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South Park Charlie Kirk Predictive ProgrammingThe source material consists of a speaker's critical analysis of what they categorize as staged historical events or psychological operations (psyops), particularly focusing on the alleged shooting of Charlie Kirk. The speaker details a three-part media strategy supporting these events, encompassing predictive programming (content released long before the event), concurrent programming (content released at the time), and reinforcement (the media ecosystem validating the premise). Furthermore, the discussion transitions to critique the anti-geoengineering movement, which the speaker dismisses as controlled opposition designed to ensure both sides of the political spectrum agree on the fundamental premise of man-made global alteration. The speaker contends that these scripted events suggest that key public figures are merely scripted people playing pre-planned roles that stretch back decades. Ultimately, the speaker argues that the public's increasing inability to discern truth from sophisticated media fakery and AI-generated content is ushering in a "new dark age."SynopsisThe speaker focuses on analyzing major current events, such as the Charlie Kirk shooting, as staged historical events or psychological operations (psyops) that shape shared history. These simulated events are characterized by pervasive media saturation involving predictive, concurrent, and reinforcement programming. The South Park episode featuring a Charlie Kirk-esque character (Cartman/Clyde) falling off a chair to the left is cited as specific evidence of concurrent and predictive programming leading up to the alleged shooting event. The analysis extends to major public figures, referred to as "fake people" or scripted actors, whose roles are foreshadowed in prior media, suggesting they step into pre-planned scenarios (e.g., Elon Musk, Donald Trump, Charlie Kirk, Candace Owens).The speaker also critically analyzes the anti-geo-engineering movement (chemtrails), calling it intellectually dishonest and controlled opposition that serves as a tool of the "system". This movement, like climate change activism, results in the Hegelian dialectic working because both sides agree that man is destroying the planet.The central theme is the need for a paradigm shift to an "off-world stage perspective," where individuals adopt the premise of "fake until proven real" to counteract the rising tide of media fakery and AI-generated content, which threatens to usher in a "new dark age" characterized by visual illiteracy.5 Talking PointsStaged Events and Predictive Programming: Significant headline-grabbing events are considered simulated events (psyops or hoaxes) that are often scheduled and planned in advance, with scripts potentially existing 20 years ago or longer. The planning of these events is evidenced by the existence of predictive, concurrent, and reinforcement programming across media ecosystems, blurring the lines between nonfiction and fiction.The South Park Example: The South Park episode featuring a Charlie Kirk character being knocked off a chair to the left is highlighted as a conspicuous example of concurrent and predictive programming, elevating Charlie Kirk's profile just in time for the staged event and possibly foreshadowing his alleged fate. The association of this character with Cartman is noted as potentially representing how "the left characterizes the right".Controlled Opposition in Conspiracy Culture: Movements like anti-geo-engineering (chemtrails) are viewed as controlled opposition or a "litmus test" for gullibility, designed to provide the right wing with a political framework, ultimately aligning with the mainstream climate change narrative that "man is destroying the planet". The speaker argues that these popular conspiracy theories are generally fake and political, serving to misdirect those who stray from the mainstream.Fake People and Scripted Roles: Many individuals on the world stage are considered "scripted people" or "plants" who are playing roles in a reality TV show that is an "alternate reality game" inviting audience participation. Figures like Donald Trump and Elon Musk were allegedly foreshadowed in predictive content, suggesting they stepped into pre-existing roles. The activities of people associated with Charlie Kirk (e.g., Erica Kirk, Candace Owens, J.D. Vance) are seen as part of the overall scripted scenario.Combating Visual Illiteracy in the Age of AI: Due to the advancing sophistication of media fakery and AI agents influencing public opinion, relying on visuals to deconstruct a fake event is no longer reliable, necessitating a paradigm shift. Adopting the mindset of "fake until proven real" is crucial to avoid falling into a new dark age of visual illiteracy and remaining susceptible to psychological operations and emotional manipulation.5 Quotes"These are simulated events with significance in terms of our shared history. These are world

Both the Lions and Michigan lose, Eli Zaret joins us as MSU hires Pat Fitzgerald, Tara Reid is a mess, Me-Me-Meghan Markle is a menace, Try Guy Ned Fulmer turns into Cry Guy, and Akaash Singh's wife continues her reign of terror. Eli Zaret joins the show as Michigan falls to the Ohio State Buckeyes, CFB coaching carousel, too much Tom Brady (and why you look different?), MSU's terrible attendance at Ford Field, Jonathan Smith blown OUT, Jordon Hudson at the pump, Michigan basketball wins the Players Era Festival, MSU wins the Fort Myers Tip-Off, the Detroit Lions lose on Thanksgiving, Aidan Hutchinson MIA, Frank Ragnow un-retires and then re-retires, the MLB Winter Meetings, another University of Georgia driving violation, and RIP Fuzzy “Jokester” Zoeller (nice joke, btw). Oh, and Donald Trump nailed a chip shot. The Lions suck, the season is probably over… but Jack White and Eminem rocked the Thanksgiving Halftime show. Drew breaks down the 10 most memorable Thanksgiving Day Halftime Shows. South Park crushed it once again. Ned Fulmer has had a rough time in entertainment recently… so now he turns to his Multiple Sclerosis diagnosis for views. Tara Reid vs YouTuber ‘Sean P'. She's looking great these days. She's totally single now. Why You Look Different?: Kelly Osbourne? Ariana Grande? Kim Mathers? Come out to the Lodge Friday night (9pm – 10pm) to hang with us and support Killer Cares. Amy Schumer is only posting pics of how hot she is thanks to Mounjaro. Hollywood Confidential used our show clips to bash Meghan Markle. Ha ha! She has an As Ever pop-up store at the Soho Home. She has been labeled the ‘Salmonella Sussex'. She'll do anything for a photo op. King Charles wants her to reconnect with Thomas. Akaash Singh's wife remains a human toilet. It's all about Jasleen. Turns out OnlyFans may be problematic for some girls. Jess Brolin is a slob and Drew thinks he looks like Brad Pitt. Gays Against Groomers vs Baltimore teacher James Stilipec. Breaking News: Pat Fitzgerald to MSU. Don't forget to grab your Drew Lane Show merch right here! If you'd like to help support the show… consider subscribing to our YouTube Channel, Facebook, Instagram and Twitter (Drew Lane, Marc Fellhauer, Trudi Daniels, Jim Bentley and BranDon).

For our next entry in the Primus DNA sub-series, we swing for the fences by daring to take on the mighty Rush as a major component of the Primus makeup. Gerry Schramm of the Something For Nothing podcast joins us to make sense of it all, including where to hear elements of each band's hallmarks in the music of the other, the enduring friendship between the two bands, and their commonalities, including killing the party by putting on their albums. Rush fans: Where should Primus fans unfamiliar with the band start?Primus fans: Where should Rush fans unfamiliar with the band start?Hit us up to help with this unscientific study. Get involvedInstagramFacebookEmailBurn your money 

