Podcasts about SPR

Today, we welcome back Adam Rozencwajg, Managing Partner at Goehring & Rozencwajg, to help us understand the global energy crisis and how we ended up in this situation. We discuss the outlook of the coming months and why we are in the beginning of a commodity super cycle, how the supply and demand side of the economy functions and what role the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) plays in a global energy crisis. We also discuss the different types of energy commodities, how convergence will affect the energy market and how to take advantage of it, the history of energy and the importance of ensuring a continuous abundance of efficient energy, how nuclear power can be a viable solution to the energy crisis and much more. ---- ---- Follow Niels on https://twitter.com/toptraderslive (Twitter), https://www.linkedin.com/in/nielskaastruplarsen (LinkedIn), https://www.youtube.com/user/toptraderslive (YouTube) or via the https://www.toptradersunplugged.com/ (TTU website). IT's TRUE ? – most CIO's read 50+ books each year – get your FREE copy of the Ultimate Guide to the Best Investment Books ever written https://www.toptradersunplugged.com/Ultimate (here). And you can get a free copy of my latest book “The Many Flavors of Trend Following” https://www.toptradersunplugged.com/flavor (here). Learn more about the Trend Barometer https://www.toptradersunplugged.com/resources/market-trends/ (here). Send your questions to info@toptradersunplugged.com And please share this episode with a like-minded friend and leave an honest Rating & Review on https://www.toptradersunplugged.com/reviewttu (iTunes) or https://open.spotify.com/show/2OnOvLbIV3AttbFLxuoaBW (Spotify) so more people can discover the podcast. Follow Cem on https://twitter.com/jam_croissant (Twitter). Follow Adam on https://twitter.com/AdamRozencwajg/ (Twitter). Episode TimeStamps: 00:00 - Intro 02:01 - Heading into the winter 10:42 - Flood the market with oil...a good idea? 14:50 - Understanding the supply side 29:30 - Venezuela - A hot spot? 33:21 - Is the SPR in trouble? 40:12 - The role of the different energy commodities 42:51 - Why convergence and how to take advantage of it 51:56 - The end of energy abundance 59:57 - Is nuclear the future? 01:05:18 - Thanks for listening  Copyright © 2022 – CMC AG – All Rights Reserved ---- PLUS: Whenever you're ready... here are 3 ways I can help you in your investment Journey: 1. eBooks that cover key topics that you need to know about In my eBooks, I put together some key discoveries and things I have learnt during the more than 3 decades I have worked in the Trend Following industry, which I hope you will find useful. https://www.toptradersunplugged.com/resources/ebooks/ (Click Here) 2. Daily Trend Barometer and Market Score One of the things I'm really proud of, is the fact that I have managed to published the Trend Barometer and Market Score each day for more than a decade...as these tools are really good at describing the environment for trend following managers as well as giving insights into the general positioning of a trend following strategy! https://www.toptradersunplugged.com/resources/market-trends/ (Click Here) 3. Other Resources that can help you And if you are hungry for more useful resources from the trend following world...check out some precious resources that I have found over the years to be really valuable. https://www.toptradersunplugged.com/resources/ (Click Here) https://www.toptradersunplugged.com/legal/privacy-policy/ (Privacy Policy) https://www.toptradersunplugged.com/disclaimer/ (Disclaimer)

