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On the shore of Utah's Great Salt Lake sits a concert venue with a strange problem: it seems to have inherited more than a century of history that didn't actually happen there. The original Saltair burned. Its replacement burned, burned again, and was eventually destroyed by arson. The third Saltair was built a mile away—then the lake rose and flooded it. Today, employees report phantom footsteps, children laughing in empty rooms, a woman staring across the salt flats, and a uniformed man watching from an upper railing. But Saltair's strangest story belongs to a twenty-year-old woman whose remains were discovered nearby in 2000. For twelve years she was known only as Saltair Sally, until investigators realized that her extraordinarily long hair had been quietly recording where she'd lived. Tonight, we explore the monsters, ghosts, fires and strange history of the Great Salt Lake... and how science finally gave Saltair Sally her real name: Nikole Kristina Bakoles. YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/@HauntedAmericanHistoryTikTok - @hah_podcasthauntedamericanhistory.comPatreon- ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.patreon.com/hauntedamericanhistory⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠HAH DISCORD - https://discord.com/invite/bJdbpH3hQm Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Nothing says summer like a day at the beach. Whether you're lounging by a lake or enjoying a seaside vacation, listen to this episode to learn five things you can do to share the shore with birds. BirdNote is supported by Jim and Birte Falconer of Seattle, Washington — and generous listeners around the world.  More info and transcript at BirdNote.org. Want more BirdNote? Subscribe to our weekly newsletter. Sign up for BirdNote+ to get ad-free listening and other perks.  BirdNote is a nonprofit. Your tax-deductible gift makes these shows possible. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

For many Minnesotans, there are several State Fair staples. Maybe it's Sweet Martha's, or the giant slide. Or maybe it's seeing the butter sculptures. Over the past several years, the crop art exhibit has joined the list of must-see attractions. Marta Shore is the woman behind putting the contest and exhibit together, as the crop art and scarecrow assistant superintendent.Shore spoke to Minnesota Now host Nina Moini at the MPR stage.

There's a video online of a room full of exhausted diplomats breaking into applause after nearly 20 years of work. One woman brings down the gavel and says, "the ship has reached the shore." That moment, in March 2023, closed out a negotiation that had already failed once in public. It became binding international law this year, and the fight over what it actually protects is happening right now. In this episode, Andrew traces the full history of the High Seas Treaty, formally the BBNJ Agreement (Biodiversity Beyond National Jurisdiction): from the idea first raised at a UN Oceans working session in 2004, through nine years of debating whether a treaty was even needed, to the failed 2022 negotiating session, to the breakthrough text agreed in March 2023. He breaks down the treaty's four pillars, benefit-sharing from marine genetic resources, marine protected areas in international waters, environmental impact assessments for new high seas activity, and capacity building for coastal nations that can't afford their own deep-sea research fleets, and explains why each one was a genuine sticking point between countries. The treaty entered into force on January 17, 2026, making it binding law rather than a symbolic milestone. Roughly two thirds of the ocean lies beyond any single country's jurisdiction, and before this treaty, less than one percent of that area had any form of protection. Ratifications are still climbing, the first Conference of the Parties is expected in January 2027, and a long list of unresolved questions, from secretariat hosting to how marine protected areas actually get designated, will get fought out there. It's not a perfect treaty. It's a beginning. Takeaways: The High Seas Treaty (BBNJ) took roughly 20 years to negotiate, including a public failure at the fifth negotiating session in August 2022. Agreement on the treaty text was reached March 4, 2023, after a marathon final session; it was formally adopted June 19, 2023. The treaty rests on four pillars: marine genetic resource benefit-sharing, marine protected areas in international waters, environmental impact assessments, and capacity building/technology transfer. It needed 60 ratifications to take effect. Morocco became the 60th ratifying country on September 19, 2025. The treaty entered into force January 17, 2026, and now covers roughly two thirds of the ocean that previously had almost no protection. The first Conference of the Parties (COP1) is expected in January 2027, where major unresolved issues get decided. Support Independent Podcasts: https://www.speakupforblue.com/patreon Need help with your ocean non-profit, company, or project? Get the help you need with Pisces Oceans Inc.: https://www.piscesoceans.ca Connect with Speak Up For Blue Website: https://bit.ly/3fOF3Wf Instagram: https://bit.ly/3rIaJSG TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@speakupforblue Twitter: https://bit.ly/3rHZxpc YouTube: www.speakupforblue.com/youtube  

12 - Dom's down the shore and he can't believe El-Sayed in Michigan's crazy rhetoric! 1215 - Side - all time ending 1220 - Your calls. 1230 - Kim Ward, President pro tempore of the Senate of Pennsylvania, is here this afternoon. What does she think of Josh Shapiro's flip-flopping on AI and data centers in PA? What is her sense on the public's view on the matter? 1250 - Wrapping up with your calls. 1 - United States Administrator of the Small Business Administration, Kelly Loeffler, is here this afternoon. Why is she in Philadelphia? How hard is it to keep track of the “shuttered venues grant” abusers? How has no tax on tips helped out restaurant businesses? What is DIBX? What gets in the way of prioritizing making medical supplies? 110 - More calls. 120 - Continuing with your calls. 130 - How about those Phillies, Dr. Coates? Dr. Victoria Coates joins us on a Tuesday instead of her usual Friday. Is the Iranian economy able to withstand this war? What will Trump do to sanction China and Iran? Will it happen before the midterms? What else is happening across the globe? 150 - What is Josh Shapiro's grand plan for vaccines in PA? 155 - Your calls. 2 - What on earth is El-Sayed campaigning on in Michigan? 210 - Your calls. 215 - Dom's Money Melody! 225 - RIP to a legend, and titan of music Dolly Parton. More calls. 235 - Julie Hartman, U.S. Department of Education Office of Communications and Outreach and Senior Adviser, joins us here today. Is our current schooling model putting students first? What does it say about a state like Mississippi having a complete turnaround in education after school choice was implemented? 240 - Continued callers. 250 - The Lightning Round!

Our 2026 Listener Story competition continues with five more incredible listener-made pieces. In this Silver collection, you'll hear the surprising craft behind mechanical keyboards, the natural sounds hidden in Indian ragas, and how learning a new language can transform noise into belonging.Twenty Thousand Hertz is produced by Defacto Sound.Subscribe on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠YouTube⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ to see our video series.Follow Dallas on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠TikTok⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, ⁠⁠Facebook⁠⁠, and ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠LinkedIn⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.If you know what this week's mystery sound is, tell us at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠mystery.20k.org⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.Support the show and get ad-free episodes at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠20k.org/plus⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.Listener Links: Hear Leonardo Barrios' music under the name Bardø on Spotify. Learn about Ross Maddox's work testing the hearing of babies at maddoxlab.org. Explore Nathaniel Harrison's work with Shore 3 Studios. Hear Vicki Hansen's music under the name Indiajiva on Youtube and Spotify. Try NetSuite Next for free at netsuite.ai/20k.Shopify: Own your customer relationships. Own your revenue. Start with a free trial at shopify.com/20k