BONUS: When AI Knows Your Emotional Triggers Better Than You Do — Navigating Mindfulness in the AI Age In this thought-provoking conversation, former computer engineer and mindfulness leader Mo Edjlali explores how AI is reshaping human meaning, attention, and decision-making. We examine the critical question: what happens when AI knows your emotional triggers better than you know yourself? Mo shares insights on remaining sovereign over our attention, avoiding dependency in both mindfulness and technology, and preparing for a world where AI may outperform us in nearly every domain. From Technology Pioneer to Mindfulness Leader "I've been very heavily influenced by technology, computer engineering, software development. I introduced DevOps to the federal government. But I have never seen anything change the way in which human beings work together like Agile." — Mo Edjlali   Mo's journey began in the tech world — graduating in 1998, he was on the front line of the internet explosion. He remembers the days before the internet, watched online multiplayer games emerge in 1994, and worked on some of the most complicated tech projects in federal government. Technology felt almost like magic, advancing at a logarithmic rate faster than anything else. But when Mo discovered mindfulness practices 12-15 years ago, he found something equally transformative: actual exercises to develop emotional intelligence and soft skills that the tech world talked about but never taught. Mindfulness provided logical, practical methods that didn't require "woo-woo" beliefs — just practice that fundamentally changed his relationship with his mind. This dual perspective — tech innovator and mindfulness teacher — gives Mo a unique lens for understanding where we're headed. The Shift from Liberation to Dependency "I was fortunate enough, the teachers I was exposed to, the mentality was very much: you're gonna learn how to meditate on your own, in silence. There is no guru. There is no cult of personality." — Mo Edjlali   Mo identifies a dangerous drift in the mindfulness movement: from teaching independence to creating dependency. His early training, particularly a Vipassana retreat led by S.N. Goenka, modeled true liberation — you show up for 10 days, pay nothing, receive food and lodging, learn to meditate, then donate what you can at the end. Critically, you leave being able to meditate on your own without worshiping a teacher or subscribing to guided meditations. But today's commercialized mindfulness often creates the opposite: powerful figures leading fiefdoms, consumers taught to listen to guided meditations rather than meditate independently. This dependency model mirrors exactly what's happening with AI — systems designed to make us rely on them rather than empower our own capabilities. Recognizing this parallel is essential for navigating both fields wisely. AI as a New Human Age, Not Just Another Tool "With AI, this is different. This isn't like mobile computing, this isn't like the internet. We're entering a new age. We had the Bronze Age, the Iron Age, the Industrial Age. When you enter a new age, it's almost like knocking the chess board over, flipping the pieces upside down. We're playing a new game." — Mo Edjlali   Mo frames AI not as another technology upgrade but as the beginning of an entirely new human age. In a new age, everything shifts: currency, economies, government, technology, even religions. The documentary about the Bronze Age collapse taught him that when ages turn over, the old rules no longer apply. This perspective explains why AI feels fundamentally different from previous innovations. ChatGPT 2.0 was interesting; ChatGPT 3 blew Mo's mind and made him realize we're witnessing something unprecedented. While he's optimistic about the potential for sustainable abundance and extraordinary breakthroughs, he's also aware we're entering both the most exciting and most frightening time to be alive. Everything we learned in high school might be proven wrong as AI rewrites human knowledge, translates animal languages, extends longevity, and achieves things we can't even imagine. The Mental Health Tsunami and Loss of Purpose "If we do enter the age of abundance, where AI could do anything that human beings could do and do it better, suddenly the system we have set up — where our purpose is often tied to our income and our job — suddenly, we don't need to work. So what is our purpose?" — Mo Edjlali   Mo offers a provocative vision of the future: a world where people might pay for jobs rather than get paid to work. It sounds crazy until you realize it's already happening — people pay $100,000-$200,000 for college just to get a job, politicians spend millions to get elected. If AI handles most work and we enter an age of abundance, jobs won't be about survival or income — they'll be about meaning, identity, and social connection. This creates three major crises Mo sees accelerating: attacks on our focus and attention (technology hijacking our awareness), polarization (forcing black-and-white thinking), and isolation (pushing us toward solo experiences). The mental health tsunami is coming as people struggle to find purpose in a world where AI outperforms them in domain after domain. The jobs will change, the value systems will shift, and those without tools for navigating this transformation will suffer most. When AI Reads Your Mind "Researchers at Duke University had hooked up fMRI brain scanning technology and took that data and fed it into GPT 2. They were able to translate brain signals into written narrative. So the implications are that we could read people's minds using AI." — Mo Edjlali   The future Mo describes isn't science fiction — it's already beginning. Three years ago, researchers used early GPT to translate brain signals into written text by scanning people's minds with fMRI and training AI on the patterns. Today, AI knows a lot about heavy users like Mo through chat conversations. Tomorrow, AI will have video input of everything we see, sensory input from our biometrics (pulse, heart rate, health indicators), and potentially direct connection to our minds. This symbiotic relationship is coming whether we're ready or not. Mo demonstrates this with a personal experiment: he asked his AI to tell him about himself, describe his personality, identify his strengths, and most powerfully — reveal his blind spots. The AI's response was outstanding, better than what any human (even his therapist or himself) could have articulated. This is the reality we're moving toward: AI that knows our emotional triggers, blind spots, and patterns better than we do ourselves. Using AI as a Mirror for Self-Discovery "I asked my AI, 'What are my blind spots?' Human beings usually won't always tell you what your blind spots are, they might not see them. A therapist might not exactly see them. But the AI has... I've had the most intimate kind of conversations about everything. And the response was outstanding." — Mo Edjlali   Mo's approach to AI is both pragmatic and experimental. He uses it extensively — at the level of teenagers and early college students who are on it all the time. But rather than just using AI as a tool, he treats it as a mirror for understanding himself. Asking AI to identify your blind spots is a powerful exercise because AI has observed all your conversations, patterns, and tendencies without the human limitations of forgetfulness or social politeness. Vasco shares a similar experience using AI as a therapy companion — not replacing his human therapist, but preparing for sessions and processing afterward. This reveals an essential truth: most of us don't understand ourselves that well. We're blind navigators using an increasingly powerful tool. The question isn't whether AI will know us better than we know ourselves — that's already happening. The question is how we use that knowledge wisely. The Danger of AI Hijacking Our Agency "There's this real danger. I saw that South Park episode about ChatGPT where his wife is like, 'Come on, put the AI down, talk to me,' and he's got this crazy business idea, and the AI keeps encouraging him along. It's a point where he's relying way too heavily on the AI and making really poor decisions." — Mo Edjlali   Not all AI use is beneficial. Mo candidly admits his own mistakes — sometimes leaning into AI feedback over his actual users' feedback for his Meditate Together app because "I like what the AI is saying." This mirrors the South Park episode's warning about AI dependency, where the character's AI encourages increasingly poor decisions while his relationships suffer. Social media demonstrates this danger at scale: AI algorithms tuned to steal our attention and hijack our agency, preventing us from thinking about what truly matters — relationships and human connection. Mo shares a disturbing story about Zoom bombers disrupting Meditate Together sessions, filming it, posting it on YouTube where it got 90,000 views, with comments thanking the disruptors for "making my day better." Technology created a cannibalistic dynamic where teenagers watched videos of their mothers, aunts, and grandmothers being harassed during meditation. When Mo tried to contact Google, the company's incentive structure prioritized views and revenue over human decency. Technology combined with capitalism creates these dangerous momentum toward monetizing attention at any cost. Remaining Sovereign Over Your Attention "Traditionally, mindfulness does an extraordinary job, if you practice right, to help you regain your agency of your focus and concentration. It takes practice. But reading is now becoming a concentration practice. It's an actual practice." — Mo Edjlali   Mo identifies three major symptoms affecting us: attacks on focus/attention, polarization into black-and-white thinking, and isolation. Mindfulness practices directly counter all three — but only if practiced correctly. Training attention, focus, and concentration requires actual practice, not just listening to guided meditations. Mo offers practical strategies: reading as concentration practice (asking "does anyone read anymore?" recognizing that sustained reading now requires deliberate effort), turning off AirPods while jogging or driving to find silence, spending time alone with your thoughts, and recognizing that we were given extraordinary power (smartphones) with zero training on how to be aware of it. Older generations remember having to rewind VHS tapes — forced moments of patience and stillness that no longer exist. We need to deliberately recreate those spaces where we're not constantly consuming entertainment and input. Dialectic Thinking: Beyond Polarization "I saw someone the other day wear a shirt that said, 'I'm perfect the way I am.' That's one-dimensional thinking. Two-dimensional thinking is: you're perfect the way that you are, and you could be a little better." — Mo Edjlali   Mo's book OpenMBSR specifically addresses polarization by introducing dialectic thinking — the ability to hold paradoxes and seeming contradictions simultaneously. Social media and algorithms push us toward one-dimensional, black-and-white thinking: good/bad, right/wrong, with me/against me. But reality is far more nuanced. The ability to think "I'm perfect as I am AND I can improve" or "AI is extraordinary AND dangerous" is essential for navigating complexity. This mirrors the tech world's embrace of continuous improvement in Agile — accepting where you are while always pushing for better. Chess players learned this years ago when AI defeated humans — they didn't freak out, they accepted it and adapted. Now AI in chess doesn't just give answers; it helps humans understand how it arrived at those answers. This partnership model, where AI coaches us through complexity rather than simply replacing us, represents the healthiest path forward. Building Community, Not Dependency "When people think to meditate, unfortunately, they think, I have to do this by myself and listen to guided meditation. I'm saying no. Do it in silence. If you listen to guided meditation, listen to guided meditation that teaches you how to meditate in silence. And do it with other people, with intentional community." — Mo Edjlali   Mo's OpenMBSR initiative explicitly borrows from the Agile movement's success: grassroots, community-centric, open source, transparent. Rather than creating fiefdoms around cult personalities, he wants mindfulness to spread organically through communities helping communities. This directly counters the isolation trend that technology accelerates. Meditate Together exists specifically to create spaces where people meditate with other human beings around the world, with volunteer hosts holding sessions. The model isn't about dependency on a teacher or platform — it's about building connection and shared practice. This aligns perfectly with how the tech world revolutionized collaborative work through Agile and Scrum: transparent, iterative, valuing individuals and interactions. The question for both mindfulness and AI adoption is whether we'll create systems that empower independence and community, or ones that foster dependency and isolation. Preparing for a World Where AI Outperforms Humans "AI is going to need to kind of coach us and ease us into it, right? There's some really dark, ugly things about ourselves that could be jarring without it being properly shared, exposed, and explained." — Mo Edjlali   Looking at his children, Mo wonders what tools they'll need in a world where AI may outperform humans in nearly every domain. The answer isn't trying to compete with AI in calculation, memory, or analysis — that battle is already lost. Instead, the essential human skills become self-awareness, emotional intelligence, dialectic thinking, community building, and maintaining agency over attention and decision-making. AI will need to become a coach, helping humans understand not just answers but how it arrived at those answers. This requires AI development that prioritizes human growth over profit maximization. It also requires humans willing to do the hard work of understanding themselves — confronting blind spots, managing emotional triggers, practicing concentration, and building genuine relationships. The mental health tsunami Mo predicts isn't inevitable if we prepare now by teaching these skills widely, building community-centric systems, and designing AI that empowers rather than replaces human wisdom and connection.   About Mo Edjlali   Mo Edjlali is a former computer engineer, and also the founder and CEO of Mindful Leader, the world's largest provider of Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction training. Mo's new book Open MBSR: Reimagining the Future of Mindfulness explores how ancient practices can help us navigate the AI revolution with awareness and resilience.   You can learn more about Mo and his work at MindfulLeader.org, check out Meditate Together, and read his articles on AI's Mind-Reading Breakthrough and AI: Not Another Tool, but a New Human Age.

Nov. 28-Dec. 4: South Park's Christmas origin, Andy Garcia is doing things in Denver, Jeff Bridges is Wild Bill, a ton of terrible Xmas specials, John Cusack's holiday heist, Oprah and Letterman beef, Spike Lee gets Greek, Superstore debuts and Bill Murray toasts Netflix. All that and more from 30, 20, and 10 years ago. 

Ep:100 "LIVE From The Bunker Theater" * = Improvised SketchAlex welcomes the live audience to the theater and intros a video he had made to celebrate the 100th episode occasion. 1st Guest is OG, Stephanie S, who instigates a disagreement about the origins of JEST ImprovTron tries out the JEST TRIVIA -- Winners get a 100th episode T-Shirt*Canadian Wedding Ceremony - The Moose complain2nd Guest is Maddy K, who brings her extensive knowledge of current Pop Culture, including the Wicked-2 movie.*Cinema Lobby - Special popcorn deal and unique toppings.*Maddy in the Office - Maddy's has a social media posting discussion at work with her bosses.*Commenting on Social Media Posts to connect with an in-person meeting - Guest appearance by "Gene Simmons,"*The "Mean Ones" live the longest - "Gene Simmons" origin story3rd Guest is Emily K, who is handy with tools*"Emily" interviewing Emily*Emily is becoming a "Cat Person" and gets a call from her roommate, "Jenna."*The Russians infiltrate the "Yesties Podcast"*Chris's anti-boring Intervention leads to instigating a bar fight with his new friend, Russky RyanMore Trivia4th and final Guest is Aries H - and the Hosts attempt to do Aries Impressions, then discuss his meal plans*"Aries's" and his Mom make plans for a new, more efficient feeding method*"How Are Your Humors?" A visit to the doctor, leads to visits to other doctorsFinal Q&A*"Cleveland" has a discussion with Alex and "Carly" about stealing cheese and getting a 5th cat Thank you for listening. LIke what you hear? Want to hear something more? Drop us a comment at https://www.jestimprov.com/podcast Let us know if you want a mention in our episode, we'll do our best to give you a shout-out.Visit us anytime at https://www.jestimprov.com to find out more about us in Ventura, CA - including when to drop-in for classes and shows!

Check out my sit down with South Park HC Brian Guzek

Protože se nám na poslední chvíli odpadlo hráčstvo na speciální dračákový díl, vymysleli jsme neméně kvalitní téma: animované seriály a filmy, které z naší generace viděl asi každý, dokonce včetně Dominika. S Jardou a Žofkou, kteří měli čas a chuť přijít, se v první půlce se bavíme o japonském anime (hokajdó) a jestli do něj počítat Pokémony, jestli jsou Simpsonovi dobří i v aktuální 97. sérii a jestli má smysl koukat na South Park.Ve druhé polovině na našem herohero pak dojde na sexuální probouzení prostřednictvím seriálu Špionky, tolik populární umělecký žánr hentai i rozbor toho, kdo je vlastně Mickey Mouse. Na konci se pak dělíme o tipy na náš oblíbený animovaný konŤas.P.S.: Trochu experimentujeme s procesováním zvuku - kdyby to místy znělo tzv. zprdele, omlouváme se a děkujeme Magdě s Jirkou, kteří s dodaným materiálem dělali, co mohli.