27.09.2022 Sprüche 24 gelesen von Saskia, Oederan by 1189 Stimmen für 365 Tage

27.09.2022 Sprüche 23 gelesen von Samuel Isaak, Neuwied by 1189 Stimmen für 365 Tage

27.09.2022 Sprüche 22 gelesen von Michael Zironkin, Großseifen by 1189 Stimmen für 365 Tage

Språket handlar om den historiska ordboken SAOB, vars framtid nyligen var hotad. Vår språkexpert förklarar hur en ordbok kan få hjärtat att banka. Och hur är det med förkortningarna i ordlistan SAOL? Veckans språkfrågorNär uppskattas SAOB (Svenska Akademiens Ordbok) vara klar?Ordet inföding blev definierat av SAOB 1933 som i första hand en person av "färgad eller ociviliserad eller halvciviliserad ras". Hur känns den definitionen idag?För den språkintresserade allmänheten, vilken blir den enskilt viktigaste förbättringen av SAOB när den har uppdaterats?Jobbet med SAOB startade på 1800-talet. Hur gick det då till när man skulle hitta alla ord och deras definitioner?Vad avgör vilken sorts förkortningar som tas upp i Svenska Akademiens Ordlista? Varför finns till exempel bh men inte hb?Hur går det till när ord till nya upplagor av ordböcker väljs ut? Vem nominerar ord och vem beslutar om de kommer med?När kom historiens första ordbok ut?Flera av Språkets lyssnare klagar över att SAOB idag är svårläst med tättskrivna sidor och många förkortningar. Kommer SAOB bli mer läsbar framöver?Författaren Pip Williams menar att den engelska ordboken Oxford English Dictionary var jävig till förmån för mäns upplevelser när den skapades för över 100 år sen. I vilken mån kan det stämma även för åtminstone delar av SAOB?Språkvetare Susanna Karlsson, docent i nordiska språk vid Göteborgs universitet övriga medverkande: Bodil Rosqvist, biträdande huvudredaktör för Svenska Akademiens Ordbok Mats Malm, ständig sekreterare Svenska Akademien Pip Williams, författare till romanen De förlorade ordens bok Programledare Jens Möller

Spreker: Dr. G.A. van den BrinkDatum: 29 oktober 2017Locatie: Laankerk RotterdamBron: http://archive.laankerk.nl/?sermon_id=1258Over Troosten en Verdriet1. Aanwezige vrienden2. Troostende vrienden3. Troost bij GodSchriftlezing: Job 2:1-13In de bijbel is vaak sprake van troost. God is de Vader van de barmhartigheden en de God van alle vertroosting (2 Kor. 1:3). We belijden “onze enige troost” (HC 1.1.). Maar wat is troost?Drie vrienden zoeken Job op om hem te troosten. Er wordt vaak gezegd dat zij daarin mislukken. Maar doen wij het zoveel beter dan zij…? Aan de hand van Job 2:11-13 bezien we wat troosten is, en hoe wij mensen in lijden kunnen troosten. Als helpen niet gaat, blijft troosten over.Gesprekvragen:1. “Een broeder wordt in de benauwdheid geboren” (Spr. 17:17). Welke vrienden zouden jou kunnen troosten als jij in lijden bent, denk je? En welke vrienden niet?2. Waarom is het belangrijk verschil te maken tussen helpen en troosten?3. Waarin is Gods troosten anders dan ons troosten?4. Lees 2 Kor. 1:3-8. Hoe kunnen getrooste mensen anderen troosten?5. Wat is jouw troost in leven en in sterven?6. Voor de kinderen: kijk naar het filmpje van de vrouw en het zoontje van Habila. Hoe troostte hij zijn moeder?7. Voor de kinderen: ken jij andere mensen die troost nodig hebben? Hoe kun jij hen misschien troosten? ★ Support this podcast ★

26.09.2022 Sprüche 18 gelesen von Manfred Nowak, Tangermünde by 1189 Stimmen für 365 Tage

Sprød og spritny jazz fra ind- og udland. Vært Niels Christian Cederberg børster støvet af skuldrene og langer nye, håndplukkede skiver over disken. Vil du være den misundelsesværdigt vidende ven, der anbefaler ny musik til omgangskredsen? Så lyt med. www.dr.dk/p8jazz

In einer Kooperation zusammen mit Telekom durften wir einen mega spannenden Beruf vorstellen.Kelly hat uns über ihren täglichen Ablauf als Business Consultant Automotive erzählt.Ehrlich gesagt, Devin und Ich hatten keinerlei Ahnung was eine Consultant Automotive für Aufgaben hat, aber Kelly hat uns auf die Sprünge geholfen und genauestens erklärt was sie macht, wo und vor allem warum!Außerdem haben wir darüber gesprochen wie es überhaupt möglich ist diesen Job zu erlangen (Studium, Ausbildung etc.).Als Consultant übernimmt Kelly die strategische Beratung bei der Ausrichtung und Gestaltung der IT bei Kunden in der Automobilindustrie.Sie verrät an welchem coolen Projekt sie mittlerweile arbeitet und wie sie ihre Arbeitszeit zum Teil frei im Home Office gestalten kann.Alle weiteren Infos erhaltet ihr in der Episode.Solltet ihr noch weitere Fragen zum Berufsbild der Consultant Automotive haben, kontaktiert uns gern bei Instagram @was.macht.Viel Spaß bei der neuesten Episode und ein riesiges Dankeschön an die Telekom für diese tolle Möglichkeit!