Customers of the meal kit company Blue Apron have been complaining about canceled orders, missing ingredients and incomplete recipes. The company even acknowledged in a social media post that "recent orders have fallen short." What's behind this mess? WSJ's Sarah Nassauer breaks down the chaos at Blue Apron. Imani Moise hosts. Further Listening: - Jersey Mike's Journey From the Shore to Wall Street - What's Going On With Lettuce? Sign up for WSJ's free What's News newsletter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Almost three weeks out from major surgery, Snooki joins us post-op to give the full inside scoop on having a hysterectomy and the reality behind recovery. Snooki has learned through her “hyster-sister” community that major surgery requires major downtime, what was initially understood as a two-week healing period is actually two months. Bestie breaks down the truth from having her organs rearranged to never having her period again. Meanwhile, Joey gives us a life update from Piki’s second birthday to his new favorite drink of the summer. While Joey has been sipping wine, Snooki is officially completing her first dry month. What better reward is there post-surgery recovery than a dry martini? As ‘Jersey Shore: Family Vacation’ is coming to its close, Snooki talks ending speculation and TikTok easter eggs. It’s been 15 years of growing up on the Shore, are we really ready to say goodbye to what started it all? Speaking of TV, Snooki and Joey catch us up on their latest binges from Hulu’s ‘The Shards’ to Emmy Rossum’s new ‘Furious.’ Did we forget to mention that Joey is premiering on Hulu? We’re leveling up! And in the world of celebrity, all of us experienced a great loss in Hayden Panettiere, the woman we all grew up with and who stood up for all women as she herself experienced postpartum depression, trauma, and grief. A hero on and off the screen, Snooki and Joey remember their dear friend and all her kindnesses. We love you Hayden, rest in peace our Ice Princess and Queen. Volume See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Costco pays its hourly wage workers more than most retailers. The company says that this keeps turnover low and ultimately, is good for its business. WSJ's Sarah Nassauer explains how this approach helps the company's bottom line, and speaks to one Costco cashier who's been working there for 40 years and now has more than a million dollars saved for his retirement. Jessica Mendoza hosts. Further Listening: - Jersey Mike's Journey From the Shore to Wall Street  - How IKEA Is Keeping Its Furniture Affordable Sign up for WSJ's free What's News newsletter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Beloved author and winner of The Story Prize, Paul Yoon, is back with the unforgettable story of a working dog, Etna, who, after a devastating war, embarks on an odyssey in the hopes of returning home.Set in a fictional country in the present day, this is a story told through the eyes of an ex-military dog, Etna. After surviving years of a devastating war, Etna decides one night to leave the men he has fought alongside for years and return home—to the place where he was taken from when he was young, in the thin but persistent hope that if a home exists for him, it might be there.Thus begins an exhilarating odyssey told through the eyes of a dog as he traverses across ruined landscapes and fights to survive in a world that, even in peacetime, proves to be just as precarious. Along the way, he encounters other animals and humans who are attempting to figure out how to start again. What makes a life when there is no home to go back to? How do we begin to trust each other again after such profound loss?Etna (Scribner, 2026) is a novel about the power of an idea, about never giving up, and ultimately a novel about finding hope in the most dire of times. Paul Yoon is the author of five previous works of fiction: Once the Shore, a New York Times notable book; Snow Hunters, winner of the Young Lions Fiction Award; The Mountain, an NPR Best Book of the Year; Run to Earth, a Time Must-Read Book of 2020 also longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction; and The Hive and the Honey, winner of the 20th annual Story Prize and longlisted for the Joyce Carol Oates Prize. Recommended Books: Maria Stepanova, The Disappearing Act Johnathan Buckley, One Boat Chris Holmes is Chair of Literatures in English and Professor at Ithaca College. He writes criticism on contemporary global literatures. His book, Kazuo Ishiguro Against World Literature, is published with Bloomsbury Publishing. He is the co-director of The New Voices Festival, a celebration of work in poetry, prose, and playwriting by up-and-coming young writers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Beloved author and winner of The Story Prize, Paul Yoon, is back with the unforgettable story of a working dog, Etna, who, after a devastating war, embarks on an odyssey in the hopes of returning home.Set in a fictional country in the present day, this is a story told through the eyes of an ex-military dog, Etna. After surviving years of a devastating war, Etna decides one night to leave the men he has fought alongside for years and return home—to the place where he was taken from when he was young, in the thin but persistent hope that if a home exists for him, it might be there.Thus begins an exhilarating odyssey told through the eyes of a dog as he traverses across ruined landscapes and fights to survive in a world that, even in peacetime, proves to be just as precarious. Along the way, he encounters other animals and humans who are attempting to figure out how to start again. What makes a life when there is no home to go back to? How do we begin to trust each other again after such profound loss?Etna (Scribner, 2026) is a novel about the power of an idea, about never giving up, and ultimately a novel about finding hope in the most dire of times. Paul Yoon is the author of five previous works of fiction: Once the Shore, a New York Times notable book; Snow Hunters, winner of the Young Lions Fiction Award; The Mountain, an NPR Best Book of the Year; Run to Earth, a Time Must-Read Book of 2020 also longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction; and The Hive and the Honey, winner of the 20th annual Story Prize and longlisted for the Joyce Carol Oates Prize. Recommended Books: Maria Stepanova, The Disappearing Act Johnathan Buckley, One Boat Chris Holmes is Chair of Literatures in English and Professor at Ithaca College. He writes criticism on contemporary global literatures. His book, Kazuo Ishiguro Against World Literature, is published with Bloomsbury Publishing. He is the co-director of The New Voices Festival, a celebration of work in poetry, prose, and playwriting by up-and-coming young writers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/literature

Jake Newby is the author of the Concrete Avalanche Substack, which covers the best music coming out of China. If you enjoy this playlist, check out Jake's sets from 2025, 2024, and 2023, as well as his Chinese shoegaze feature. Tracklist: 1. ‘Undercurrent' — Pu Poo Platter — from Undercurrent 2. ‘忧郁干杯乐园' — the three mice — from where is my mice? 3. ‘错过的提醒' — Lygort Quartet — from Through Voodoo Light to Shore of Tomorrow 4. ‘B1' — gogoj aka Sheng Jie + Deng Boyu — from HEH 5. ‘心的傾訴 Jürêk tolƣawe (Unbosom Myself)' —Mamer — from Bar xatteƣem, Bar ⱪayƣem (All the Joys, All the Pains) 6. ‘没东西可掏 The Well Is Dry' — Zhang 'NoNo' Xingchan 张醒婵 — from Catch My Boomerang 7. ‘Gaia's Breath' — Wu Zhuoling 吴卓玲 — from Uncharted II 8. ‘the one sounds like sweet trip' — Cassette Player Romance — from Meaning of Home 9. ‘黑天鵝(feat. LukeDaPlaya)' — Guo Yinan 鍋一楠 and Yuan 猿 — from The Vortex Reconstruction Experiment 10. ‘Extinguished City' — DEADTREES — from New World 11. ‘让我飞吧' — Lie 劣 — from Landfill For more information on each of these artists, check out the full write-up on Substack. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jake Newby is the author of the Concrete Avalanche Substack, which covers the best music coming out of China. If you enjoy this playlist, check out Jake's sets from 2025, 2024, and 2023, as well as his Chinese shoegaze feature. Tracklist: 1. ‘Undercurrent' — Pu Poo Platter — from Undercurrent 2. ‘忧郁干杯乐园' — the three mice — from where is my mice? 3. ‘错过的提醒' — Lygort Quartet — from Through Voodoo Light to Shore of Tomorrow 4. ‘B1' — gogoj aka Sheng Jie + Deng Boyu — from HEH 5. ‘心的傾訴 Jürêk tolƣawe (Unbosom Myself)' —Mamer — from Bar xatteƣem, Bar ⱪayƣem (All the Joys, All the Pains) 6. ‘没东西可掏 The Well Is Dry' — Zhang 'NoNo' Xingchan 张醒婵 — from Catch My Boomerang 7. ‘Gaia's Breath' — Wu Zhuoling 吴卓玲 — from Uncharted II 8. ‘the one sounds like sweet trip' — Cassette Player Romance — from Meaning of Home 9. ‘黑天鵝(feat. LukeDaPlaya)' — Guo Yinan 鍋一楠 and Yuan 猿 — from The Vortex Reconstruction Experiment 10. ‘Extinguished City' — DEADTREES — from New World 11. ‘让我飞吧' — Lie 劣 — from Landfill For more information on each of these artists, check out the full write-up on Substack. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

WBS: A Pontoon to Shore #374 -- The gang is at it again. Brimstone is joined by his wing-man Alex DaPonte, his wife Danielle as they chat about Brim's disastrous trip to Florida, not to trust Priceline, and how Priceless Rental cars are a scam. They chat about how Brimstone was recognized near the monorail at Disney, how the people were loud about it, and how he needed to be extracted by Disney staff because it was such a huge commotion. They discuss him being taken across the lake at isney in a private pontoon, how much it rains in Florida, and how you can catch Brimstone on Jim Cummings podcast via YouTube. Brim explains what gets Within Brim's Skin.

John Allen Chau spent years preparing for one mission: reach the Sentinelese — the world's most isolated tribe, on an island India has forbidden outsiders from entering since 1956 — and share the Christian gospel with them. He trained as a missionary, learned linguistics, made four prep trips to the Andaman Islands, and bribed local fishermen to ferry him close enough to kayak the rest of the way. Over three days, he approached the island multiple times — was shot at, fled, and came back. His 13-page journal, handed to the fishermen before his final swim to shore, documents every encounter in his own words. What happened after he walked up that beach, nobody knows — and nobody ever will. 00:00 Welcome to Disaster Strikes 00:45 A Forbidden Shore 02:29 Why This Story Matters 03:19 North Sentinel Island 09:00 Isolation and Disease Risk 11:24 Who Are the Sentinelese 14:50 John Chau Background 18:14 Mission Planning and Motives 21:05 First Contact Attempts 23:46 Final Swim and Unknowns 25:54 Aftermath and Polarized Reactions 27:42 Legal Fallout and Reflections 29:56 A Modern Parallel Case 31:49 2025 Danger Tourist 32:55 Closing Thoughts and Outro Listen AD FREE: Support our podcast at patreaon: http://patreon.com/TheCruxTrueSurvivalPodcast Email us! thecruxsurvival@gmail.com Instagram https://www.instagram.com/thecruxpodcast/ Get schooled by Julie in outdoor wilderness medicine! https://www.headwatersfieldmedicine.com/ Key references- John Allen Chau personal journal, 13 pages, November 2018 — shared with The Washington Postby Lynda Adams-Chau Dependra Pathak, Director General of Police, Andaman and Nicobar Islands — official press release, November 21, 2018 The Washington Post— Joanna Slater and Niha Masih, November–December 2018 Outside Magazine— "The Last Days of John Allen Chau," Daniel Grushkin, January 2026 Smithsonian Magazine— "Inside the Story of John Allen Chau's Ill-Fated Trip to a Remote Island," December 2018 Time Magazine— "Journal Reveals Last Days of Man Killed By Isolated Tribe," November 2018 CNN— "North Sentinel Island: US missionary's diary reveals last days," November 2018 ABC News— "John Allen Chau detailed efforts to convert islanders," November 2018 Slate— "Why missionary John Allen Chau's death is so unsettling to Christians," December 2018 The Guardian / The Observer— Patrick Chau interview, February 2019 National Geographic— "Meet the first woman to contact the Sentinelese" Survival International — statements on Sentinelese disease vulnerability, November–December 2018 Nature(Humanities and Social Sciences Communications) — "Sentinelese contacts: anthropologically revisiting…," November 2024 Andaman and Nicobar Islands Protection of Aboriginal Tribes Regulation, 1956 — Government of India Wikipedia — "John Allen Chau" (citing Outside, Washington Post, Indian police records) Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

AP's Lisa Dwyer reports on an increase in stingray stings in California.