In this Episode Ruben Breaks Down Eddington, an uneven messy Satire from Ari Aster starring Joaquin Phoenix and Pedro Pascal. a Consistently interesting movie even if it's satire doesn't always work.

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In this episode, Kelly Brownell speaks with Jerold Mande, CEO of Nourish Science, adjunct professor at the Harvard School of Public Health, and former Deputy Undersecretary for Food Safety at the USDA. They discuss the alarming state of children's health in America, the challenges of combating poor nutrition, and the influence of the food industry on public policy. The conversation explores the parallels between the tobacco and food industries and proposes new strategies for ensuring children reach adulthood in good health. Mande emphasizes the need for radical changes in food policy and the role of public health in making these changes. Transcript So, you co-founded this organization along with Jerome Adams, Bill Frist and Thomas Grumbly, as we said, to ensure every child breaches age 18 at a healthy weight and in good metabolic health. That's a pretty tall order given the state of the health of youth today in America. But let's start by you telling us what inspired this mission and what does it look like to achieve this in today's food environment? I was trained in public health and also in nutrition and in my career, which has been largely in service of the public and government, I've been trying to advance those issues. And unfortunately over the arc of my career from when I started to now, particularly in nutrition and public health, it's just gotten so much worse. Indeed today Americans have the shortest lifespans by far. We're not just last among the wealthy countries, but we're a standard deviation last. But probably most alarming of all is how sick our children are. Children should not have a chronic disease. Yet in America maybe a third do. I did some work on tobacco at one point, at FDA. That was an enormous success. It was the leading cause of death. Children smoked at a higher rate, much like child chronic disease today. About a third of kids smoked. And we took that issue on, and today it's less than 2%. And so that shows that government can solve these problems. And since we did our tobacco work in the early '90s, I've changed my focus to nutrition and public health and trying to fix that. But we've still made so little progress. Give us a sense of how far from that goal we are. So, if the goal is to make every child reaching 18 at a healthy weight and in good metabolic health, what percentage of children reaching age 18 today might look like that? It's probably around a half or more, but we're not quite sure. We don't have good statistics. One of the challenges we face in nutrition is, unfortunately, the food industry or other industries lobby against funding research and data collection. And so, we're handicapped in that way. But we do know from the studies that CDC and others have done that about 20% of our children have obesity about a similar number have Type 2 diabetes or the precursors, pre-diabetes. You and I started off calling it adult-onset diabetes and they had to change that name to a Type 2 because it's becoming so common in kids. And then another disease, fatty liver disease, really unthinkable in kids. Something that the typical pediatrician would just never see. And yet in the last decade, children are the fastest growing group. I think we don't know an exact number, but today, at least a third, maybe as many as half of our children have a chronic disease. Particularly a food cause chronic disease, or the precursors that show they're on the way. I remember probably going back about 20 years, people started saying that we were seeing the first generation of American children that would lead shorter lives than our parents did. And what a terrible legacy to leave our children. Absolutely. And that's why we set that overarching goal of ensuring every child reaches age 18 in good metabolic health. And the reason we set that is in my experience in government, there's a phrase we all use - what gets measured gets done. And when I worked at FDA, when I worked at USDA, what caught my attention is that there is a mission statement. There's a goal of what we're trying to achieve. And it's ensuring access to healthy options and information, like a food label. Now the problem with that, first of all, it's failed. But the problem with that is the bureaucrats that I oversaw would go into a supermarket, see a produce section, a protein section, the food labels, which I worked on, and say we've done our job. They would check those boxes and say, we've done it. And yet we haven't. And if we ensured that every child reaches age 18 at a healthy weight and good metabolic health, if the bureaucrats say how are we doing on that? They would have to conclude we're failing, and they'd have to try something else. And that's what we need to do. We need to try radically different, new strategies because what we've been doing for decades has failed. You mentioned the food industry a moment ago. Let's talk about that in a little more detail. You made the argument that food companies have substituted profits for health in how they design their products. Explain that a little bit more, if you will. And tell us how the shift has occurred and what do you think the public health cost has been? Yes, so the way I like to think of it, and your listeners should think of it, is there's a North star for food design. And from a consumer standpoint, I think there are four points on the star: taste, cost, convenience, and health. That's what they expect and want from their food. Now the challenge is the marketplace. Because that consumer, you and I, when we go to the grocery store and get home on taste, cost, and convenience, if we want within an hour, we can know whether the food we purchased met our standard there. Or what our expectations were. Not always for health. There's just no way to know in a day, a week, a month, even in a year or more. We don't know if the food we're eating is improving and maintaining our health, right? There should be a definition of food. Food should be what we eat to thrive. That really should be the goal. I borrowed that from NASA, the space agency. When I would meet with them, they said, ' Jerry, it's important. Right? It's not enough that people just survive on the food they eat in space. They really need to thrive.' And that's what WE need to do. And that's really what food does, right? And yet we have food, not only don't we thrive, but we get sick. And the reason for that is, as I was saying, the marketplace works on taste, cost and convenience. So, companies make sure their products meet consumer expectation for those three. But the problem is on the fourth point on the star: on health. Because we can't tell in even years whether it's meeting our expectation. That sort of cries out. You're at a policy school. Those are the places where government needs to step in and act and make sure that the marketplace is providing. That feedback through government. But the industry is politically strong and has prevented that. And so that has left the fourth point of the star open for their interpretation. And my belief is that they've put in place a prop. So, they're making decisions in the design of the product. They're taste, they gotta get taste right. They gotta get cost and convenience right. But rather than worrying what does it do to your health? They just, say let's do a profit. And that's resulted in this whole category of food called ultra-processed food (UPF). I actually believe in the future, whether it's a hundred years or a thousand years. If humanity's gonna thrive we need manmade food we can thrive on. But we don't have that. And we don't invest in the science. We need to. But today, ultra-processed food is manmade food designed on taste, cost, convenience, and then how do we make the most money possible. Now, let me give you one other analogy, if I could. If we were CEOs of an automobile company, the mission is to provide vehicles where people can get safely from A to point B. It's the same as food we can thrive on. That is the mission. The problem is that when the food companies design food today, they've presented to the CEO, and everyone gets excited. They're seeing the numbers, the charts, the data that shows that this food is going to meet, taste, cost, convenience. It's going to make us all this money. But the CEO should be asking this following question: if people eat this as we intend, will they thrive? At the very least they won't get sick, right? Because the law requires they can't get sick. And if the Midmanagers were honest, they'd say here's the good news boss. We have such political power we've been able to influence the Congress and the regulatory agencies. That they're not going to do anything about it. Taste, cost, convenience, and profits will work just fine. Couldn't you make the argument that for a CEO to embrace that kind of attitude you talked about would be corporate malpractice almost? That, if they want to maximize profits then they want people to like the food as much as possible. That means engineering it in ways that make people overeat it, hijacking the reward pathways in the brain, and all that kind of thing. Why in the world would a CEO care about whether people thrive? Because it's the law. The law requires we have these safety features in cars and the companies have to design it that way. And there's more immediate feedback with the car too, in terms of if you crashed right away. Because it didn't work, you'd see that. But here's the thing. Harvey Wiley.He's the founder of the food safety programs that I led at FDA and USDA. He was a chemist from academia. Came to USDA in the late 1800s. It was a time of great change in food in America. At that point, almost all of families grew their own food on a farm. And someone had to decide who's going to grow our food. It's a family conversation that needed to take place. Increasingly, Americans were moving into the cities at that time, and a brand-new industry had sprung up to feed people in cities. It was a processed food industry. And in order to provide shelf stable foods that can offer taste, cost, convenience, this new processed food industry turned to another new industry, a chemical industry. Now, it's hard to believe this, but there was a point in time that just wasn't an industry. So these two big new industries had sprung up- processed food and chemicals. And Harvey Wiley had a hypothesis that the chemicals they were using to make these processed foods were making us sick. Indeed, food poisoning back then was one of the 10 leading causes of death. And so, Harvey Wiley went to Teddy Roosevelt. He'd been trying for years within the bureaucracy and not making progress. But when Teddy Roosevelt came in, he finally had the person who listened to him. Back then, USDA was right across from the Washington Monument to the White House. He'd walk right over there into the White House and met with Teddy Roosevelt and said, ' this food industry is making us sick. We should do something about it.' And Teddy Roosevelt agreed. And they wrote the laws. And so I think what your listeners need to understand is that when you look at the job that FDA and USDA is doing, their food safety programs were created to make sure our food doesn't make us sick. Acutely sick. Not heart disease or cancer, 30, 40 years down the road, but acutely sick. No. I think that's absolutely the point. That's what Wiley was most concerned about at the time. But that's not the law they wrote. The law doesn't say acutely ill. And I'll give you this example. Your listeners may be familiar with something called GRAS - Generally Recognized as Safe. It's a big problem today. Industry co-opted the system and no longer gets approval for their food additives. And so, you have this Generally Recognized as Safe system, and you have these chemicals and people are worried about them. In the history of GRAS. Only one chemical has FDA decided we need to get that off the market because it's unsafe. That's partially hydrogenated oils or trans-fat. Does trans-fat cause acute illness? It doesn't. It causes a chronic disease. And the evidence is clear. The agency has known that it has the responsibility for both acute and chronic illness. But you're right, the industry has taken advantage of this sort of chronic illness space to say that that really isn't what you should be doing. But having worked at those agencies, I don't think they see it that way. They just feel like here's the bottom line on it. The industry uses its political power in Congress. And it shapes the agency's budget. So, let's take FDA. FDA has a billion dollars with a 'b' for food safety. For the acute food safety, you're talking about. It has less than 25 million for the chronic disease. There are about 1400 deaths a year in America due to the acute illnesses caused by our food that FDA and USDA are trying to prevent. The chronic illnesses that we know are caused by our food cause 1600 maybe a day. More than that of the acute every day. Now the agency should be spending at least half its time, if not more, worrying about those chronic illness. Why doesn't it? Because the industry used their political power in Congress to put the billion dollars for the acute illness. That's because if you get acutely ill, that's a liability concern for them. Jerry let's talk about the political influence in just a little more detail, because you're in a unique position to tell us about this because you've seen it from the inside. One mechanism through which industry might influence the political process is lobbyists. They hire lobbyists. Lobbyists get to the Congress. People make decisions based on contributions and things like that. Are there other ways the food industry affects the political process in addition to that. For example, what about the revolving door issue people talk about where industry people come into the administrative branch of government, not legislative branch, and then return to industry. And are there other ways that the political influence of the industry has made itself felt? I think first and foremost it is the lobbyists, those who work with Congress, in effect. Particularly the funding levels, and the authority that the agencies have to do that job. I think it's overwhelmingly that. I think second, is the influence the industry has. So let me back up to that a sec. As a result of that, we spend very little on nutrition research, for example. It's 4% of the NIH budget even though we have these large institutes, cancer, heart, diabetes, everyone knows about. They're trying to come up with the cures who spend the other almost 50 billion at NIH. And so, what happens? You and I have both been at universities where there are nutrition programs and what we see is it's very hard to not accept any industry money to do the research because there isn't the federal money. Now, the key thing, it's not an accident. It's part of the plan. And so, I think that the research that we rely on to do regulation is heavily influenced by industry. And it's broad. I've served, you have, others, on the national academies and the programs. When I've been on the inside of those committees, there are always industry retired scientists on those committees. And they have undue influence. I've seen it. Their political power is so vast. The revolving door, that is a little of both ways. I think the government learns from the revolving door as well. But you're right, some people leave government and try to undo that. Now, I've chosen to work in academia when I'm not in government. But I think that does play a role, but I don't think it plays the largest role. I think the thing that people should be worried about is how much influence it has in Congress and how that affects the agency's budgets. And that way I feel that agencies are corrupted it, but it's not because they're corrupted directly by the industry. I think it's indirectly through congress. I'd like to get your opinion on something that's always relevant but is time sensitive now. And it's dietary guidelines for America. And the reason I'm saying it's time sensitive is because the current administration will be releasing dietary guidelines for America pretty soon. And there's lots of discussion about what those might look like. How can they help guide food policy and industry practices to support healthier children and families? It's one of the bigger levers the government has. The biggest is a program SNAP or food stamps. But beyond that, the dietary guidelines set the rules for government spending and food. So, I think often the way the dietary guidelines are portrayed isn't quite accurate. People think of it in terms of the once (food) Pyramid now the My Plate that's there. That's the public facing icon for the dietary guidelines. But really a very small part. The dietary guidelines are meant to help shape federal policy, not so much public perception. It's there. It's used in education in our schools - the (My) Plate, previously the (Food) Pyramid. But the main thing is it should shape what's served in government feeding programs. So principally that should be SNAP. It's not. But it does affect the WIC program- Women, Infants and Children, the school meals program, all of the military spending on food. Indeed, all spending by the government on food are set, governed by, or directed by the dietary guidelines. Now some of them are self-executing. Once the dietary guidelines change the government changes its behavior. But the biggest ones are not. They require