Die Bibellese als Hörbuch für den 26.09.2022. Der Beitrag 26.09.2022 – Jesaja 48,12-50,11 // Epheser 4,17-32 // Psalm 69,1-18 // Sprüche 24,5-6 erschien zuerst auf ERwartet.

26.09.2022 Sprüche 21 gelesen von Paulina Schnick, Gießen by 1189 Stimmen für 365 Tage

26.09.2022 Sprüche 20 gelesen von Ramona Eva Möbius, Dessau by 1189 Stimmen für 365 Tage

26.09.2022 Sprüche 19 gelesen von Judica Lang, Gießen by 1189 Stimmen für 365 Tage

Die Bibellese als Hörbuch für den 25.09.2022. Der Beitrag 25.09.2022 – Jesaja 45,14-48,11 // Epheser 4,1-16 // Psalm 68,21-36 // Sprüche 24,3-4 erschien zuerst auf ERwartet.

25.09.2022 Sprüche 17 gelesen von Wolfgang Lahn, Anrath by 1189 Stimmen für 365 Tage

25.09.2022 Sprüche 16 gelesen von Veronika Fast, Frankfurt by 1189 Stimmen für 365 Tage

25.09.2022 Sprüche 15 gelesen von Maja Förster, Schwerin by 1189 Stimmen für 365 Tage

In der aktuellen Folge starten wir ziemlich gut gelaunt & das hört man auch! Viele Lacher und blöde Sprüche sind vorprogrammiert. Nach dem üblichen Wochenrückblick starten wir in das Thema der Folge: „Erased - Die Stadt in der es mich nicht gibt!“ Eine Geschichte über seinen Serienmörder, Misshandlung und Zeitsprünge! Klingt auf den ersten Blick unspektakulär, jedoch gibt es einige erwähnenswerte Aspekte! Wie uns das Thriller/Drama gefallen und warum der Anime unsere Herzen erwärmt hat hört ihr in in dieser Episode!

24.09.2022 Sprüche 14 gelesen von Carola Machalet, Halle by 1189 Stimmen für 365 Tage

24.09.2022 Sprüche 13 gelesen von Gaby Haulick, Blaubeuren by 1189 Stimmen für 365 Tage

24.09.2022 Sprüche 12 gelesen von Gabriel Wagner, Hohenhameln by 1189 Stimmen für 365 Tage

Die Bibellese als Hörbuch für den 24.09.2022. Der Beitrag 24.09.2022 – Jesaja 43,14-45,13 // Epheser 3 // Psalm 68,1-20 // Sprüche 24,1-2 erschien zuerst auf ERwartet.

Frake berättar om de mystiska besökarna från kloakerna och duon kläcker en plan, en plan som övergår både Frake och Thorns omedelbara tillgångar. Lyckligtvis har Grine alltid en kontakt eller två i bakfickan. Som vanligt kräver tjänster i Duskwall gentjänster, speciellt när nykomlingar kommer och ber om etablerade tjuvars förtroende. Men kanske ger detta tillfälle till två av Sprättarnas mer oprövade förmågor att bevisa sig och vad de är kapabla till.