Listen to 2 hours of ocean waves gently reaching the shore and flowing back into the sea. The steady rise and fall of the water creates a natural sound for sleep, study, focus, and deep concentration. Let these relaxing ocean sounds cover distractions, calm busy thoughts, and bring a peaceful background to bedtime, reading, meditation, work, or quiet rest.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/asmr-rain-recordings--5347561/support.Lose the AD intros by becoming a subscriber!https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/asmr-rain-recordings--5347561/support

Experience the gentle flow of a peaceful stream meeting the Lake Michigan shore, perfect for deep sleep, meditation, and relaxation. Let these soothing ambient nature sounds melt away stress and create a calm atmosphere for focus and rest.

Alex from North Shore takes on Bode from Copperfield on Day 17 of The Suburb Summer Sizzler.

“The West Coast Warlord” Ryan Kross, one of the OG guests of Windy City Slam, returns to the show to talk all about this weekend's “War By The Shore event by SSW Entertainment at Kenosha's Historic Simmons Field. Kross discusses the entire lineup for the show, which features his son, Jordan, as SSW Unified Champion, going up against Chris Masters, plus the other former WWE stars on the show, including Kevin Thorn, Big Vito and Gene Snitsky, the makeover of the SSW roster in recent years with younger talent and an expanded women's division, watching Jordan develop in his career over the last few years, Kross' memories of watching Kenosha Twins game at Simmons Field, how much longer he might wrestle, hints on future SSW shows and more. Plus, Mike recaps local shows from Freelance Wrestling, Wrestle League and ARWPRO and previews cards from POWW Entertainment and C3 Ultimate Wrestling. Mike Pankow is a 25-year-plus professional journalist and wrestling superfan who covers local Chicagoland wrestling and national promotions like AEW and WWE. If there is something going on in Chicago, Mike knows about it. Enjoy “Wrestling, Chicago-Style” on The Broadcast Basement On-Demand Radio Network! Music by Jason Shaw on Audionautix.com. Get your local wrestling fix every Tuesday everywhere podcasts can be found and always at WindyCitySlam.com!

Fluent Fiction - Hebrew: Waves of Change: A Sibling Reunion on the Shimmering Shore Find the full episode transcript, vocabulary words, and more:fluentfiction.com/he/episode/2026-08-11-22-34-02-he Story Transcript:He: הים הלילית התמתח בחוף השקט.En: The nightly sea stretched out along the quiet shore.He: החול היה רך ונעים, והגלים נשמעו ברקע כמו מנגינה רכה.En: The sand was soft and pleasant, and the waves sounded in the background like a gentle melody.He: יונה, תמר ואליאור נפגשו לראשונה אחרי שנים שלא היו יחד.En: Yona, Tamar, and Elior met for the first time after years of not being together.He: יונה, האח הבכור, נשם עמוק.En: Yona, the eldest brother, took a deep breath.He: הוא רצה לאחד את המשפחה ולהשאיר זיכרון מתוק לפני שתמר, האחות הקטנה, תטוס ללמוד באוניברסיטה בחו"ל.En: He wanted to unite the family and leave behind a sweet memory before Tamar, the younger sister, would fly abroad to study at a university.He: תמר הסתכלה על הים בשקט, אך בפנים הסתירה סוד.En: Tamar looked at the sea quietly, but inside she was hiding a secret.He: היא ידעה שדרכה לאוניברסיטה עשויה להשתנות.En: She knew her path to the university might change.He: אליאור, האח האמצעי, השתוקק לעצמאות ולשבח והרגיש שקולו לא תמיד נשמע במשפחה.En: Elior, the middle brother, longed for independence and recognition, feeling that his voice was not always heard in the family.He: השיחה התחילה קלילה.En: The conversation started lightly.He: הם דיברו על זכרונות ילדות, צחקו, ונזכרו ברגעים יפים.En: They talked about childhood memories, laughed, and recalled beautiful moments.He: אבל האטמוספירה השתנתה כאשר תמר רצתה לדבר.En: But the atmosphere changed when Tamar wanted to speak.He: היא ידעה שזה הזמן לשתף.En: She knew it was the time to share.He: יונה הרגיש את המתח ועיניו פגשו את עיניה של תמר.En: Yona sensed the tension and his eyes met Tamar's.He: הוא פחד לפרוץ את האיזון אבל ידע שצריך להתמודד.En: He was afraid to upset the balance but knew they had to face it.He: "תמר, מה קורה?En: "Tamar, what's going on?"He: " שאל יונה, בתקווה שהשיחה תוביל להבנה.En: Yona asked, hoping the conversation would lead to understanding.He: תמר התלבטה, הסופי ביטאה את המילים: "אני לא נוסעת לאוניברסיטה שתכננו.En: Tamar hesitated, but finally expressed the words: "I am not going to the university we planned.He: החלטתי לעבור לאוניברסיטה אחרת.En: I've decided to attend another university."He: " הדברים נאמרו בעוצמה והדהדו בין גלי הים.En: The words were spoken with intensity and echoed between the sea waves.He: אליאור, שהופתע, הרגיש שהמילים פותחות פתח לשיחה הגדולה שאותה הוא רצה.En: Elior, who was surprised, felt the words opened the door to the big conversation he wanted.He: "ומה איתי?En: "And what about me?He: גם אני רוצה לעשות שינוי, להרגיש שאני מתנהל לפי דרכי.En: I also want to make a change, to feel that I am steering my own path."He: "שתיקה כבדה ירדה.En: A heavy silence fell.He: יונה הביט בשני אחיו הצעירים וידע שזה הזמן.En: Yona looked at his two younger siblings and knew it was time.He: הוא התקרב לתמר ואליאור והושיט יד.En: He moved closer to Tamar and Elior and extended a hand.He: "הכי חשוב זה שנדבר.En: "The most important thing is that we talk.He: שנבין אחד את השניה.En: That we understand each other.He: כל עוד אנחנו כאן, יש לנו את הכוח לשנות יחד.En: As long as we're here, we have the power to change together."He: "בשיחה שנמשכה שעות, תמר סיפרה על חששותיה, ואליאור על רצונותיו.En: In a conversation that lasted hours, Tamar shared her fears, and Elior his desires.He: לבסוף, החום והאהבה בין האחים גברו.En: In the end, the warmth and love among the siblings prevailed.He: הם הבינו אחד את השניה יותר ולמדו לתמוך בהחלטות הפרטיות.En: They understood each other better and learned to support each other's personal decisions.He: יונה חש הקלה.En: Yona felt relieved.He: בפעם הראשונה, הוא הרגיש שהוא לא חייב להחזיק את כל האחריות.En: For the first time, he felt he didn't have to hold all the responsibility.He: הוא התחיל ללמוד לשחרר ולהאמין באחים שלו.En: He began to learn to let go and trust his siblings.He: החוף התעטף באור הירח, ובין הגלים נשמעו צחוקים והבטחות.En: The shore was enveloped in moonlight, and among the waves, laughter and promises were heard.He: כך, התחזק הקשר המשפחתי באותו ערב קיץ בחוף המואר.En: Thus, the family bond was strengthened that summer evening on the illuminated shore. Vocabulary Words:nightly: ליליתstretched: התמתחshore: חוףpleasant: נעיםeldest: הבכורsweet: מתוקabroad: בחו״לfears: חששותmemory: זיכרוןhidden: הסתירהindependence: עצמאותrecognition: שבחtension: מתחupset: לפרוץbalance: איזוןhesitated: התלבטהexpressed: ביטאהintensity: בעוצמהsteering: מתנהלsilence: שתיקהextended: הושיטsupport: תמוךpersonal: הפרטיותrelieved: הקלהresponsibility: אחריותtrust: להאמיןenveloped: התעטףmoonlight: אור הירחbond: הקשרilluminated: המוארBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/fluent-fiction-hebrew--5818690/support.

In this episode, Ryan and Anthony cover the big news items connected to the world of SCREAM from this summer. They discuss the viral online gossip and false information spread about Neve Campbell and Kevin Williamson on Instagram, and her involvement in SCREAM 8. Additionally, Ryan and Anthony muse about Jasmin Savoy's Broadway debut in "Hadestown" this fall, and how that likely means SCREAM 8 will not film until early 2027. With some space before production gets underway, Ryan provides the result of polls conducted about which character fans most want Scream 8 to focus on: Sidney, Gale, or Tatum. The decisive results provide a clear path forward. Ryan and Anthony also exchange views on Neve Campbell reuniting with the Party of Five creators on the HBO drama "The Shore," the plans for Paramount and Warner Brothers to develop a new "A Nightmare on Elm Street" film after years of anticipation, and Christopher Landon's adaptation of "The Final Girl Support Group" novel and Scream Queen casting speculation. Then, Ryan performs this week's '30 Years of SCREAM, 30 Questions' Interview with longtime Patreon, Sarah, followed by the first Taylor Swift Song of the Week in season six, "I Bet You Think About Me," a vault track from "Red (Taylor's Version)." Scream 8: No News Who Should Be the Main Character? Neve/Kevin Instagram False Information Neve, HBO, and The Shore "The Final Girl Support Group" A Nightmare on Elm Street 30 Years of SCREAM, 30 Questions Interview: Sarah Cassar Taylor Swift Song of the Week: "I Bet You Think About Me" (Red) Follow us at @ScreamWithRCS at Instagram, Facebook, and X. Sign up at Patreon.com/screamwithrcs to get your own interview on the podcast in honor of the 30th anniversary of SCREAM (1996).