rulemaking and in particular, today, one of the most impactful is our kids' meals in schools. So, whatever it says in these dietary guidelines, and there's reason to be alarmed in some of the press reports, it doesn't automatically change what's in school meals. The Department of Agriculture would have to write a rule and say that the dietary guidelines have changed and now we want to update. That usually takes an administration later. It's very rare one administration could both change the dietary guidelines and get through the rulemaking process. So, people can feel a little reassured by that. So, how do you feel about the way things seem to be taking shape right now? This whole MAHA movement Make America Healthy Again. What is it? To me what it is we've reached this tipping point we talked about earlier. The how sick we are, and people are saying, 'enough. Our food shouldn't make us sick at middle age. I shouldn't have to be spending so much time with my doctor. But particularly, it shouldn't be hard to raise my kids to 18 without getting sick. We really need to fix that and try to deal with that.' But I think that the MAHA movement is mostly that. But RFK and some of the people around them have increasingly claimed that it means some very specific things that are anti-science. That's been led by the policies around vaccine that are clearly anti-science. Nutrition is more and more interesting. Initially they started out in the exact right place. I think you and I could agree the things they were saying they need to focus on: kids, the need to get ultra-processed food out of our diets, were all the right things. In fact, you look at the first report that RFK and his team put out back in May this year after the President put out an Executive Order. Mostly the right things on this. They again, focus on kids, ultra-processed food was mentioned 40 times in the report as the root cause for the very first time. And this can't be undone. You had the White House saying that the root cause of our food-caused chronic disease crisis is the food industry. That's in a report that won't change. But a lot has changed since then. They came out with a second report where the word ultra-processed food showed up only once. What do you think happened? I know what happened because I've worked in that setting. The industry quietly went to the White House, the top political staff in the White House, and they said, you need to change the report when you come out with the recommendations. And so, the first report, I think, was written by MAHA, RFK Jr. and his lieutenants. The second report was written by the White House staff with the lobbyists of the food industry. That's what happened. What you end up with is their version of it. So, what does the industry want? We have a good picture from the first Trump administration. They did the last dietary guidelines and the Secretary of Agriculture, then Sonny Perdue, his mantra to his staff, people reported to me, was the industries- you know, keep the status quo. That is what the industry wants is they really don't want the dietary guidelines to change because then they have to reformulate their products. And they're used to living with what we have and they're just comfortable with that. For a big company to reformulate a product is a multi-year effort and cost billions of dollars and it's just not what they want to have to do. Particularly if it's going to change from administration to administration. And that is not a world they want to live in. From the first and second MAHA report where they wanted to go back to the status quo away from all the radical ideas. It'll be interesting to see what happens with dietary guidelines because we've seen reports that RFK Jr. and his people want to make shifts in policies. Saying that they want to go back to the Pyramid somehow. There's a cartoon on TV, South Park, I thought it was produced to be funny. But they talked about what we need to do is we need to flip the Pyramid upside down and we need to go back to the old Pyramid and make saturated fat the sort of the core of the diet. I thought it meant to be a joke but apparently that's become a belief of some people in the MAHA movement. RFK. And so, they want to add saturated fat back to our diets. They want to get rid of plant oils from our diets. There is a lot of areas of nutrition where the science isn't settled. But that's one where it is, indeed. Again, you go back only 1950s, 1960s, you look today, heart disease, heart attacks, they're down 90%. Most of that had to do with the drugs and getting rid of smoking. But a substantial contribution was made by nutrition. Lowering saturated fat in our diets and replacing it with plant oils that they're now called seed oils. If they take that step and the dietary guidelines come out next month and say that saturated fat is now good for us it is going to be just enormously disruptive. I don't think companies are going to change that much. They'll wait it out because they'll ask themselves the question, what's it going to be in two years? Because that's how long it takes them to get a product to market. Jerry, let me ask you this. You painted this picture where every once in a while, there'll be a glimmer of hope. Along comes MAHA. They're critical of the food industry and say that the diet's making us sick and therefore we should focus on different things like ultra-processed foods. In report number one, it's mentioned 40 times. Report number two comes out and it's mentioned only once for the political reasons you said. Are there any signs that lead you to be hopeful that this sort of history doesn't just keep repeating itself? Where people have good ideas, there's science that suggests you go down one road, but the food industry says, no, we're going to go down another and government obeys. Are there any signs out there that lead you to be more hopeful for the future? There are signs to be hopeful for the future. And number one, we talked earlier, is the success we had regulating tobacco. And I know you've done an outstanding job over the years drawing the parallels between what happened in tobacco and food. And there are good reasons to do that. Not the least of which is that in the 1980s, the tobacco companies bought all the big food companies and imparted on them a lot of their lessons, expertise, and playbook about how to do these things. And so that there is a tight link there. And we did succeed. We took youth smoking, which was around a 30 percent, a third, when we began work on this in the early 1990s when I was at FDA. And today it's less than 2%. It's one area with the United States leads the world in terms of what we've achieved in public health. And there's a great benefit that's going to come to that over the next generation as all of those deaths are prevented that we're not quite seeing yet. But we will. And that's regardless of what happens with vaping, which is a whole different story about nicotine. But this idea success and tobacco. The food industry has a tobacco playbook about how to addict so many people and make so much money and use their political power. We have a playbook of how to win the public health fight. So, tell us about that. What you're saying is music to my ears and I'm a big believer in exactly what you're saying. So, what is it? What does that playbook look like and what did we learn from the tobacco experience that you think could apply into the food area? There are a couple of areas. One is going to be leadership and we'll have to come back to that. Because the reason we succeeded in tobacco was the good fortune of having a David Kessler at FDA and Al Gore as Vice President. Nothing was, became more important to them than winning this fight against a big tobacco. Al Gore because his sister died at a young age of smoking. And David Kessler became convinced that this was the most important thing for public health that he could do. And keep in mind, when he came to FDA, it was the furthest thing from his mind. So, one of it is getting these kinds of leaders. Did does RFK Jr. and Marty McCarey match up to Al Gore? And we'll see. But the early signs aren't that great. But we'll see. There's still plenty of time for them to do this and get it right. The other thing is having a good strategy and policy about how to do it. And here, with tobacco, it was a complete stretch, right? There was no where did the FDA get authority over tobacco? And indeed, we eventually needed the Congress to reaffirm that authority to have the success we did. As we talked earlier, there's no question FDA was created to make sure processed food and the additives and processed food don't make us sick. So, it is the core reason the agency exists is to make sure that if there's a thing called ultra-processed food, man-made food, that is fine, but we have to thrive when we eat it. We certainly can't be made sick when we eat it. Now, David Kessler, I mentioned, he's put forward a petition, a citizens' petition to FDA. Careful work by him, he put months of effort into this, and he wrote basically a detailed roadmap for RFK and his team to use if they want to regulate ultra-processed stuff food. And I think we've gotten some, initially good feedback from the MAHA RFK people that they're interested in this petition and may take action on it. So, the basic thrust of the Kessler petition from my understanding is that we need to reconsider what's considered Generally Recognized as Safe. And that these ultra-processed foods may not be considered safe any longer because they produce all this disease down the road. And if MAHA responds positively initially to the concept, that's great. And maybe that'll have legs, and something will actually happen. But is there any reason to believe the industry won't just come in and quash this like they have other things? This idea of starting with a petition in the agency, beginning an investigation and using its authority is the blueprint we used with tobacco. There was a petition we responded, we said, gee, you raised some good points. There are other things we put forward. And so, what we hope to see here with the Kessler petition is that the FDA would put out what's called an advanced notice of a proposed rulemaking with the petition. This moves it from just being a petition to something the agency is saying, we're taking this seriously. We're putting it on the record ourselves and we want industry and others now to start weighing in. Now here's the thing, you have this category of ultra-processed food that because of the North Star I talked about before, because the industry, the marketplace has failed and gives them no incentive to make sure that we thrive, that keeps us from getting sick. They've just forgotten about that and put in place profits instead. The question is how do you get at ultra-processed food? What's the way to do it? How do you start holding the industry accountable? Now what RFK and the MAHA people started with was synthetic color additives. That wasn't what I would pick but, it wasn't a terrible choice. Because if you talk to Carlos Monteiro who coined the phrase ultra-processed food, and you ask him, what is an ultra-processed food, many people say it's this industrial creation. You can't find the ingredients in your kitchen. He agrees with all that, but he thinks the thing that really sets ultra-processed food, the harmful food, is the cosmetics that make them edible when they otherwise won't I've seen inside the plants where they make the old fashioned minimally processed food versus today's ultra-processed. In the minimally processed plants, I recognize the ingredients as food. In today's plants, you don't recognize anything. There are powders, there's sludges, there's nothing that you would really recognize as food going into it. And to make that edible, they use the cosmetics and colors as a key piece of that. But here's the problem. It doesn't matter if the color is synthetic or natural. And a fruit loop made with natural colors is just as bad for you as one made with synthetics. And indeed, it's been alarming that the agency has fast tracked these natural colors and as replacements because, cyanide is natural. We don't want to use that. And the whole approach has been off and it like how is this going to get us there? How is this focus on color additives going to get us there. And it won't. Yeah, I agree. I agree with your interpretation of that. But the thing with Kessler you got part of it right but the main thing he did is say you don't have to really define ultra-processed food, which is another industry ploy to delay action. Let's focus on the thing that's making us sick today. And that's the refined carbohydrates. The refined grains in food. That's what's most closely linked to the obesity, the diabetes we're seeing today. Now in the 1980s, the FDA granted, let's set aside sugar and white flour, for example, but they approved a whole slew of additives that the companies came forward with to see what we can add to the white flour and sugar to make it shelf stable, to meet all the taste, cost, and convenience considerations we have. And profit-making considerations we have. Back then, heart disease was the driving health problem. And so, it was easy to overlook why you didn't think that the these additives were really harmful. That then you could conclude whether Generally Recognized as Safe, which is what the agency did back then. What Kessler is saying is that what he's laid out in his petition is self-executing. It's not something that the agency grants that this is GRAS or not GRAS. They were just saying things that have historical safe use that scientists generally recognize it as safe. It's not something the agency decides. It's the universe of all of us scientists generally accept. And it's true in the '80s when we didn't face the obesity and diabetes epidemic, people didn't really focus on the refined carbohydrates. But if you look at today's food environment. And I hope you agree with this, that what is the leading driver in the food environment about what is it about ultra-processed food that's making us so sick? It's these refined grains and the way they're used in our food. And so, if the agency takes up the Kessler petition and starts acting on it, they don't have to change the designation. Maybe at some point they have to say some of these additives are no longer GRAS. But what Kessler's saying is by default, they're no longer GRAS because if you ask the scientists today, can we have this level of refined grains? And they'd say, no, that's just not Generally Recognized as Safe. So, he's pointing out that status, they no longer hold that status. And if the agency would recognize that publicly and the burden shifts where Wiley really always meant it to be, on the industry to prove that there are foods or things that we would thrive on, but that wouldn't make us sick. And so that's the key point that you go back to when you said, and you're exactly right that if you let the industry use their political power to just ignore health altogether and substitute profits, then you're right. Their sort of fiduciary responsibility is just to maximize profits and they can ignore health. If you say you can maximize profits, of course you're a capitalist business, but one of the tests you have to clear is you have to prove to us that people can thrive when they eat that. Thrive as the standard, might require some congressional amplification because it's not in the statute. But what is in the statute is the food can't make you sick. If scientists would generally recognize, would say, if you eat this diet as they intend, if you eat this snack food, there's these ready to heat meals as they intend, you're going to get diabetes and obesity. If scientists generally believe that, then you can't sell that. That's just against the law and the agency needs them to enforce the law. Bio:   Jerold Mande is CEO of Nourish Science; Adjunct Professor of Nutrition, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health; and a Non-Resident Senior Fellow, Tisch College of Civic Life, Tufts University. Professor Mande has a wealth of expertise and experience in national public health and food policy. He served in senior policymaking positions for three presidents at USDA, FDA, and OSHA helping lead landmark public health initiatives. In 2009, he was appointed by President Obama as USDA Deputy Under Secretary for Food Safety. In 2011, he moved to USDA's Food, Nutrition, and Consumer Services, where he spent six years working to improve the health outcomes of the nation's $100 billion investment in 15 nutrition programs. During President Clinton's administration, Mr. Mande was Senior Advisor to the FDA commissioner where he helped shape national policy on nutrition, food safety, and tobacco. He also served on the White House staff as a health policy advisor and was Deputy Assistant Secretary for Occupational Health at the Department of Labor. During the George H.W. Bush administration he led the graphic design of the iconic Nutrition Facts label at FDA, for which he received the Presidential Design Award. Mr. Mande began his career as a legislative assistant for Al Gore in the U.S. House and Senate, managing Gore's health and environment agenda, and helping Gore write the nation's organ donation and transplantation laws.  Mande earned a Master of Public Health from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a Bachelor of Science in nutritional science from the University of Connecticut. Prior to his current academic appointments, he served on the faculty at the Tufts, Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy, and Yale School of Medicine.

