283.   Starling Tribune is proud to be a member of the GonnaGeek network found at GonnaGeek.com. For more geeky podcast visit GonnaGeek.com.   You can find us on iTunes under ''Starling Tribune." We are very thankful for all of our positive iTunes reviews. You can find all our contact information here on the Network page of GonnaGeek.com Our complete archive is always available at www.starlingtribune.com   This podcast was recorded Thursday May 12th, 2016.   Thank you for listening and we hope you enjoyed the show!

With the spotlight on U.S. budget cuts a timely book looks at the unique nature of the country's debt and the options available to avoid hitting the debt ceiling. Is U.S. Government Debt Different? -- a collection of 15 articles published by the Wharton Financial Institutions Center -- is co-edited by Wharton finance professor Franklin Allen who shares insights from the book with Knowledge at Wharton. (Video with transcript) See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Once more, unto The Bacon, dear friends! Still flying in missing Pig formation, this episode of the Film Pigs Podcast focuses on Todd Robert Anderson's terrible mental illness: his obsession with collecting DVDs and Blu-rays. Sequestered in a room lined with shelves of plastic discs, Skelton pulls 12 random movies and demands Todd explain himself before it's too late. It's kind of like Intervention, but very lazy and nothing is really accomplished.