August 9, 2026 Welcome to New Day!  Today's KEY IDEA is: Baptism is more than a ceremony; it's a celebration! Communication Card: https://www.newdaywi.com/communication-card Online Giving: https://www.continuetogive.com/718973/donation_prompt ONLINE Teaching Sunday | 10am | Facebook Live Website: www.newdaywi.com Instagram: www.instagram.com/newdaywi Facebook: www.facebook.com/newdaywi/

The sermon explores the biblical account of Jesus walking on water to reach His disciples during a violent storm, emphasizing that trials often occur even when believers are following God's will. It highlights the futility of relying on human strength or self-effort to navigate life's chaos, contrasting this with the sufficiency of Christ's divine presence. The central message asserts that Jesus reveals Himself as the 'Great I Am' before removing the storm, teaching that His presence is more vital than the resolution of circumstances. Through personal anecdotes and theological reflection, the preacher urges listeners to place their complete trust in Jesus rather than merely acknowledging His power. Ultimately, the text calls both believers and non-believers to find true peace and eternal salvation by surrendering to Christ as the sole solution for sin and fear.

Shore leave finds two of our crew asking each other, "Dude, where's our shuttle?" With confusing inebriated hijinks ensuing, what could go wrong?  --- Regular These Are The Voyages episodes will be released on the 7s (7, 17, and 27).   Reaction Episodes BEAM in every week when we discuss new Star Trek during its original run. --- Make sure to check out our webpage, www.trtvpod.com.  Also, make sure to like our page on Facebook, join our group, and follow us on Instagram and Twitter in the following ways:  Instagram: @trtvpod Twitter @trtvpod | @chase_mckinney Join the podcast community and continue the discussion: You can also hail us by sending subspace communications the following ways: Email: trtvpod@gmail.com Voice only transmission (3-minute limit): 817-752-4757 If you'd like to send us something please address it to: Lone Star Station PO BOX 2455 Azle, TX 76098 **We would love to hear about your origin story with Trek, reactions to the show, or whatever gets you to ENGAGE. If you'd like to support the show and get access to additional Star Trek content then hit us up at Patreon and support the show at Patreon.com/thesearethevoyages.