23.09.2022 Sprüche 11 gelesen von Hanna Niederland by 1189 Stimmen für 365 Tage

23.09.2022 Sprüche 10 gelesen von Katrin Kugler, Althütte by 1189 Stimmen für 365 Tage

23.09.2022 Sprüche 9 gelesen von Monika Zielonka, Bad Frankenhausen by 1189 Stimmen für 365 Tage

Enthält Szenen aus Schniekattack-Folge 34. Sprüche wie Revivify fühlen sich manchmal wie Cheaten an. Natürlich sichert es Charakterentwicklung ab, aber da Charaktertode auch Geschichten vorantreiben können, stellen wir uns die Fragen, ob Wiederbelebungen eigentlich so cool sind – gerade auch, wenn sich Spielende mit zu starken Herausforderungen anlegen. Schniekattack-Shorts sind zusammengeschnittene Höhepunkte unserer Folgen. Weitere Ausschnitte und unsere ganzen Folgen könnt ihr euch auf allen gängigen Podcastplattformen (Spotify, Anchor, Apple Podcasts, Pocket Casts, Castbox und Google Podcasts) und auch auf WordPress anhören. #criticalrole #criticalrolecampaign3 #pennpaper #tabletoprpg #dnd #podcast #dungeonsanddragons #dnd5e #german #deutsch #schniekattack #Revivify #Charaktertod #Laudna

Thu, 22 Sep 2022 03:00:00 +0000 https://ehi-retail-insights.podigee.io/42-neue-episode 3f0a2dd40af8a96b3430b2a57c27cc13 In der heutigen Folge, liebe Hörerinnen und Hörer, versüße ich Ihnen die Zeit mit einem süßen Thema: Schokolade. In den Supermärkten meiner Wahl, und so wird es auch bei Ihnen sein, liegen schon die Weihnachts-typischen Leckereien, wie Lebkuchen, Dominosteine, Weihnachtsmänner und Marzipankartoffeln. Ja, da kommen wir doch alle schon in Weihnachtsstimmung. Und passend zu dieser hochkalorischen Zeit spreche heute mit Ute Dondorf, Head of Retail B2B Direct Sales & B2C, von Lindt. Wie immer, wenn ich mich eingehend mit dem Unternehmen beschäftige, das zu mir in den Podcast kommt, bin ich begeistert von der ungeahnten Produktvielfalt und entwickle oftmals übrigens auch neue Konsumwünsche. Lindt, das ist nicht nur der Goldhase, den seit 70 Jahren gefühlt alle zu Ostern haben, nein viele kennen vermutlich auch die Kugeln, Tafeln und Pralinen. Von Vegan mit Haferdrink über Coconut Sticks bis zu Sensation Fruit Himbeere & Cranberry und Limone mit einem leichten Hauch von Ingwer – Lindt hat sowohl im B2C als auch B2B Geschäft auf dem Gebiet rund um Schokolade einiges zu bieten. Rund um Schokolade, dazu gehören beispielsweise auch personalisierte Verpackungen und Goldhasen-Fan-Shirts. Ich bin 87 geboren und wenn ich Lindt höre, kann ich den Schriftzug vor meinem inneren Auge visualisieren. Warum ist diese Marke so einprägsam? Wie übersetzt man das Lindt-Gefühl in die ja so diversen Kanäle – zum Beispiel Store Instagram? Und welche Bedeutung haben der Onlineshop und das B2B-Geschäft für den Schweizer Schokoladenhersteller? Über diese und weitere Fragen spreche ich heute mit der Retail-Marketing- und Store-Verantwortlichen Ute Dondorf. Bevor wir in das Gespräch starten, hier noch ein paar Zahlen und Fakten zur Einordnung: Die Chocoladefabriken Lindt & Sprüngli AG ist ein international tätiger Schweizer Schokoladenhersteller mit Sitz in Kilchberg am Zürichsee, Gründung 1845, Umsatz 4,62 Milliarden Schweizer Franken (etwa 4,8 Milliarden EUR), etabliert in 120 Ländern, insgesamt 11 Produktionsstandorte und über 14.000 Mitarbeitende. Wir bedanken uns bei unserem Supporter des Monats: nets / Concardis. Concardis ist ein führender Anbieter digitaler Bezahllösungen in der DACH-Region. Als Teil des europäischen PayTech Nets / Nexi Group treibt das Unternehmen den Übergang zu einem bargeldlosen Europa voran und hilft Händlern Bezahl- und Geschäftsprozesse zu digitalisieren. Moderation: Caroline Martens Tritt gerne direkt mit mir in Kontakt: via Mail martens@ehi.org via LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/caroline-martens-61b75118a/ Technische Produktion: Philipp Lusensky Alle Folgen und mehr Infos zum EHI LAB: www.ehi-lab.org/podcast full no Caroline Martens

Die Bibellese als Hörbuch für den 23.09.2022. Der Beitrag 23.09.2022 – Jesaja 41,21-43,13 // Epheser 2 // Psalm 67 // Sprüche 23,29-35 erschien zuerst auf ERwartet.