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Listen below or click here for full show notes Paramount+ Plans Price Increase in Early 2026 as It Doubles Down on Content Main Mission, Part 1 (with an appropriate sound effect) Star Trek: KhanEpisode 6“The Good Of All”Written by Kirsten Beyer & David MackBased on a story by Nicholas MeyerDirected by Fred Greenhalgh [Green-haulch] Subspace Chatter Paramount Developing “New Take” Star Trek Film From ‘Spider-Man: Homecoming' Duo – TrekMovie.com All the ‘Star Trek’ Movies Paramount Has Said It’s Trying to Make Lately A new era begins for Star Trek, with directors & writers hired for new movie franchise | Popverse New ‘Star Trek’ Film In Works From Jonathan Goldstein & John Francis Daley New ‘Star Trek’ Movie the Works From Paramount New Star Trek movie in the works at Paramount from the duo behind Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves 16 Years Later, The Shocking New Star Trek Movie Could Fix The Movie Franchise Second City’s new Star Trek-inspired improv show hits the stage – YouTube I Can’t Stop Staring at the Hilariously Horrifying Moopsy Death Animation From ‘Star Trek Online’ Moopsy Joins Star Trek Online! – YouTube STAR TREK: PRODIGY, Kate Mulgrew Nominated for Emmy Awards – TrekCore.com Exclusive: Writer Confirms ‘Star Trek: Khan' Is Being Treated As Canon, Talks Potential Future Audio Series – TrekMovie.com NickALive!: Shinsegae, Paramount Set to Build New Theme Park Complex In South Korea Star Trek: Infection – Official Trailer | VR Games Showcase Fall 2025 – IGN In Vulcan, Alberta, Canada news… The 8 Friendliest Little Towns In Alberta Upcoming Events & Holidays in Vulcan CPKC Holiday Train (Dec 13, 2025): The famous holiday train is scheduled to stop in Vulcan on December 13. Be aware that there will be temporary street closures in the area to accommodate the crowd and festivities. “Jingle All The 5K”: The town is gearing up for its second annual Santa Claus 5K run/walk. While the registration deadline was recently (November 15), the event is a key part of the town’s winter holiday kickoff. Here are links to over 80 additional stories.broken out by series, movies and other categories. CLASSIC TV SERIES (in order of premiere) Star Trek: The Original Series (1966 – 1969) [3 seasons] Here’s Why the BBC Banned ‘Star Trek’ … and Yvonne Craig! Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987 – 1994) [7 seasons] Star Trek Predicted It: 35 Years Ago, the Series Already Imagined the Mind-boggling Misuses of Artificial Intelligence – 3DVF STREAMING SERIES AND MOVIES (in order of premiere) Star trek: Prodigy (2021 – 2024) [2 seasons] Star Trek’s decision to abandon its highest-rated show will never stop confusing me Star Trek: Strange New Worlds (2022 – present) [4th season yet to premier, 5th/final season filming] Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Cast Tease the Show’s ‘Bittersweet' End Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Season 3’s Surprising Death Toll Revealed Star Trek: Strange New Worlds – Best Episodes For Each Main Character ‘Star Trek: Strange New Worlds' Final Season Hits Production Milestone; Watch Anson Mount BTS Video – TrekMovie.com Star Trek Scouts (2025 – present) (3) Star Trek Scouts Chomp Through a Bubble Gum Asteroid! | Asteroid Blasters #8 | Star Trek: Scouts – YouTube Star Trek: Starfleet Academy [1st season early 2026 premier announced, 2nd season season in production] Sonequa Martin-Green Leaves Door Open for Starfleet Academy and Discovery Crossover | Den of Geek Exclusive: Director Jonathan Frakes Talks “Lots Of Levity” In ‘Star Trek: Starfleet Academy' – TrekMovie.com unannounced “Star Trek: Legacy” series 2 Years Later, Star Trek Is Still Ignoring the Most Obvious Choice for Its Next TV Show – ComicBook.com Unannounced “Star Trek: United” Fan Favorite Star Trek Actor Discusses Returning for Legacy Spinoff, 20 Years After Cancelation – ComicBook.com Scott Bakula On His Possible Star Trek: United Comeback As President Archer THEATRICAL MOTION PICTURES (in order of premiere) Star Trek into Darkness (2013) Why Star Trek Fans Still Have A Bone To Pick With JJ Abrams And Into DarknessTrek movies that never were, for one reason or another, [such as Tarantino’s movie] Quentin Tarantino’s Unmade Star Trek Movie: The Original Series Episode Adaptation OTHER MEDIAStar Trek books, audio books Reigning in Hell — Wrapping Up Star Trek: Khan's First Season – Reactor REVIEW – Star Trek: Khan – Episode 9 ‘Eternity’s Face' – Trek Central NickALive!: Khan’s Impact on Starfleet and Marla McGivers | Star Trek: Khan | StarTrek.com | Star Trek Star Trek: Khan’s Creators Clarified The Project’s Relationship To The TV Shows, And I’m Excited | Cinemablend New Star Trek Series Officially Changes Canon – ComicBook.com Star Trek video games/board games Star Trek Online's S34 Unleashed arrives on Xbox and PlayStation, The Feast begins on PC | Massively Overpowered Investigate A Doomed Starship In New Trailer For ‘Star Trek: Infection' VR Game – TrekMovie.com Star Trek toys/collectibles/other merchandise LEGO Unveils New 3600-Piece STAR TREK: TNG Enterprise-D Brick Set 20 More Lego ‘Star Trek’ Sets I Want After the ‘Enterprise’-D Jonathan Frakes Makes Star Trek History With LEGO USS Enterprise-D Lego's first Star Trek set looks amazing LEGO Enterprise designer reveals how Icons team made it so Star Trek Starships Die Cast Collection Star Trek Comics/graphic novels/magazines Printwatch: Planet She-Hulk & Star Trek: Last Starship Second Prints Star Trek: The Last Starship's flight plan has been filed (and this is how long it will last) Star Trek: The Last Starship #2 Preview: Captain Sato Bets on Action Red-Hot Star Trek Writers Verify When Their Current Captain Kirk Story Will End (Exclusive) New Star T Star Trek: Voyager's Mission is Ending, And We Have The First Look (Exclusive)rek Comic Spotlights Lieutenant Uhura for Black History Month – IGN Star Trek: Captain Kirk is Officially Back To Get Revenge on The Klingons MISCELLANEOUS Paramount+ / Paramount Skydance CBS & Sony Settle Jeopardy! & Wheel of Fortune Legal Battle – TVFORMATS Roya News | “Identification failed”: Gaza moves to bury 38 unidentified dead Paramount Skydance's first full quarter post-merger set to show signs of rebound | S&P Global Comcast Taps Bankers to Explore Bid for Warner Bros. Discovery Assets Paramount Global Shifts to Hostile Takeover Strategy for Warner Bros. Discovery David Ellison’s Paramount Skydance makes its bullish pitch to Hollywood Why Star Trek Ditching The Kelvin Universe Is (Probably) For The Best Matt Stone Says ‘South Park’ Creators Can ‘Do Whatever They Want’ at Paramount; New Episode Revealed | Animation Magazine Paramount Skydance to invest over $1.5 billion in programming next year; shares jump | Reuters Paramount Skydance expects another $1B in merger savings Paramount Posts $257 Million Loss in Q3 Paramount Skydance to slash 1,600 more jobs after revenue disappoints — but issues upbeat forecast | New York Post 600 Paramount Employees Took Buyout Packages Amid Return to Office Mandate Paramount Stock Jumps 9% in First Earnings Post-Skydance Deal Paramount+ increasing prices, eliminating free trials | wfaa.com Paramount+ to raise prices in 2026 following Paramount Skydance merger | LiveNOW from FOX Paramount Skydance shares rise as Ellison’s bets get bolder Lawmakers say Paramount Skydance ‘stonewalling’ probe into Trump merger approval | Reuters Warner Bros. Discovery Sets a November 20th Deadline For Offers From Paramount, Comcast, Netflix, and Amazon to Buy the Company | Cord Cutters News Will Paramount Raise its WBD Offer to $30 Per Share? Company Denies Consortium Claims – TipRanks.com Chatter: Saudis x Comcast interested in Warner Bros. Discovery – Reel 360 News David Ellison Attends Trump’s Dinner for Saudi Prince as Paramount Denies Arab Wealth Funds Are Part of WBD Bid Saudi Arabia’s PIF Enters Warners Bid Mix? – Dark Horizons Jon Stewart Asks Whether David Ellison and Other Moguls Get Artists Simtec Systems | partners Advent Allen Entertainment | blooloop Star Trek related science news Real Life Star Trek Replicators Are Almost Here Franchise-wide/Miscellaneous Star Trek: Avoiding The Nostalgia Trap Of Rival Franchise Star Wars 5 Reasons Why Star Trek’s Kelvin Timeline Failed Star Trek’s Future Without Kirk & Spock Would Mark A New Era I Hate To Admit It, but It's Good Star Trek's Next Movie Is Moving On From the Kelvin Timeline – ComicBook.com Star Trek spinoffs the fans deserve in 2026 & beyond “No other culture had a right to interfere”: Isaac Asimov’s Brilliant Interpretation of Star Trek Is the Racism Antidote America Needs In 2025 8 Great Star Trek Villains Nobody Talks About – ComicBook.com Rick Berman And Brannon Braga Are Not Fans Of Contemporary Language In Modern Star Trek Shows – TrekMovie.com Star Trek: TOS movie villains ranked first to worst ​​5 Underrated Star Trek Alien Races That Deserved Way More Screen Time – ComicBook.com The Inside Joke That Appears In Nearly Every Star Trek Series Walmart+ Slashes Annual Price 50% With Access to Peacock or Paramount+ – Media Play News Star Trek Legends to Beam Into Rose Parade for 60th Anniversary – Pasadena Now STAR TREK Actors Set to Join 2026 Rose Bowl Parade Float – TrekCore.com Convention news/fandom These Giant LEGO ‘Star Trek’ Borg Cubes Will Assimilate You – Bell of Lost Souls Doug Drexler Talks Creating Starships & Documentary – Trek Central Actor Watch Actor William Shatner brings classic Star Trek Film to Monterey | 90.3 KAZU Why ‘Star Trek' icon William Shatner says to keep your eye on the moon – Orange County Register ‘Star Trek' actor recalls boyhood detention during WWII in camp for Japanese-Americans | Stars and Stripes When “Star Trek” legend William Shatner and America’s favorite astrophysicist Neil degrasse Tyson share the stage, sparks can fly on an astronomical level. Passings Ralph Senensky Dead: ‘Star Trek,’ ‘Waltons’ Director Was 102 Main Mission, Part 2 (with an appropriate sound effect) Star Trek: KhanEpisode 7“I Am Marla”Written by Kirsten Beyer & David MackBased on a story by Nicholas MeyerDirected by Fred Greenhalgh [Green-haulch] Warp Speed Round Table This time we ask:“What song would you play on Ivan’s boom box to introduce the Elborians to Earth culture?” End Of Show It’s about time to refill the dilithium chamber and get on out of here. Find Clinton at Comedy4Cast Find Chuck and Kreg at Technorama Podcast If you liked the show, please be sure to tell a friend about it. And subscribe, so you’ll never miss an episode. We’d love to hear from you. Follow us on BlueSky (@thetopicistrek), visit our Facebook page or call us at 816-TREKKER, that’s (816) 873-5537 Don’t put on the red shirt!