Tickets for our live show in New York are on sale now! Get yours here. Jersey Mike's started as a small sub shop on the Jersey Shore when a 17-year-old stepped in with big ambitions. Along the way, the company grew to several thousand locations before private equity company Blackstone bought it for $8 billion and took it to Wall Street. But its IPO comes amid struggles in the restaurant industry. WSJ's Heather Haddon and Mark Maurer on Jersey Mike's origins and the hurdles it will have to jump through as a public company. Jessica Mendoza hosts. Further Listening: - Can Burger King Regain Its Crown? - How Kraft Lost Its Mac and Cheese Crown Sign up for WSJ's free What's News newsletter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A live recording from The Big Romance about a 2008 Sub Pop-released classic album of the 2000s. Listen on Apple | Android | Patreon | Pocketcasts | CastBox | Stitcher | Spotify | RSS Feed | Podlink Step into a world of misty melodies and cavernous echoes with Seattle band Fleet Foxes' landmark debut – a defining record of the late-2000s indie folk revival. Led by Robin Pecknold, the album blends the lush, pastoral harmonies of the 1960s with a haunting baroque-pop sensibility and lyrical themes rooted in nature, tradition, and introspection. Like the Bruegel painting on its cover, every track reveals a dense, beautiful world that evokes a timeless – almost mythic Americana sound. This podcast episode is a live recording from our listening party in The Big Romance in April, with guest journalist and Fleet Foxes fan Aoife Barry. Our next Listening Party is Smashing Pumpkins later this month and it's sold out. Listen Closely: Fleet Foxes – Fleet Foxes (2008) A Nialler9 listening party, hosted by Niall Byrne with guest Aoife Barry. Before the album Niall: Hello everyone, how are you? Welcome to the Listen Closely album listening party. I'm Niall, and this is Aoife Barry. Aoife: Hello. Niall: We're here tonight because Aoife picked this album, as she has before. You picked Jeff Buckley last year. Aoife: Yeah, and we ended up doing three of them. Niall: We did, we went to Cork. We did two here and then we went to Cork to talk about Jeff Buckley. And you were at the My Bloody Valentine listening party last year as well, back in October. Aoife: It must have been October, yeah. Niall: Well, obviously we're here for a very different album tonight: Fleet Foxes by Fleet Foxes, from 2008. As you heard there, we played a bit of the Sun Giant EP by the band, which came out a few months before this album, because we want to give the album its full due. They're a little different, and we'll talk about that. But yeah, you picked the record. Aoife: I did. I obviously must like it. And it's such an incredible record. Is there anybody here who hasn't heard it? That's really exciting, if so. I'm excited for you to hear it. You got a sneak peek there of what the vibe is going to be. I picked it because I love this record, but I also had a funny story about how I first heard them. Back in 2008, when this record came out, I'd read about this band called Fleet Foxes in a music magazine. I don't even think I'd heard a song yet, this is back in the day. And I was on holidays in Berlin, and in the tiny little hostel we were staying in, they had a sign up on the wall: "Who's playing tonight? Fleet Foxes, Café Zapata." I said to my boyfriend, "I think that's a band I read about in the magazine, will we go see them?" And he was like, "Grand." So we went, and they were unbelievable. It was so good. Beach House were supporting them. So it was 2008 smacking you in the face. Niall: Come on. Aoife: And I took photos, which I found. I have photos. Artifacts. One is terrible, the other one's not so terrible, taken on one of those little Canon digital cameras. And I still have the ticket, I kept the ticket, I'm one of those hoarders who keeps all their gig tickets. But it was so good: the venue they played in had a dragon that breathed fire out every fifteen minutes. Niall: So they'd be playing and this dragon… Aoife: I'm not even exaggerating. Fire would just shoot out of this mechanical dragon. It was so Berlin. And Fleet Foxes were so stunning, and Beach House were so stunning. I love Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, I love all those harmony vibes, I wish I was born in the seventies, sadly I was not. So I fell in love with them immediately, and I've been a big fan ever since. Although I'll say I probably dipped a little bit around the Crack-Up era, their third album, but then I saw them when Shore came out, their most recent album, and fell right back in love with them. Niall: We're going to talk about all the albums that come afterwards, but we'll start with this one, because this is presumably your favourite, or one of them. Aoife: Shore is up there as well for me, but yeah. Niall: So what was it about Fleet Foxes at the time? For context: in 2008 there was quite a lot of this kind of music around. We previously did Bon Iver's For Emma, Forever Ago as a listening party, and the funny thing, which I only found out when we did this, is that they have the same origin story in a way. Both songwriters went to a cabin in the woods to pour their heart out and write the songs. Aoife: I think Justin Vernon just got there first in terms of the marketing. Niall: So they must have pulled back on talking about it too much, because it's basically the same thing. They never really talked about Robin Pecknold's writing process in those terms. Aoife: For Emma was such a massive moment, everybody was obsessed with this guy who broke up with a girl and went to a cabin and wrote a record about it. It was the ur indie-folk album. Niall: What was really appealing about Fleet Foxes is that they were so young, between about twenty-two and twenty-seven, and Robin Pecknold was twenty-one when he wrote the record. Which is frankly offensive, you shouldn't be allowed to be so talented at twenty-one. Aoife: I know. And they were clearly these people from Seattle, which we associate with grunge, and then it becomes this place where they're bringing out all the pastoral, outdoorsy, mountain-and-sea vibes of the Washington area. They're obviously really influenced by the seventies too, by Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, by Laurel Canyon, but also by Appalachian folk. There's a real purity to what they're doing. The harmonies are unbelievable, there's even a bit of a gospel feeling. So these young guys made this album that was being called an iconic American record on release. The Guardian called it a landmark American album, something like that. And that's special, because you don't get that many records immediately being called landmark. Niall: It was a very exciting time for music around then. I actually brought some records. We mentioned Beach House and Teen Dream earlier, that's a bit later, 2010. I wanted to do a listening party for that at some point, that'd be good craic. Around that time you had Animal Collective and Panda Bear, Person Pitch was right there, that was the apex for that very experimental scene. A few years later we had Sufjan, our very first listening party. And Bon Iver, of course. There's also stuff like Neutral Milk Hotel very much of that vibe. Aoife: I've noticed people covering Neutral Milk Hotel more now. Niall: I think when we got to it, it was on its second go-round, and now it's getting a third, which is great. It's a great record. So, the band were from Seattle, they had a bit of the scruffy flannel-shirt look, but obviously didn't sound like that. The album was written in the woods, in the cabin, brought to the band, and recorded with Phil Ek. Aoife: Who did a lot of stuff with Built to Spill. Niall: Yeah, and he worked with The Shins, and Modest Mouse, a really long history. Aoife: Are The Shins from Seattle as well? Niall: I think they might be. Band of Horses is another one. So they recorded it themselves with Phil Ek, paid for it all themselves, and then the local major independent label Sub Pop came calling. Obviously known for a lot of grunge traditionally, but they'd clearly been releasing this kind of music around then too, The Shins had been on the label for a few years, Band of Horses. When it came to it, they signed to Sub Pop. Apparently there was a bidding war. Aoife: They'd become quite popular on MySpace. Anybody remember MySpace? Every time I do one of these I feel older and older, mentioning the top eight, the randomers you'd put in your top eight. Word could spread quite quickly once you got popular on MySpace. Niall: What I thought was really interesting, that I discovered when I was researching, is that recording the album was actually a total pain for them. They didn't have much money, so they ended up recording a lot of it in their houses, or in Robin Pecknold's family home. And he re-did all the vocals right before they mastered the record, because he'd been sick during the initial sessions and his voice wasn't in great shape. They recorded it all in one go, scrapped that, did another version, and kept moving the running order around. I'm always fascinated by albums where the creation was a total pain and they had no idea it would even work out. Robin Pecknold actually said, "I hope nobody cares about this album, because I just want to move on to the next one." And then it becomes this iconic record. Aoife: Isn't every artist sick of their album by the time it's done? You're like, "my paintings." Yeah. Niall: 2008 was an interesting time for it to land. The album draws on the Beach Boys and Brian Wilson, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, Nick Drake, Simon & Garfunkel, Fairport Convention, Judee Sill, very much old-timey or sixties folk and pastoral stuff. And in 2008 there's a financial crash. The album was worked on before that, but it was released into that environment, and a lot of this music seemed to catch. When things go bad, we retreat, we dream, we listen to music that's maybe the opposite of what we're feeling. There was a gentleness, an unhurriedness to it that resonated. Aoife: Grizzly Bear is another band from that time. When Jay-Z and Beyoncé went to see Grizzly Bear in Brooklyn, that was kind of where all the indie music peaked. Niall: And the other part of it, which I was involved in, was the MP3 blogs, that's where you'd hear this music. Especially the American and Canadian stuff, no one was promoting it over here yet, so you'd be months ahead. You'd hear Fleet Foxes in these MP3 formats. That was a mad period, it showed how the internet could collapse geography, a song could spread really quickly on the blogs. And in an American context, this came out post-Bush, with the Obama era coming in, a more hopeful tone. You had the Lehman Brothers crash, these global pressures, and then these hopeful times too. It's interesting to wonder whether these albums are a reaction to it, or whether they appeal to us because we want nice, happy things. I feel like Fleet Foxes have so much emotional depth: there's yearning, sadness, hope, nostalgia. Aoife: I loved Yellow House by Grizzly Bear, their first record, a complex, complicated, almost jazzy thing that sounded beautiful but had a lot going on. We weren't going for simplistic music, but we wanted music that gave us depth and beauty. Is art a solution to the world collapsing? Niall: We could be answering that in 2026. We live in a cursed timeline, as I keep saying. That's all I'm going to say. But what else happened in 2008 in the wider circle of music? Portishead returned with Third. TV on the Radio released Dear Science. MGMT released Oracular Spectacular, 'Kids' and all that. Cut Copy released In Ghost Colours, Indie Sleaze night on Saturday, folks, come on. Kanye put out 808s & Heartbreak, that was November that year. Rihanna was at the peak of her powers. Aoife: Katy Perry appeared that year. And 'American Boy'. Niall: 'American Boy', still one of the best pop songs, fire. Iron & Wine was the other one I forgot to mention. So it was a really vibrant, varied year. As you heard, there's the Sun Giant EP too. Aoife: The thing about that is it came out before the album, but was recorded after. The album was done, in the bag. Niall: They decided to go into the studio and record Sun Giant, a collection of songs intended to sell on tour. It ended up being quite popular, and for a lot of people it was their first time discovering Fleet Foxes. Aoife: It wasn't like The Coronas' 'San Diego Song', their summer-holiday anthem, or anything like that. But it came out before the album, and then the album arrives. Niall: So what was the reaction at the time? Was it immediate? Aoife: Things happened really quickly. In January that year they got all the MySpace attention, and by June the album was coming out. Really, really quick. There was so much chatter about them, which is partly why I'd seen the name, and a music blog like yours would have seen it too, and known they were one of the big bands. In a way that's harder now. Niall: These days you see bands like Geese getting a lot of attention because they use companies that help them go viral. You didn't really have that then. Now you'd dress yourself up in some gimmick, polka dots, whatever, and go viral all over the internet for it. I couldn't imagine these lads doing that. Aoife: No. But maybe in a way they were cosplaying living in the forest, on the Puget Sound. Niall: Anyway, when the album came out, people loved them, and it really hit it off. Because they sound so seventies, your parents would love the records and you'd love the records. There's almost a lullaby quality to the folk stuff too. The music is applicable to anybody of any generation, and there's something lovely about nostalgic music that reminds you of a better time. To finish on that point: I think there's something very mysterious about Fleet Foxes, they feel out of time. They're these young, scruffy lads with the beards, but there's a mystery to them. They didn't come across as the hipster end of things, they weren't leaning into anything. They were presented as the kind of band that wouldn't have had phones, would have lived off-grid, which is funny because they were a MySpace band. They're the most un-MySpace band you can imagine. Surprise people, do something a bit different, don't be exactly what people want you to be, and they'll love you for it. And then your songs are unbelievable too, soaring and stunning. Can we talk for a second about the cover? It's an original painting from 1559 by Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Netherlandish Proverbs. It depicts a densely populated Flemish village scene illustrating 126 folk proverbs. There's a lot there. Some on this side are cut off, but for example, this woman here, she's putting the blue cloak on her husband, meaning she deceives him. This guy is casting roses before swine, wasting effort on the unworthy. And right at the top there's a man running through a field with his arse on fire, chasing pigs, "he who eats fire craps sparks," do not be surprised at the outcome if you attempt a dangerous venture. There are 126 of those. Aoife: The interesting thing is that the band managed to get permission to use it. Really unusual to be allowed use it as commercial artwork. Niall: And apparently the museum that holds the artwork were delighted. A lot of stars aligned for them. It's an iconic cover because it's so different from what anybody else was doing, clearly of a particular period, and it has that Where's Wally quality. I have a quote about it. Robin said: "We were trying to figure out what we wanted to do, and my brother had been working some stuff out, when I saw this Bruegel painting in a book my girlfriend had. I liked that it had a really intriguing meaning, there's a story to each little scene, which felt fitting for the record. It was dense but unified, not a collage. It has a Where's Waldo quality, something you could look at for a long time on a vinyl sleeve and keep finding new little things. It was very easy to get the museum in Berlin that has it to say yes, they were super excited the band wanted to use