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Správa železnic upraví okolí teprve rok otevřeného podchodu u nádraží v pražských Vršovicích. Za poslední měsíc ho při prudkých deštích třikrát vytopila voda. Pokaždé museli na místo vyjíždět hasiči a vodu odčerpávat.

Uniper-kauppa saamassa sinetin? Puhelimessa Vaasan yliopiston rahoituksen professori Timo Rothovius. Kotimaan politiikassa kuohuttavat ensi vuoden budjetti, puoluekuri, hoitajalakko ja Uniperin loppulasku. Vieraina kansanedustajat, eduskuntaryhmän varapuheenjohtajat Pia Lohikoski (vas), Jani Mäkelä (ps) ja Jouni Ovaska (kesk).  Ukrainasta raportoi Antti Kuronen. Humaanitaarinen tilanne Ukrainan takaisin vallatuilla alueilla. Vieraina kansainvälisen avustustoiminnan johtaja Tiina Saarikoski, SPR sekä humanitaarisen avun ja politiikan yksikön päällikkö Lauratuulia Lehtinen, ulkoministeriö. Presidentti Sauli Niinistö puhui YK:n yleiskokouksessa. New Yorkista raportoi kirjeenvaihtaja Iida Tikka.  Niinistön YK-puheen merkitys ja sisältö, puhelimessa eduskuntatutkimuksen keskuksen johtaja Markku Jokisipilä. Juontaja Mira Stenström, toimittajat Marja Ala-Kokko ja Mikko Haapanen. Tuottaja Hanna Juuti. 

Private Oil Drillers Are Hitting Their Limitshttps://www.wsj.com/articles/private-drillers-are-hitting-their-limits-11663579982- "they tapped many of their best drilling spots, and will have to ease their rapid pace of drilling as their inventory shrinks"- US oil production could decrease by "hundreds of thousands of barrels per day" - that's not very specific. Is going from 11.8 million bpd to 11.7 million bpd- Private producers hold around one-fifth of the Permian's most valuable acreage- OPEC toys with the market when they don't hit their quotaEPA reverses course, rejects permit for massive oil exporting project offshore from Corpus Christihttps://www.texastribune.org/2022/09/02/texas-oil-epa-export-terminal-corpus-christi/amp/- Supposed to rival LOOP in size- Permit to emit more VOCs than allowable was given by Trump admin but revoked by Biden admin- Mixed message sending is the biggest problemIEA Lowers 2022 Oil Demand Forecast Amid China Lockdowns, Economic Growth Fearshttps://finance.yahoo.com/news/iea-lowers-2022-oil-demand-050501715.htmlOil Traders Should Consider Global Demand Forecasts From IEA And OPEChttps://www.investing.com/analysis/oil-traders-should-consider-global-demand-forecasts-from-iea-and-opec-200629867- IEA forecast is based on Chinese demand falling and then increasing- Is this realistic?- Real estate investors can't get their money out of China, China wants to keep Chinese money in China- Xi to be elected President for life- Will China attack Taiwan after this? No real indication that China is going to attack Taiwan. Is this "American propaganda?" (Noam Chomsky's argument)- If China doesn't attack Taiwan what does that mean for oil demand?API Monthly Statistical Report and Quarterly Outlook- Rig activity in US is still down more than 1/5 - combo of energy policy, supply issues, labor issues- Private equity companies are leading oil production this year- Without completion crew we are seeing DUCs accrue in various regions- Are we running low on acreage? NOW there are plenty of sweet spot good rocks to drill. Problem is labor and supply chain constraints. Fiscal constraints are mitigated. Capital access is an issue still.- Lack of support for leasing on federal lands, steel tariffs cause problems, no real backing of oil and gas production from administration.- We are sitting with the lowest SPR since 1985 but consumption is 3 or 4 times higher than in 1985. - Problems getting high voltage lines in communities to build charging stations is a huge challenge so charging stations are putting in diesel generators in California.- Sheer enormity of oil and gas consumption is being ignored. Can't put all the resources into something that is only 10% of global energy (renewables). Neglecting what shoulders the bulk of global energy systems is ... going to have consequences.- Only reason we have oil prices that are lower is because we are papering over the shortage in supply by releasing SPR. - Dichotomy between news about "fears of recession" and the economic indicators. - All in holistic view of oil inventories - they are down. US has basically pushed intelf into a recession with the interest rate increases. Europe is now following- China has potentially got large economic growth.- Dollar is at all time high, making imports for American consumers less expensive. US exports are less price competitive abroad. In the past this creates a wider trade deficit. Erodes investment. Petrochemical margins have now turned negative. Not worth it to build another ethane cracker on the gulf coast, for example. Not just about the sheer productively of the rocks. Its about the entire chain. Global economy is close to 3% growth, which means need 1.5 million bpd more oil each year.- Huge uncertainty now, especially with Russia sanctions coming online soon.- Ultimately supply and demand will determine prices, not the speculative momentum.Rate increases and pricing in recession is causing the opposite to happen with the speculators.- The fact that the economy is expected to actually be "historically strong"- Savings rate is not at recessionary levels and delinquencies in American households is not historically high, only edged up a little. Rebound in consumer sentiment.- IEA, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and OPEC have all said that they don't see investment patterns enough to meet oil demand. EIA forecast is 101 million bpd of global oil demand in 2023. Not enough investment to meet this.- Threat to US and global energy security