Anthony Scaramucci joins Joanna Coles and reveals why, really, Trump can't stand ‘South Park'—and how that anger connects with his deep insecurity. Scaramucci unpacks a visibly faltering Trump: exhausted, erratic, and sliding in the polls, struggling to control the swirl of unanswered claims online. He and Joanna trace the ripple effects through Washington, from anxious MAGA insiders to allies quietly rehearsing their post-Trump moves. With the mythology under strain and the movement showing cracks, is this finally the week everything starts to unravel? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Strap in for a wild ride as the conversation bounces from the competitive world of DIY disc golf putting to the dark corners of political hypocrisy. The crew dissects Charlie Kirk quotes, South Park's latest takedowns, and the never-ending Epstein saga. But the real meat of the episode is a passionate, absurd argument about the words "moist" vs. "damp" and their application to... well, everything, especially cake and underwear. It's insightful, idiotic, and everything you didn't know you needed.

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Life lessons from Neil Young, South Park makes Penn cry, Matt prepares to hit the road again with the Jokers of Magic as Penn & Teller’s 50th anniversary tour continues, more Springsteen talk, continued musings on Vegas, and lots more!

We're back for another season and we kick off with Mr. Garrison saying goodbye to his balls, so that he may show off his fancy new vagina. Meanwhile, Kyle wants to become African-American in order to make the state basketball team.We also dive into how/why Parker seems to be "running out of ideas", Cartman's use of the word "titties", whether Mr. Slave deserved better and more.LISTEN on Spotify - spoti.fi/4fzFQbj LISTEN on Apple - apple.co/4fCJmBvWATCH on YouTube - bit.ly/southparkpodcastSupport the Four Finger Discount Network for EARLY & AD-FREE access to every show we produce, as well as 100 hours of exclusive content! Join the FFD family today at patreon.com/fourfingerdiscountCHECK OUT OUR OTHER PODCASTS:Four Finger Discount (Simpsons) - fourfingerdiscount.com.auThe Movie Guide with Leonard Maltin - themovieguidepodcast.comSpeaKing Of The Hill - spreaker.com/show/speaking-of-the-hill-a-king-of-the-hill-The One About Friends - spreaker.com/show/the-one-about-friends-podcastTalking Seinfeld - spreaker.com/show/talking-seinfeldSaturday Night Dive (SNL) - spreaker.com/podcast/saturday-night-dive-an-snl-podcastThe Office Talk - spreaker.com/show/the-office-talk-podcastGoin' Down To South Park is brought to you by The Four Finger Discount Network.

Nov. 14-20: The Beatles reunite, Princess Di spills the tea, Michael Douglas is the fairytale president, Homer meets his mom, Robert Downey Jr. is the worst P.I., a very stoned Christmas Eve, Tom Hardy is twins, South Park is trapped in the closet, and a Christmas romance you won't see on the Hallmark Channel. All that and more from 30, 20, and 10 years ago.

Send us a textWhat happens when you strip the mystique from Scientology and just answer the hard questions? We open the inbox and go straight at the topics most people tiptoe around: where Shelly Miscavige is likely being held, why so few members ever reach OT 3, what really happens to body thetans, and why OT 9 and 10 never seem to materialize. No hedging, no euphemisms—just clarity from people who lived inside the system for years.We start by framing how control works at the top: pressure, punishment, and a culture that rewards obedience over truth. That lens makes sense of everything from CST properties and remote placements to the constant delays on new OT levels. If leadership could invent scriptures, why hasn't it? Because making up higher levels risks exposure if originals surface, which explains the obsessive surveillance of Pat Broeker and the endless “preservation” campaigns that raise money while keeping access scarce. We connect those dots to everyday experiences at Int Base, the few who actually reached OT 3, and why Xenu all but disappears after that—while BT cleanup becomes a life's work.We also talk about laughter as a pressure valve: South Park's “pneumonia” myth, The Simpsons' broadside, and the futility of gagging a culture built on parody. The point isn't to dunk; it's to show how public humor punctures private fear. Along the way, we share humane memories—cruise dinners with Ron Miscavige Sr., a trumpet rendition of Happy Birthday, the quiet rituals of parenting after indoctrination. Rebuilding happens in small, consistent choices: therapy, books, united decisions, and the stubborn act of asking better questions.If you're curious about Scientology, or you left and need language for what you saw, this Q&A is built to be useful. You'll hear how “religious proprietary secrets” function like trade secrets, why digital access threatened the money machine, and how secrecy keeps the illusion alive. Press play, then tell us the question you most want answered next. And if this helped, follow the show, share it with a friend, and leave a review so others can find it.Support the showBFG Store - http://blownforgood-shop.fourthwall.com/Blown For Good on Audible - https://www.amazon.com/Blown-for-Good-Marc-Headley-audiobook/dp/B07GC6ZKGQ/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=Blown For Good Website: http://blownforgood.com/PODCAST INFO:Podcast website: https://www.buzzsprout.com/2131160 Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/blown-for-good-behind-the-iron-curtain-of-scientology/id1671284503 RSS: https://feeds.buzzsprout.com/2131160.rss YOUTUBE PLAYLISTS: Spy Files Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLWtJfniWLwq4cA-e...

Join us this week as our hosts J and Z try to parse truth from fiction with the newest episode of "South Park" and the ever-degrading state of the current administration (0:00:00). The guys bring back Trailer Trash/Trailer Cash to discuss "The Super Mario Galaxy Movie" and season two of "Fallout" (0:25:26). To finsih out the episode this week Mistborn era 2 is finale brought up with the usual amount of incoherenet rambeling (1:02:49).