it, and put it in their newsletter. When you open it up, on the inside there's a Paisley pattern traced from the back of a book that Skyler's mum got me. We wanted two very different feelings." So, what to look out for when we press play very shortly? Aoife: When I was going back to this, I had it in my head that every song was one of these big songs, because there are so many big moments. But actually there are two tracks that are pretty much acoustic, so it's interesting to notice how they go from the big sound to the small. And for me they're a real emotion-and-feeling band, so notice how you feel listening to it. I always feel this swell of emotion with Fleet Foxes, I was walking down the road listening to Shore and I was like, my God. So lean back and feel into the emotions they're bringing you. And listen to the lyrics if you can make them out, because they're so out of time, all about pack horses and this amazing imagery. Robin Pecknold said he didn't write about a lot of personal stuff because he didn't have enough life experience yet, so instead he wrote these beautifully poetic narratives about pastoral and rural life. So I'd say the lyrics and the feelings are the two things. Niall: Track two, 'White Winter Hymnal', is probably the biggest one, watch out for that. And a few other people thanked and cited as influences, for some extra context: Brian Wilson, Joanna Newsom, Bob Dylan, Noah Lennox and all the lads from Animal Collective, Levon Helm and Robbie Robertson of The Band, Blitzen Trapper, who they toured with at the time and who were bigger than them then. For some reason Joni Mitchell and Neil Young are listed together, which is fair enough. Marvin Gaye, Damien Jurado, Paul Simon and John Lennon listed together. Townes Van Zandt, a legend. Vashti Bunyan, and Van Morrison. There's a nice quote from Robin Pecknold I'll read afterwards. Let's just open it up and listen. I'll play it at full volume, it's about thirty-nine minutes, two sides. Close your eyes, whatever you want to do, vibe away in your own way. [The album plays: Fleet Foxes – Fleet Foxes, 39 minutes.] After the album Niall: It's quite an economical album, isn't it? It doesn't stick around long, thirty-nine minutes. Aoife: I like an economical album. It's also one of the first fairly short records we've done here. Niall: That's part of why I was thinking about Sun Giant in that context too. I'm going to read a bit from the liner notes, because for an album that's very much about feelings, with only a few direct songs, some of what's written here is interesting: "My first memory has always been of me and my mom on a cold grey day down at some beach in Washington, along the Puget Sound somewhere near Seattle. I would be around two or three years old, and we were with a friend of mine from the neighbourhood and his mom, walking among the driftwood looking for crabs. Even now I can remember the smell and temperature of the air, the feeling of the sand and the swaying tall grass. I can even remember looking over at my friend and how his face looked when he smiled back at me. Another memory I'll sometimes recall as my first is dressing up in the dead of summer as Jack London, with tennis rackets on my feet and wearing my dad's hiking pack, after seeing Disney's terrible version of White Fang. Or the memory of stealing my neighbour's Big Wheel and riding it halfway down the block before getting caught and having to turn around defeated. Or wearing a fireman's outfit while washing my parents' car, or eating an orange popsicle from the ice cream truck. These have always been some of my most distinct and persistent memories of childhood. So it came as a disappointment when, one day as a teenager, I opened up a photo album and found pictures of each and every one of these memories. I didn't have a single memory that didn't belong to, or somehow grow from, those pictures my parents had. I guess I've seen all these photographs at some point, forgotten they were just photographs, and over time made them into my most tangible memories. That's scary to me in a way. This leads me to something weird about the power music has: its transportability. Any time I hear a song or record that meant a lot to me at a certain moment, I'm instantly taken back to that place in full detail. Whenever I hear 'Feel Flows' by the Beach Boys, I'm taken straight to the back of my parents' car on the way to my grandparents' place, with Surf's Up in my Walkman and the Cascade Mountains going by in the window. Any song off Radiohead's Kid A brings back the airport near Seattle, from when we were on the way to Colorado for a wedding and Kid A was the only record I brought or wanted to bring. 'Crayon Angels' by Judee Sill is the whole winter of last year. And Brian Wilson's solo version of 'Surf's Up' takes me back to driving my parents' car around town alone at sixteen, windows down at night. I can't ascribe exact memories to songs by The Microphones, Joni Mitchell, Built to Spill, Dungen, Harry Nilsson and so many others, and it's a form of recall I can actually trust, there's no visual element to complicate things, no chance of a planted memory that wasn't actually supposed to be there. Maybe I should be concerned that I'm alone in almost all of these memories, but I guess I was just a private kid, and music was a private experience for me. Music activates a certain mental freedom in a way nothing else can, and that is so empowering. You can call it escapism if you like, but I see it as connecting to a deeper human feeling than the one found in the day-to-day world." Aoife: That's lovely. It's a nice addendum. And he was only twenty-one. Niall: For some reason it's signed "Warren Gamaliel Bancroft Winnipeg Harding," Warren G. Harding being the 29th president of the United States. I don't know why, he thought it was funny. Dated April 6th, 2008, Chicago, Illinois. So, any particular highlights, anything that stood out? Aoife: I was reminded how much I love 'Blue Ridge Mountains', the second-to-last song. I just love those four- and five-part harmonies so much. There's something that really gets me about beautiful harmonies stacked on each other that sound so natural. My dad was really into Neil Young and all of that era, my mum's really into Simon & Garfunkel, so I feel like I came out of the womb going, this is the music I love. Niall: There was another one I meant to mention. Aoife: I'm really bad at remembering song names, which isn't great for an arts journalist. They go in one ear and out the other. Niall: 'He Doesn't Know Why'. Aoife: That was it. I always forget the name of that one, and it's an absolute banger. It's quite a direct song, the last one on the first side. Niall: He mentions his brother Sean in 'Blue Ridge Mountains', which is interesting. And Oliver James is his younger brother, that's the last song. Aoife: His sister is Aja, after the Steely Dan album. The parents were really into them. Niall: It holds up so well. The harmonies and vocals sound incredible, there are those beautiful little flourishes, a flute on one of the tracks, the guitar is stunning, lovely little bass lines. I love the way Robin Pecknold and the band hear music. There's a really good Song Exploder episode with him talking about a song from Crack-Up, and the way he thinks about translating his thoughts and emotions into music is so illuminating. He has a beautiful melodic flow that's really similar to the flow of water and nature. There are so many nature references, it's almost parody there are so many. Aoife: You could do a Portlandia sketch about it. "Power of nature, man." "Come down from the mountain, you've been gone too long." Niall: In terms of the line-up: alongside Robin Pecknold on vocals there was Skyler Skjelset on lead guitar, his best friend from Nathan Hale High School, later joined by Casey Wescott, Christian Wargo on bass, and Nicholas Peterson on drums, who left after this album. Aoife: And who came in as the drummer? Niall: A man who's been a main character in one of these listening parties himself: Josh Tillman, Father John Misty, played drums with them. Aoife: For how long? Niall: Only a year or two, pretty short. As I said, main character, he was making his own record. Any Father John Misty fans? He writes really good songs and he's handsome, so we all love him, but he's also a bit of a pain, and he didn't get on very well with Robin Pecknold, which isn't surprising. When I was looking back at the Pitchfork interview they did in 2008, a few months after the album came out, it was a big joint interview with Robin and Josh Tillman, and Tillman is answering the questions at the start. That's confidence. Do you want to hear a quote from what Robin Pecknold said? I've written it in my little notebook, so old-school, that's the only way I remember these things. In a 2020 Reddit AMA, Pecknold said that on that tour, the Helplessness Blues tour, Tillman was supposed to bring out his own record, but his label said he could only release it after the tour. So he was on tour thinking, "I want to bring out my own record, I'm tired of Fleet Foxes." Pecknold said he "had to endure being around a lot of substance abuse, sabotaged shows, general ill treatment and shit-talking, all while paying him for songs he didn't have anything to do with. It sucked." And then Tillman left the band. Whereas in that Pitchfork interview he'd said, "I love playing in this band, these are all my friends, I'm having the best time, I'm sorry if that's a corny quote, but that's the best thing about this experience right now." Aoife: So he was lying through his teeth. I think he's the kind of person who really has to be a solo artist, too iconic a personality. You wouldn't want to wrangle him out of bed to get to the next show. Niall: Too big a price. You mentioned Pitchfork, the album was number one on their end-of-year list in 2008, and they listed Sun Giant alongside it, breaking the traditional conventions of end-of-year lists. What they said was: listing Fleet Foxes' debut album and EP together may be awkward, but it just feels right, they're two sides of a coin that equally express the band's mastery, "a catch-all Americana that takes a wide slice of our popular music spectrum and pulls it through a reverse prism to create a gorgeous and focused sound of the band's own. The threads of Brian Wilson's coastal pop, Appalachian folk, modern indie rock, Grateful Dead jams and other influences are masterfully synthesised in the band's harmonies." Robin Pecknold's sense of dynamics, they said, flows like a river, wild and free but logical, filling what needs to be filled and moving on. I swear I didn't rip that off Pitchfork, I came up with something similar on my own. Aoife: Very good. Niall: It was Uncut's album of the year too. But more than anything, and this is a strange accolade, the album was ranked number 36 on Rolling Stone's list of the greatest stoner albums. Aoife: I don't think Robin Pecknold was a stoner. It doesn't really fit. He's a reader. Niall: So what came after? Helplessness Blues, which is really difficult to say, in 2011, then Crack-Up in 2017, then Shore in 2020. Big long gaps, some personnel changes. And Robin Pecknold, as we've established, is a very literary guy, he went to Columbia to do an undergrad in English literature, because he'd left high school early and gone to a community college, and he really wanted that college experience. So that was part of the break. He's also had difficult times, he's spoken about mental health issues and suicidal ideation, many tough experiences that contributed to the gaps too. They haven't released anything since 2020, and he does a lot of cover events. There are two live records. He's actually playing a gig tonight, I think, where he covers Judee Sill. Any Judee Sill fans? Aoife: Oh my gosh, she's amazing. Nobody ever knows Judee Sill. If you listen to anything, listen to Heart Food, it's iconic. He loves her, mentions her on this record. She's the one who does 'The Kiss', people might have seen her perform it on the Old Grey Whistle Test, it's on YouTube. She had a really tragic life. Niall: One of those I've been meaning to listen to properly for years. She only has two records, so it's easy to get into. There's a documentary about her as well, which I haven't seen. Aoife: She's one of those ill-fated seventies musicians, really religious imagery, did a lot of drugs, really interesting. Niall: Did you get to see them again after your first foray in Berlin? Aoife: I saw them when they toured, though it's really bad when you can't remember what you were doing in the 2010s. Niall: Did anybody see them at that Dublin gig, the outdoor one in 2022? Wasn't it amazing. They've played here a fair bit: Vicar Street in 2008, Electric Picnic 2009, The Marquee in Cork 2011, the Iveagh Gardens in 2017. I don't know if I've missed any, maybe you can tell me. So if you were to pick, is there any further listening or reading you'd suggest to somebody, not necessarily Fleet Foxes? Aoife: Some of it is obvious. As I said, I'd definitely check out Judee Sill, because if you really like Fleet Foxes you'd really vibe with her. And he mentions Harry Nilsson, also unbelievable, more well known than Judee Sill, did the cover of 'Everybody's Talkin''. I'd also mention a guy people would have known at one point but isn't very well known now: Richard Swift. He sadly passed away a couple of years ago. He was friends with Robin Pecknold, a hugely talented musician who struggled with addiction. He has an amazing double album from around 2005 or 2006 that's brilliant, and a record called The Hex, which is referenced on 'Sunblind' on Shore, that's the song where Robin name-checks a lot of musicians he loves, like Elliott Smith, David Berman and Richard Swift. It's such a beautiful record for finding new people to listen to, and it's lovely to hear a musician pay tribute to musicians he loves. The imagery is him talking about this beautiful day where he'll go for a swim and listen to all these beautiful bands, an ecstatic kind of song. So check out all of those records, but Richard Swift deserves more fans, and The Hex is really, really good. Niall: Good shout. What we'll do now is play a tune, and then maybe give Sun Giant another go if you want to stick around. Our next listening party is on the 27th of May, and it's an indie-rock album very close to my heart: Broken Social Scene's You Forgot It in People. I've been wanting to do this one on record for a long time. They're playing here later in the year, but I want to give this record its flowers, it's incredible. My niece has just turned seventeen and I bought her a copy, because it's an anthemic record for a seventeen-year-old. I can't believe that band are still going, which is kind of mad, but it's hard to underline what Broken Social Scene meant to a certain segment of indie. Aoife: And there's four hundred of them on stage. They're from Canada, and we were all like, my God, these people are the best. Niall: For me it's the MP3 times again, we'll talk about this next month. I heard about them through the music blogs, and then I got to see them in the Button Factory, which was the Temple Bar Music Centre at the time. It was one of the first things I ever wrote about, back in 2005. A transcendental experience. Aoife: They're so good live. Niall: I once DJ'd in Galway after one of their gigs, and one of the members of the band, I'll leave him nameless, came over and turned off the decks while I was DJing. Aoife: On purpose? Niall: He was that drunk. I can't remember what I was playing, but I was like, great, DJing after Broken Social Scene and then a band member ruins it. I don't think he liked it. No, I think he was just really drunk and thought it was funny. Thumbs down to him. In a way it's surprising a man like that has managed to persist in a band with so many members. Anyway, I digress. We'll talk about it next month, May 27th. Aoife: I cannot wait. I've been listening to it a lot lately again, it's fantastic. Niall: Thank you for being here. Let's play a bit of this and see what happens. Thanks for being here, appreciate it.