Germany steals a starved refinery, Biden administration plays SPR catchup, and Iran eyeing a big old piece of the black market pie.

„Hřbitov je veřejný prostor a zároveň i areál. Když se mne někdo ptá, jak bych ho jinak popsal, rád odpovídám, že je to park s přidanou hodnotou, a to i když se mnou možná spousta lidí nebude souhlasit. Hřbitovy od začátku své aktivní funkce i svého konce přejímají další role. I u nás už máme takové, které neplní svou původní funkci, ale jsou to parky nebo lapidária pod širým nebem,“ říká hlavní architekt Správy pražských hřbitovů Filip Ditrich.

Språket bjuder in till nordiskt mästerskap i dialekter. Bland annat undrar vi i vilket nordiskt land man kan hitta de flesta och mest särpräglade dialekterna. Vi tar även upp en riktig skitfråga. Veckans språkfrågorVilken kan sägas vara den nordiska dialektfrågan nummer 1 just nu?Hur kan det komma sig att grannländerna Sverige och Norge har så diametralt olika syn på dialekter, och vad gör det för folksjälen?En lyssnare pekar på att man i Norge kan höra många olika dialekter på tv/radio, vilket fallet inte är på samma sätt i Sverige. Samtidigt finns i Sverige särpräglade dialekter som bondska. Är det Norge eller Sverige som har flest speciella dialekter?I vilket av de nordiska länderna finns de flesta och mest särpräglade dialekterna?Hur mycket finns av dialekter inom det finska språket?En lyssnare från Värnamo-trakten noterade att hennes mormor i sin dialekt använde ord som finns i danska och norska. Är detta ett personligt drag eller finns det småländska dialekter som har plockat en hel del från våra grannspråk?Vad är skillnaden mellan en dialekt och ett språk?I vården i Umeå kan anställda hjälpa äldre människor "på klo", alltså toaletten. Dessutom finns det dialektala uttrycket "gubba", vilket betyder att bajsa. Varifrån kommer detta?Älvdalska klassas i Sverige som en dialekt, men en expertgrupp inom Europarådet sade häromåret att älvdalskan bör klassas som ett språk. Finns några tecken på faktisk förändring när det gäller älvdalskans officiella status i Sverige?Språkvetare Henrik Rosenkvist, professor i nordiska språk vid Göteborgs universitet. Programledare Jens Möller.