This week we discuss one of the craziest Christmas episodes of South Park (but not THE craziest ... looking at you Woodland Critter Christmas) ... Red Sleigh Down! Buy some Christmas 365 Merch Join our FB Group Follow us on IG Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Simone Biles talks about her implants, Michigan at Wrigley Field, Sami Sheen vapid tattoo tour, Texas cop v. Gamecocks, KISS honors Ace, Bond girl Kendall Jenner, Ohtani's dog > his wife, and our show causes car accidents. We'll do a LIVE Detroit Lions overreaction show tomorrow at 10:30am. Get your Drew Lane Show merch today! Sports: Marc went to Wrigley Field to support the cult. The Michigan Wolverines defeated Northwestern 24-22. Texas A&M had a wild comeback against the South Carolina Gamecocks. A Texas State Trooper stole the show with some roughhousing. The Alabama kicker is a hothead! Bronny James started and sucked it up. MSU lost another one, this time to Penn State. College GameDay had the worst $2M kicks possibly ever. The Eddie Murphy documentary remains watchable. Drew went on a Murphy movie binge this weekend. Music: Gene Simmons had some nice words for Ace Frehley. Paul Stanley led a moment of silence. Some lost Black Sabbath demos are going to be released. Sharon Osbourne is none too pleased. Alex Van Halen is dropping another book. AI country is taking over the charts. Wolfgang Van Halen has a new Mammoth album out. Shohei Ohtani won another MVP award and he shows his love to his dog. A THIRD deer was smoked while listening to our program. Another dude was involved in a hit and run while listening. Send your crashes to 209-66-Boner! Michelle Obama has another book out. She claims the US isn't ready for a female president. She goes on to explain why Black people can't swim. California gubernatorial candidate Katie Porter is cratering. Politics: Tucker Carlson got ahold of Thomas Matthew Crook's digital footprint. Rocket Money pulls their advertising from Carlson due to Nick Fuentes' appearance on the show. Dasha Nekrasova was dropped by her talent agency for appearing on Fuentes' show. Zohran Mamdani may get his tax raise approved in New York. Kanye West is sorry for being antisemetic. Kylie Jenner is about to make a crappy album. Kendall Jenner wants to be the next Bond girl. Britney Spears cuddled up with the Kardashians over the weekend. The Rolling Stones covered disco classic Shame, Shame, Shame by Shirley & Company. The Stones had quite the Disco run. Simone Biles got some great new boobies. Dave Portnoy heckler, Patrick McClintock, had a GoFundMe that raised $30K. It seems to be gone now. Sami Sheen gives us a tour of her crappy tattoos. She hates the vast majority of them. The Wikipedia co-founder storms off podcast. Billie Eilish vs Elon Musk. There is a war against billionaires! Amy Schumer has lost weight and so she's dumping her husband. South Park continues going hard at Donald Trump as they show him nailing JD Vance. The BBC edited a Jan 6th clip of Donald Trump and the head of the network has resigned. Nauseating troll, Jack Doherty, was arrested in Miami. Hilary Duff is going on tour. She once gave Mike Comrie a BJ after he proposed. Meghan Markle shares a preview of her Christmas decorations. We roll through this Markle classic. She recently made another cooking blunder. If you'd like to help support the show… consider subscribing to our YouTube Channel, Facebook, Instagram and Twitter (Drew Lane, Marc Fellhauer, Trudi Daniels, Jim Bentley and BranDon).

Episodio 8x04 de Cultura en Rojo y Blanco Esta semana nos visita Juan Antonio Cantelar para hablarnos de su nuevo libro, un artefacto tan feroz como divertido: ¿De qué equipo es Eric Cartman? Un ensayo que convierte a los personajes de South Park en hinchas del fútbol español y que disecciona, con sarcasmo y mala leche, el ecosistema del forofismo patrio. Filosofía, humor, narrativa, ironía… y un espejo donde todo aficionado —lo admita o no— acaba viéndose reflejado. ¿Qué pasaría si Cartman, Kyle, Stan, Kenny, Butters o Wendy vivieran en un pueblo de Castilla y discutieran en un bar sobre fútbol español? ¿Por qué Kyle sería del Athletic? ¿Por qué Cartman jamás podría ser del Atleti? ¿Y por qué Timmy no necesita el fútbol para ser libre? Bienvenidos a Villa Menor: la sátira futbolera definitiva. Cantelar nos lo cuenta todo… y nosotros nos reímos, nos picamos y pensamos. El libro ya está disponible en Amazon. ⚪ No te pierdas este episodio: fútbol, antropología, muñequitos y verdades incómodas. Perfecta combinación para Cultura en Rojo y Blanco.

Nov. 7- 13: The highest rated E.R. ever, George Costanza loves bosco, Freddie Mercury's finale, 50 Cent tries movies, South Park sparks a hate crime against red heads, the Chilean miners get a film, Bryan Cranston is blacklisted, Diane Keaton just wants a perfect Christmas, and Bob and David are back…briefly. All that and more from 30, 20, and 10 years ago.

Johnny Mac highlights Skankfest's move from Las Vegas to New Orleans, featuring over 150 comedians on four stages. The festival includes tattoo studios, boxing matches, and unique events like comedian jiujitsu and pillow fights. Skankfest, created by the Legion of Skanks Podcast in New York, showcases talents such as Shane Gillis, Doug Stanhope, Rosebud Baker, and Mark Normand.Additionally, Nikki Glaser talks about her humorous interactions with Alexa Plus, Stavros Halkias reflects on his podcast career, and South Park creators discuss their take on political culture.The show also covers Pauly Shore's ban from the Kill Tony show, SNL cast performances, and the New York Comedy Festival lineup, including Pete Holmes and Louis C.K.  Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/daily-comedy-news-with-johnny-mac--4522158/support.Contact John at John@thesharkdeck dot com Thanks to our sponsors!Raycon EarbudsUnderdog Fantasy Promo Code DCNBlue Chew Promo Code DCNTalkspace promo code Space 80For Uninterrupted Listening, use the Apple Podcast App and click the banner that says Uninterrupted Listening.  $4.99/month John's Substack about media is free.

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Winterland is just around the corner - what will Sarah wear? Jimmy Kimmel's band leader, and childhood best friend, has passed away at 59. Mike Tyson finally reveals why he doesn't wear socks in the ring. The atmospheric river might actually show up today, and we might be able to travel for Thanksgiving - at a cost. A video of a MUNI driver falling asleep at the wheel is going viral. TV tonight! ‘The Golden Bachelor' is back. ‘South Park' is enjoying massive ratings for this extreme season. ‘Freakier Friday' is now on Disney+. ‘Survivor' is on tonight, and Sarah and Vinnie are ready for the season to kick it up a notch. Matthew McConaughey and Michael Caine signed a voice deal with an AI company. ‘Toy Story 5' trailer is out, and the iPad is making its Pixar premier. Vinnie says living near the ocean might make you live longer. Should kids be compensated for keeping their room clean? Plus, salad pizza… enough said. It's time to Bridge The Gap! Can the reigning GenX champion pull out another win against the Millennials? There's nothing quite like dry swallowing a big pill. Can you name the most played music video ever played on MTV? Here's a hint: Bob's never even heard of it. Letting your kid drive is one of the craziest times in parenting - here are some rules to help! A writer for the BBC analyzed how the food you eat impacts how you smell. Is garlic good or bad? Do certain hobbies attract pretentious people? Taylor Swift is picking her bridesmaids! Sarah almost tells a story about the King of Prussia mall. Vinnie warns that these gifts are OFF LIMITS for the holidays. Here are our thoughts. A Police Chief in Massachusetts was “just trying to get girls off the street” after being caught in a sting. Plus, how old is that guy?

TV tonight! ‘The Golden Bachelor' is back. ‘South Park' is enjoying massive ratings for this extreme season. ‘Freakier Friday' is now on Disney+. ‘Survivor' is on tonight, and Sarah and Vinnie are ready for the season to kick it up a notch. Matthew McConaughey and Michael Caine signed a voice deal with an AI company. ‘Toy Story 5' trailer is out, and the iPad is making its Pixar premier. Vinnie says living near the ocean might make you live longer. Should kids be compensated for keeping their room clean? Plus, salad pizza… enough said.

On the 488th episode of Piecing It Together, we continue our FilmQuest Film Festival 2025 coverage as Jake Myers joins me to talk about Appofeniacs. We also talk about Jake's own feature Kombucha making this a double dose episode. Puzzle pieces for Appofeniacs include Tarantinto, Lynch and South Park. Puzzle pieces for Kombucha include The Substance, Inside Llewyn Davis and Office Space.As always, SPOILER ALERT for Appofeniacs and Kombucha and the movies we discuss!Check out FilmQuest at https://www.filmquestfest.comAnd also check out FilmQuest on Instagram @filmquestAppofeniacsWritten by Chris Marrs PilieroDirected by Chris Marrs PilieroStarring Aaron Holiday, Jermaine Fowler, Michael Abbot Jr, Sean Gunn, Scarlett DeMeoKombuchaWritten by Jake Myers and Geoff BakkenDirected by Jake MyersStarring Zoe Agapinan, Charin Alvarez, Rachel Benson, Jesse KendallJake Myers is a filmmaker and the director of KombuchaCheck out his website at https://www.johnjacobmyers.com/And also check out Jake on Instagram @johnjacobmyersMy latest David Rosen album MISSING PIECES: 2018-2024 is a compilation album that fills in the gaps in unreleased music made during the sessions for 2018's A Different Kind Of Dream, 2020's David Rosen, 2022's MORE CONTENT and 2025's upcoming And Other Unexplained Phenomena. Find it on Bandcamp, Apple Music, Spotify and everywhere else you can find music.You can also find more about all of my music on my website https://www.bydavidrosen.comMy latest music video is “Shaking" which you can watch at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wzm8s4nuqlAThe song at the end of the episode is "Enemy" from my album A Different Kind Of Dream.Make sure to “Like” Piecing It Together on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/PiecingPodAnd “Follow” us on Twitter @PiecingPodAnd Join the Conversation in our Facebook Group, Piecing It Together – A Movie Discussion Group.And check out https://www.piecingpod.com for more about our show!And if you want to SUPPORT THE SHOW, you can now sign up for our Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/bydavidrosenYou can also support the show by checking out our Dashery store to buy shirts and more featuring Piecing It Together logos, movie designs, and artwork for my various music projects at

He is a housing justice advocate who has been a community organizer since he was a kid – and now he is running for Los Angeles City Council. I talk with Estuardo Mazariegos, candidate for Council District 9 in the City of Los Angeles, on this episode of WNLA.Today is the second installment of our series of interviews with candidates running to succeed Curren Price on the LA City Council. The 9th Council District in Los Angeles stretches from the southern edge of Downtown Los Angeles, through South Central, all the way toward Watts. The communities of Central-Alameda, Vernon-Central, South Park, Green Meadows, and Vermont Square all call District 9 home. The district is among the most diverse and youngest in the city, with over three-quarters of residents identifying as Latino, a significant Black community, and many families with roots across Latin America and beyond. Nearly 40% of District 9 residents live below the federal poverty line, making it the city's poorest council district, and many households face challenges of housing insecurity, limited access to good jobs, and environmental burdens.With Price completing his third and final term, the seat is open for the first time since 2013. The primary election will take place on June 2, 2026, and the runoff, if needed, will be in November. This year, the field features community leaders, non-profit executives, and policy advocates all vying for votes. The candidates include Jose Ugarte, Estuardo Mazariegos, Elmer Roldan, and several others—each bringing their own vision for the future of South LA.Today's guest is Estuardo Mazariegos. He is the Los Angeles co-director of ACCE, Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment, a grassroots organization working to organize and fight for  California's traditionally underserved residents, including communities of color, low-income and working families, and the undocumented population.Estuardo is a an immigrant from Guatemala who was carried across the Rio Grande as a child by his mother. As you'll hear in the interview, he says he learned to be a community organizer as a young child and has never stopped being one. He is known for his leadership in housing justice initiatives and organizing efforts, working with ACCE and other grassroots groups to address local community issues and advocate for social changehttps://www.estuardo4la.com/Nov 5 - Elmer RoldanNov 12 - Estuardo MazariegosNov 19 - Jose UgarteWhat's Next, Los Angeles? is produced and hosted by Mike Bonin, in partnership with LA Forward.