Mark Reardon talks with George Rosenthal about the Meta AI hacking another company during testing. Then Sophia Shore joins the show to talk about the big wins in Missouri as we are now past election night in the state.

Most of us know the feeling of being on a course we cannot change, watching the storm get worse, wondering if anyone is in control. The sailors around Paul had already thrown the cargo overboard and given up hope, until the prisoner stands up and tells them that not one life will be lost, because the God he serves has promised it. The ship breaks apart on the rocks, and every single person reaches shore alive, a sermon in itself about how God keeps people through disaster rather than around it. When life falls apart in ways you never chose, the same Lord who held that crew holds you.  The Rev. Dan Eddy, pastor of Messiah Lutheran Church in Beloit, WI, joins the Rev. Dr. Phil Booe to study Acts 27:21-44. To learn more about Messiah in Beloit, visit mlcbeloit.com. The book of Acts picks up where the Gospels leave off. Jesus has risen. He has ascended. And now what? Acts answers that question. Luke tells the story of how the Holy Spirit built the Church from a handful of frightened disciples in Jerusalem into a movement that reached Rome itself. Along the way, you get Pentecost, the first sermons, the first martyrs, the conversion of Paul, the first church councils, shipwrecks, riots, and the persistent, stubborn work of God through Word and Sacrament even when His people didn't have a plan. If you've ever wondered how we got from Easter morning to the Church you sit in today, this is the book. Tune in for this new series on Thy Strong Word with Pastor Phil Booe and guest pastors as we open up the Book of Acts.  Thy Strong Word, hosted by Rev. Dr. Phil Booe, pastor of St. John Lutheran Church of Luverne, MN, reveals the light of our salvation in Christ through study of God's Word, breaking our darkness with His redeeming light. Each weekday, two pastors fix our eyes on Jesus by considering Holy Scripture, verse by verse, in order to be strengthened in the Word and be equipped to faithfully serve in our daily vocations. Submit comments or questions to: thystrongword@kfuo.org.

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Podcasting in Time is brought to you by the Afterheads and Producers on Patreon in collaboration with my unemployment. If you enjoy it, SUBSCRIBE to get episodes early and enable me to do more things like this. You'll also get all the other bonus episodes of TIYA After Dark:https://www.patreon.com/thisisyourafterlifeWelcome back to Podcasting in Time, a This Is Your Afterlife bonus miniseries exploring the filmography of Soviet director Andrei Tarkovsky.With this Solaris episode, we're deep into this filmography. My head is full of flowing waters, plants swaying in the wind, and horses being weird, and we've reached the point of the series where I'm not sure what I've said and on which episode. Plus, this movie affects me the way the planet Solaris does everyone in its orbit: it scrambles my mind! Fortunately, I've got film critic Fred Barrett here to talk about it. Fred is sharp and insightful, and he rattled off a syllabus' worth of other films to watch during the course of our conversation. If you like it, let me know!Follow Fred:https://twitter.com/fred_berettahttps://fredbarrett.substack.com/https://letterboxd.com/electricdreams/Incredibly Incomplete List of Works Referenced:Stanislaw Lem: SolarisHarlan Ellison: "I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream"Solaris (2002)Red Line 7000 (1965)Gertrude (1964)Ugetsu (1953)Laura (1944)Kiss Me Deadly (1955)High and Low (1963)Journey to the Shore (2015)High and Low (1963)Moon Rainbow aka Lunar Rainbow (1983)Follow TIYA, share your thoughts:https://thisisyourafterlife.com/https://www.instagram.com/thisisyourafterlife/thisisdavemaher@gmail.comMusic by TIYA house band Lake Mary:https://lakemary.bandcamp.com/https://www.instagram.com/chaz.prymek/

Dave Sturchio & Tommy Dee are back inside Stellar19 Studios to bring you the latest episode of 'The Fight Factory Wrestling Podcast"! The War On The Shore 3 has come and gone, hear about the feedback they're getting along with their reactions on some of the amazing moments on the beach of Point Pleasant. Grayson Waller returned to NXT with a STATEMENT! The fellas discuss this promo! Busted Open on Sirius gets purchased and partners with WWE! What does this mean for the future of radio. Do you have any artifacts that you'd LOVE to have from pro wrestling history?? They close the show with that! Enjoy!! #WWE #WarOnTheShore3 #GraysonWaller #FightFactoryWrestling

Dawn breaks down the massive national stakes in Pennsylvania's 7th Congressional District, where candidate spending is already breaking records four months out from the election. The crew dives into President Trump's latest standoff with Senate Majority Leader John Thune, as Trump demands Republicans cancel their August recess until the SAVE America Act passes or the filibuster gets scrapped. Plus, we react to the Trump administration pausing military strikes on Iran after 13 consecutive nights of bombardment, looking ahead to Netanyahu's upcoming White House visit. The crew debriefs after successfully completing the 65-mile Ben to the Shore Bike Tour to raise money for the Families Behind the Badge Children's Foundation. Dawn, Frank Scales, and Ian McGinnis share their wild stories from the road, including flat tires, gear failures, and pushing through past the Galloway rest stop to honor fallen officers like the late Highway Patrol Officer Andy Chan. We break down the sheer mental grit it takes to bike across the Ben Franklin Bridge and fight through the Atlantic City wind, while celebrating the incredible community of first responders and volunteers who made the event possible. Dawn highlights the incredible story out of Philadelphia's Wynnefield section where an elderly woman's instincts saved her life just hours before her historic stone home completely collapsed into the street. We also discuss Education Secretary Linda McMahon's aggressive move to defund school districts that hide children's gender transitions from their parents, framing it as an essential push for parental rights. Finally, the crew addresses the growing anger from 9/11 victim families demanding New York political figures be barred from future ground zero commemorations.