Mark Pellin from Headline USA discusses President Joe Biden's raid on the Strategic Petroleum Reserve. Its the largest drawdown of America's oil reserve in history and is expected to drain the resources to a 40-year low just ahead of the midterm elections.  Biden's SPR raids are slated to end next month and industry experts have warned it will produce a savage spike in gas prices that will hit after the Nov. 8 election, where control of both the House and Senate is at stake, with prices likely skyrocketing to above $5 per gallon by the end of the year. With criticism growing about the depletion of the SPR, and with news gaining increased exposure that the raids will end next month, a group of House Democrats desperate to forestall any potential bad news before the midterms, is demanding that the oil thieving continue until the end of the year. House Democrats “urged Biden on Friday to immediately scrap his current plan to halt releases from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve next month,” CNN reported. Meanwhile, the President sat down for a lengthy interview with CBS' 60 Minutes yesterday. Biden told Scott Pelley that he's growing the economy - despite two consecutive quarters of economic contraction. Biden also said inflation is leveling off: Scott Pelley: Mr. President, as you know, last Tuesday the annual inflation rate came in at 8.3%. The stock market nosedived. People are shocked by their grocery bills. What can you do better and faster? President Joe Biden: Well, first of all, let's put this in perspective. Inflation rate month to month was just-- just an inch, hardly at all,  Scott Pelley: You're not arguing that 8.3% is good news. President Joe Biden: No, I'm not saying it is good news. But it was 8.2% or-- 8.2% before. I mean, it's not-- you're ac-- we act-- make it sound like all of a sudden, "My god, it went to 8.2%." It's been-- Scott Pelley: It's the highest inflation rate, Mr. President, in 40 years. President Joe Biden: I got that. But guess what we are. We're in a position where, for the last several months, it hasn't spiked. It has just barely-- it's been basically even. And in the meantime, we created all these jobs and-- and prices-- have-- have gone up, but they've come down for energy. The fact is that we've created 10 million new jobs. We're in-- since we came to office. We're in a situation where the-- the unemployment rate is about 3.7%. one of the lowest in history. We're in a situation where manufacturing is coming back to the United States in a big way. And look down the road, we have mas-- massive investments being made in computer chips and-- and employment. So, I-- look, this is a process. This is a process.          Get exclusive content here!: https://thepetekalinershow.com/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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On this episode of #SFLive, we are speaking with Rory Johnston, Founder of Commodity Context about How Biden is secretly financing big oil, strategic oil reserve, OPEC+, Permian Basin, and more. Guest: Rory Johnston, Founder Company: CommodityContext.com #oil #oilprice Tags: Oil, Oil price, oil stocks, oil exploration, oil and gas, permian basin, permian, joe biden, biden, rory johnston, commodity context, sf live, soar financial, kai Hoffmann, oil trade, oil trading, oil price forecast, oil price analysis, oil market, strategic oil reserves, SPR, global oil market, opec+, opec, russia MAKE SURE TO SUBSCRIBE TO OUR CHANNEL & HIT THE ALERT BUTTON Also, follow us on http://www.twitter.com/soarfinancial - make sure to follow us & click on the bell icon! ►► Follow Us! ◄◄ Twitter:http://twitter.com/soarfinancial Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/soarfinancial/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/soarfinancial/ Website: http://www.soarfinancial.com/ SF Live is a new format by Soar Financial Partners. The goal is to give short company updates and more importantly get investors engaged directly with the companies. Intro Music: "Summer" by Bensound.com **Disclaimer:** Unless specifically disclosed, all information available on Soar Financial and its affiliates or partners should be considered as non-commercial in nature. None of the content produced by Soar Financial should be considered an endorsement, offer or recommendation to buy or sell securities. Soar Financial is not registered with any financial or securities regulatory authority in Canada, the US, Europe, or the UK, and does not provide, nor claim to provide, investment advice or recommendations to any consumer of the content that Soar Financial produces and publicizes. Always do your own due diligence and/or consult a qualified legal, tax, or investment professional if personal advice is deemed necessary. Soar Financial and its related companies (including its directors, employees, and representatives) or a connected person may hold equity positions in securities detailed in communications. When this occurs a disclosure will be made. Disclosures on social media will be made using the hashtag #coi (short for conflict of interest). Soar Financial, its affiliates, and their respective directors, officers, employees, or agents expressly disclaim any liability for losses or damages, whether direct, indirect, special, or consequential, or other consequences, howsoever caused, arising out of any use or reproduction of this site or any decision made or action taken in reliance upon the produced content of Soar Financial, whether authorized or not. By accessing Soar Financial's content, each consumer of Soar Financial content releases Soar Financial, its affiliates, and their respective officers, directors, agents, and employees from all claims and proceedings for such losses, damages, or consequences.