Send us a textA space opera with DC-8s, volcanoes, and billion-soul “implants” shouldn't be the engine of a modern religion—yet that's exactly the story that sits behind Scientology's most guarded levels. We pull the curtain back on the Xenu narrative from OT III, lay out the official claims in plain English, and examine how secrecy, status, and relentless fundraising keep the bridge in motion long after the secret escaped the vault.We walk through the alleged Galactic Confederation backstory, why “body thetans” and clusters become the never-ending problem you're asked to pay to solve, and how health promises and ethics pressure can keep members from getting real medical care. You'll hear how Sea Org culture borrows from the “loyal officers” myth, why OT levels are only delivered at advanced orgs, and how moving goalposts for OT 9 and 10 mask an empty pipeline. We also track the turning point—leaks in the 80s, South Park, Boston Legal, The Kaminsky Method—when pop culture and the internet made the once-forbidden story searchable in minutes.Along the way, we share first-hand experiences helping people leave, briefing journalists on front groups like ABLE and Applied Scholastics, and speaking to students about new religious movements. Expect clear explanations, zero jargon, and a guided tour of the logic gaps—geology, physics, and those DC-8 wings in space—that reveal how a mid-century sci-fi imagination became high-priced revelation. If you've ever wondered how myth turns into machinery, or why drop-offs spike at Clear, OT III, and OT VIII, this conversation connects the dots.If this resonated, subscribe, share with a friend who's curious about Scientology, and leave a review telling us what part surprised you most. Your support helps us reach and help more people looking for answers.Support the showBFG Store - http://blownforgood-shop.fourthwall.com/Blown For Good on Audible - https://www.amazon.com/Blown-for-Good-Marc-Headley-audiobook/dp/B07GC6ZKGQ/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=Blown For Good Website: http://blownforgood.com/PODCAST INFO:Podcast website: https://www.buzzsprout.com/2131160 Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/blown-for-good-behind-the-iron-curtain-of-scientology/id1671284503 RSS: https://feeds.buzzsprout.com/2131160.rss YOUTUBE PLAYLISTS: Spy Files Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLWtJfniWLwq4cA-e...

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Join us this week as our hosts J and Z buzz about Yorgos Lanthimos' newest film "Bugonia" (0:00:00) and take cover from Kathryn Bigelow's outing with Netflix in "A House of Dynamite" (0:45:17). The guys also discuss the latest episode of "South Park" (1:17:07). 

This week we run through our favourite episodes of what's arguably been the best season of the show so far! What do YOU think were our favourites? What were YOUR favourites?We also discuss what we think were the weakest episodes from Parker and Stone.LISTEN on Spotify - spoti.fi/4fzFQbj LISTEN on Apple - apple.co/4fCJmBvWATCH on YouTube - bit.ly/southparkpodcastSupport the Four Finger Discount Network for EARLY & AD-FREE access to every show we produce, as well as 100 hours of exclusive content! Join the FFD family today at patreon.com/fourfingerdiscountCHECK OUT OUR OTHER PODCASTS:Four Finger Discount (Simpsons) - fourfingerdiscount.com.auThe Movie Guide with Leonard Maltin - themovieguidepodcast.comSpeaKing Of The Hill - spreaker.com/show/speaking-of-the-hill-a-king-of-the-hill-The One About Friends - spreaker.com/show/the-one-about-friends-podcastTalking Seinfeld - spreaker.com/show/talking-seinfeldSaturday Night Dive (SNL) - spreaker.com/podcast/saturday-night-dive-an-snl-podcastThe Office Talk - spreaker.com/show/the-office-talk-podcastGoin' Down To South Park is brought to you by The Four Finger Discount Network.

Our panellists beg: please, Santa, do not bring us a Christmas election. Red, yellow and green traffic lights are outdated because a fourth colour might be added to intersections. There's a big innovation in menstrual products and thank god, it's not AI! Peanut allergies have fallen fast, yet the PB sandwich remains a schoolyard crime. Why no one's allowed to celebrateThe Great Peanut Comeback just yet. If you're too afraid to share your opinions on social media, that's okay! Fill out this listener questionnaire instead: www.cbc.ca/BecauseSurvey

There was a big old off-cycle election yesterday in the USA...and according to the Mad King the results were due to his not being on the ballot and the shutdown is bad.  Apparently Mr. "I don't take responsibility for anything" is operating in full denial.  What else is new?I had a blast with this one!  Seriously!  Great mood!Love,-T

Kristen Schaal (Last Man on Earth, Bob's Burgers) joins us this week to share her unfiltered journey through the highs and lows of Hollywood. From crashing on couches in New York and making comedy for no money, to finding her voice on South Park and building family on Bob's Burgers, Kristen's story is one of persistence and originality. Along the way, she talks about the realities of rejection, the vulnerability of miscarriage, and why she embraces the label of being “too weird” for mainstream comedy. Thank you to our sponsors:

‘Squid Games: The Challenge' is back, and the prize is actually life changing money. Is cattiness a natural part of being a young woman? Jon Stewart has renewed for another year, once per week. Freedom of speech isn't dead yet! Charlie Sheen clarifies his relationship. Jennifer Aniston has gone public with her hypnotist boyfriend. A man gets fired after his distasteful Halloween costume. Matty reveals more troubling information from his past.

We start the show chatting about Tory's coaching trip South Park and the chaos he had traveling there and back, we relive the heartbreak of the Blue Jays loss, then a quick little carbon vs. alloy bike debate, a check in on the Grands title standings, and some Questions from the Grand Stands like: would you rather win one World Cup or podium 10 times, and be known for the fastest first or last straight? #Chatter

The Roast of Shawn Wasson recap, a judge caught peeing in public, a long kick and some short shorts, the Mormon underwear update, the Terrifier lawsuit is crazy, the South Park guys are in trouble, a mom shoots the escaped lab monkey, the SNAP benefits drama explodes and so much more!

The Roast of Shawn Wasson recap, a judge caught peeing in public, a long kick and some short shorts, the Mormon underwear update, the Terrifier lawsuit is crazy, the South Park guys are in trouble, a mom shoots the escaped lab monkey, the SNAP benefits drama explodes and so much more!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The daughters of Irsay are selling the "Jim Irsay Collection," South Park uses "6-7," Monster Mash made into a movie, and more! Are you okay with this? See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Vinnie gets a chance to talk about one of his favorite shows because Mrs. Cunningham from ‘Happy Days' is 97 years old. Who are the ultimate scream queens of the horror movie genre? Taco Tuesday with no front teeth proves difficult. Some guy claims today will be the day aliens make contact with their UFO. Tales of a Haunted House. The scariest house is one that sells above asking price for all cash. Vinnie's wondering why everything has to happen in one week. Sarah's got what's new on TV this week. South Park is dropping its Halloween episode on Friday this week. A new Dr. Seuss book is on the way. Who is the greatest horror villain of each decade? Are peanut allergies new? The science behind avoiding them is! Bad Advice is BACK! An angry cat is scaring away this listener's boyfriends. What should she do?! Email us for Bad Advice: badadvice973@gmail.com. Sarah reveals a secret about herself that shocks Bob. NOT the band! A Florida man was arrested after smashing 80 pumpkins at a Target in the middle of the night. The definitive definition of Broadway. Where did your paycheck go? Booger candy! The Bay is alive with the sound of music. Evil Dead in Concert is here for a dose of thrash metal. The induction ceremony of Rock & Roll Hall of Fame is star studded - Chappell Roan was just added! An 80-year old woman was found dead on Lizard Island after being left behind by her cruise ship. A “men diagram” is offending Vinnie, but Sarah and Bob support it. Plus, it's always crazy to learn how much people pay for memorabilia!

Vinnie's wondering why everything has to happen in one week. Sarah's got what's new on TV this week. South Park is dropping its Halloween episode on Friday this week. A new Dr. Seuss book is on the way. Who is the greatest horror villain of each decade? Are peanut allergies new? This science behind avoiding them is!

Britney Spears responds to Kevin Federline accusations, RIP Ace Frehley, Me-Me-Meghan Markle speaks to the Most Powerful Women, Brewers Karen, Mitch McConnell falls, a new Bonerline, And Jim's Picks: Top Rick Rubin songs. Brewers Karen threatens to call ICE on a LA Dodgers fan who is a war veteran. He trolled the crowd and posted the video. She's doxxed. Who is worse? Check out Murdaugh: Death In the Family on HULU. South Park is at it again. We FINALLY get to see Trump's butthole. Britney Spears & Kevin Federline drama. His book "You Thought You Knew" comes out on October 21. Britney gets destroyed by K-Fed in the new book as he claims she did cocaine while breastfeeding. Mando brings you a brand new Bonerline Ace Frehley is in rough shape. Mitch McConnell fell down AGAIN. Howard Stern had J Lo as a guest in his studio today. It might be the gayest interview ever. Kate Cassidey is nauseating and wants attention for Liam Payne's death. RIP Ace Frehley. Let's Go Brandon sweatshirts are banned in a West Michigan school. Oh my God who cares. Donna Adelson is going away for a long time. Nice mom. Meghan Markle is one of the world's most powerful women. Fortune's Most Powerful Women. Jim's Picks: Top 10 Rick Rubin Songs If you'd like to help support the show… consider subscribing to our YouTube Channel, Facebook, Instagram and Twitter (Drew Lane, Marc Fellhauer, Trudi Daniels, Jim Bentley and BranDon).