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Greetings, Slushies! We're here with an encore episode today, one we chose for its excellent exploration of craft, including a discussion about the golden shovel and the definition of ambiguity. Listen in for that and for two poems from poet Marko Capoferri. Enjoy. Thanks, as always, for listening.   How do you pronounce “San Gorgonio,” Slushies? How do you say “Schuylkill?” We talk regional accents, local knowledge, and artistic craft-- from the risks of the pathetic fallacy to the unknowability of metaphor, the art of ambiguity, and, of course, the golden shovel. Join us for an episode devoted to poems by Marko Capoferri where we discuss poetic craft, resonant symbols, and the peculiar power of telephone poles.     What can't you pronounce where you live?    Links to things we discuss that you may dig:   Eula Biss's “Time and Distance Overcome”  Jennifer L. Knox's “Irwin Allen Vs. The Lion Tamer”    At the table: Katheleen Volk Miller, Marion Wrenn, Jason Schneiderman, Samantha Neugebauer, Larissa Morgano & Kate Wagner    This episode is brought to you by one of our sponsors, Wilbur Records, who kindly introduced us to the artist is A.M.Mills whose song “Spaghetti with Loretta” now opens our show.      Marko Capoferri is a poet, musician, and former conservation worker. He has lived and worked in eight US states, including Montana, where he has lived since 2015. He received an MFA in poetry from the University of Montana in Missoula. His work has appeared in The Shore, Painted Bride Quarterly, Porter House Review, and elsewhere.   Instagram: Instagram.com/markocapoferri  Two more recent publications: https://www.stoneboatwi.com/issue-14-2/capoferri https://sequestrum.org/contributor-spotlight-marko-capoferri     San Gorgonio    White paper coffee cups collect in drifts  by the freeway exit ramp—the hearts of ghosts  once held tight then tossed out the window  of a car speeding across the desert at four a.m.     trying to stay awake to see, when the light  came back, what the battered face of the land  could tell us about ourselves: how the mountains  were stark and risen; how we were sunk dumb     in between, a scathing plain of wind turbines  resonating unearthly as Amelia Earhart's flooded engines  chugging their final gasp on the ocean floor;    how the sea was here once and swallowed heights,     long since yawned and pulled away paving  this desert with a tired yellow dirt now blown  through our teeth, through our beating pistons,  and a few black rounded stones as souvenirs     from lost time; how thistle-studded towns  were hardly refuge; how the many stones  we had gathered were bright and jagged,  too young by design to tell any real story;     how lust and lost became an exchange in glances  through a motel's cracked facade; how these roads  kept on dressing down like lightning on a postcard  running fingers in the hot mouth of experience.     Self-portrait with Elegy     Just like we were on the Great Plains  in 1949, my father and I would gather  summer nights with neighbors  lining our country road to watch  constellations disbanding. Whether tragedy  or a tragic lack of imagination, it's hard  to say—he and I simply could not see  any threads or their severing. Then,  as now, telephone wires also lined the road  linking the night one lighted island  at a time, though the wires are now dead  gestures, props to a faded empire  of distant voices made close but never  close enough to turn that light  into warmth. What's left—sinking  into my own humidity, my own  expanse of darkness, and he  to his own. As you read this  it is surely a summer night some place  the land extends forever  until it gives up where the visible  begins to visibly waver, either  from the heat or from the failure  of the possibilities of sight.     

We open Wednesday with the high-stakes election integrity fallout rocking the region after New Jersey officials admitted to registering over 6,000 non-citizens on state voter rolls. Election integrity attorney Linda Kearns joins Dawn Stensland to break down why calling this issue a mere "software glitch" ignores decades of structural flaws stemming from the 1993 Motor Voter Act. We analyze the Department of Justice stepping in to demand full voter records, how state automatic registration policies dump ineligible people onto voting lists, and why local elections face the greatest risk when voter rolls remain uncleaned. Dawn and the crew dive into the eerie ongoing investigation in Olney, where federal agents and cadaver dogs have taken over a neighborhood property to excavate a massive underground pipe. We walk through the terrifying details surrounding 44-year-old Eugene Horsch, including fake federal credentials, zip ties, handwritten serial killer references, and a suspicious 55-gallon drum tied directly into the water lines. Plus, we highlight local hero Patrolman Dominic Hodson for delivering a baby on the side of the road and share updates on our fundraising efforts for the Families Behind the Badge Children's Foundation ahead of Sunday's Ben to the Shore bike ride. Pennsylvania Attorney General Dave Sunday joins Dawn to address a looming judicial deadline after the state Supreme Court struck down mandatory life sentences without parole for second-degree felony murder. We discuss the potential legal chaos facing over 1,000 incarcerated individuals, how a lack of updated state guidelines leaves resentencing entirely to individual judges, and what this means for victims' families seeking long-term justice. We wrap up by examining the separation of powers, federal election integrity measures, and the urgent necessity of maintaining public trust in both the justice system and the ballot box.

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Marty's back on the shore house porch just as the Middle East flares up again. Marty and John dig into WTI and Brent back in the 80s, the SPR hitting 43 days, and why GCC countries are racing to bypass the Strait of Hormuz. They also get into the US as a helium winner, the Fed trying to have it both ways on forward guidance and inflation, and why Kimi K3 is exposing the strategic risk of nerfed frontier models. They also touch on Jevons Paradox in AI inference, whether sovereigns will end up backstopping training spend, and Bitcoin hovering around 64k with the strategic reserve bill finally hitting committee.

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The WIP Afternoon Show is replaying yesterday's segment for Ike with Tommy Down The Shore joins Spike and Fritz to investigate a copper wire theft at Somerdale Cold Cuts that resulted in $20,000 of spoiled meat. He performs an emotional original poem titled 'The Ballad of Johnny Gabagool' to support the local deli owner.

Tommy Down the Shore joins to investigate a "cold cut crime" at Somerdale Cold Cuts and recites an original poem for owner Johnny Gabagool.

Spike and Fritz discuss the latest rumors surrounding LeBron James and his potential fit with the 76ers. They also react to Bill Barnwell's trade value rankings and the perceived disrespect shown toward Jalen Hurts. Additionally, Tommy Down the Shore joins them to provide a poetic update on a local deli meat heist in Somerdale.

Hey girl — if you're in the thick of a hard season right now, this one is for you. If you're exhausted from fighting the same thoughts every single day… if you're so tired of trying to do this whole recovery thing by yourself… if you're scared to death of letting go of control but you know you desperately want to stop carrying this burden alone — I created today's episode just for you, sis. We're doing something a little different: seashells, ocean currents, and the imagery of my happy place. But don't let the beach vibes fool you — this is one of the most important truths I've ever shared on this show. Because you are closer to shore than you think. Picture this with me: You're standing at the ocean. Way off in the distance is a beautiful, peaceful shoreline — that's your recovery. Your freedom. Your life without the constant mental chatter. But between you and that shore is a massive current pushing against you. Every stroke toward healing, the eating disorder voice pushes back. That current is made of everything that feels impossible right now: the fear of weight gain, the voice saying you can't have that yet, the terror of losing the thing that's made you feel safe even while it's been destroying you, and the sheer exhaustion of fighting every single day. And somewhere in the middle of it, you get tired. You start thinking, maybe I should just stop swimming. Here's what I need you to know: every single woman who has found freedom from an eating disorder has had to swim against this same current. And you are stronger than the current trying to take you under. __________________ My son spent our beach trip hunting for the "perfect" shells to bring me — the smooth ones, the whole ones, no holes, no rough edges. And it hit me: we were looking at it all wrong. The pressure, the tumbling, the tossing — that's exactly what creates a shell's strength and its beauty. Every line and curve comes from surviving another storm. And here's the part that gives me chills: after all the chaos, the shells wash up complete. Children collect them. People treasure them. They become symbols of the ocean's power to create beauty from something that got tossed around and slammed to the ground. The broken ones tell a story. And nobody actually wants the "perfect" ones anyway — those are the little baby shells that have never been in the deep waters. Sis, this is your story. Every hard day, every moment you choose your meal over your fear, every time you resist the scale — you're forming another layer of strength. You're not broken because you're in the storm. You're in the process of becoming a treasure. _______________ I know what you're thinking: "I'm terrified of letting go. What if I lose control?" Truth bomb, sis: you're not actually in control right now anyway. Your eating disorder is controlling when you eat, what you eat, how much you exercise, what you wear, where you go, your thoughts from the moment you wake until you sleep. That's not control — that's a false sense of safety that's keeping you fighting the current. Or worse, drowning in it. And stepping into faith? I'm not talking about a giant leap where you suddenly trust everything perfectly. I'm talking about one stroke toward shore instead of treading water in the same spot: Eating your snack when the voice says you don't need it Choosing rest when your body is exhausted Reaching out for support instead of figuring it out alone Trusting that putting yourself first isn't selfish — it's necessary Even the strongest swimmers need a lifeguard I know you. You're the woman who thinks she has to do everything herself — believe me, I am her. You've been managing your recovery, your food, your kids, your husband, your whole life all by yourself, and beating yourself up when you get tired. But here's the hardest truth: the hardest thing isn't doing it perfectly. The hardest thing is admitting you can't do it alone. Your eating disorder has been stealing the oxygen from your lungs. Putting yourself first means finally putting on the oxygen tank. And when you do — when you stop treading alone — something beautiful happens: you become the calm in somebody else's storm. Every woman who finds freedom becomes a lighthouse for the women still fighting the current. Your daughter watches how you talk about your body. Your friends see how you handle stress. Your healing creates a ripple effect far beyond you. A few lines from the episode "You are stronger than the current that is trying to take you under." "The broken shells aren't broken at all — they tell a story." "That's not control — that's a false sense of safety." "Faith looks like one stroke toward shore instead of treading water in the same spot." "Even the strongest swimmers need a lifeguard." "Recovery isn't selfish. It's wise." "Every woman who finds freedom becomes a lighthouse for the women still fighting the current." "You are not too far out in the current. You are not the exception to healing." Stop swimming in circles. Stop treading water. Reach your hand up for the lifeguard — not tomorrow, not next week, not when you feel ready. Now. Because when you get support, the current doesn't disappear — but you're not fighting it alone. The waves don't stop coming — but you learn to ride them like a surfer instead of being crushed by them. Ready to stop swimming alone? If this message inspired you, don't wait until you're "ready." Head to www.herbestself.co and fill out a client application — I would be honored to be the one swimming next to you, helping you navigate the waves I've already been through.