Im Juni wurde dem 93-jährigen bairisch literarischen Urgestein Josef Fendl aus Neutraubling die Feder aus der Hand genommen. Der verstorbene Bayerwäldler arbeitete sich aus kleinsten Verhältnissen zum humanistisch gebildeten Realschullehrer hoch, seine Steckenpferde waren die Schriftstellerei, die Mundartdichtung und die Heimatgeschichte. Keinesfalls war Fendl ein bayerischer Sprüchemacher, auch wenn er dies von Zeit zu Zeit augenzwinkernd vorgab.

Bremen – Die Werder-Show eingeDEICHt ist mit Folge 13 online! Nach der bitteren 0:1-Pleite gegen den FC Augsburg und vor dem Bundesliga-Spiel bei Bayer 04 Leverkusen: Wie der SV Werder Bremen den kleinen Dämpfer jetzt wegstecken kann, der Tor-Knoten bei Marvin Ducksch endlich platzt und vieles mehr - eingeDEICHt (bei YouTube und als Podcast) geht auch in Episode 13 in die nicht immer ganz ernstgemeinte Analyse. Mit dabei: Freiburg-Torjäger Nils Petersen. In der Werder-Podcast-Säge der DeichStube (auch als YouTube-Show online) quatscht Host Timo Strömer mit Gästen wie immer über Werder Bremen – oder auch hart dran vorbei. In der Werder-Show eingeDEICHt Folge 13 bespricht Strömer mit DeichStube-Chefredakteur Björn Knips zunächst die aktuelle Werder-Lage, ehe Nils Petersen vom SC Freiburg zugeschaltet ist. Wie geht ein Stürmer mit einer Torflaute um? Petersen gibt interssante Einblicke in das Innenleben eines Profi-Fußballers und drückt die Daumen, dass bei Werders Marvin Ducksch schon bald der Ketchup-Flaschen-Effekt einsetzt. In der Werder-Show eingeDEICHt, gesendet aus dem DeichStube-Office, erwartet Euch wie immer eine Show pickepackevoll mit den Themen, die die Fans von Werder Bremen bewegen: Gerät die Mannschaft von Trainer Ole Werner nun womöglich in eine Negativ-Spirale? Sollte Michael Zetterer die neue Nummer eins vor Jiri Pavlenka sein? Und wird sich Werder wieder um den beim VfL Wolfsburg aussortierten Max Kruse bemühen? Selbstverständlich kommt auch die eingeDEICHt-Community in „User fragen Loser” zu Wort. Musikalische Unterstützung in Vorfreude auf das Abschiedsspiel von Claudio Pizarro gibt es derweil von der Band WeserButjer - der neue Song „Piza” geht aber mal so richtig gut ins Ohr. Und sonst? Herrengedecke und allerlei Blödsinn: Drip or Drop?! - ein büschn was mit Fäschn, schlechte Wortwitze, dumme Sprüche, kaum Werder-Expertise. Cheers und viel Spaß mit eingeDEICHt – Eurem Lieblings-Podcast/Vodcast rund um den SV Werder Bremen.

14.09.2022 19:30: Norbert Rose - Mit dem Strom schwimmen oder im Aufwind fliegen? (Spr. 28, 1-28) - Bibelstunde

Live from the no panic zone—I'm Steve Gruber—I am America's Voice— I am a radical MAGA American extremist— AND I have heard enough! The radical Green New Dealers and those that think your gender is determined by the pants you wear or the color of your hair—are done here—we will prevail!   Here are three big things you need to know right now— ONE— A mother in Silicon valley—was beheaded this past week in front of her two daughters—and we now know her killer was an illegal alien— TWO— Joe Bidens DOJ—is working to make plea deals with at least 5 of the 9/11 terrorists—that were responsible for killing nearly 3,000 people that day— THREE— In an outrageous and inflammatory victory lap the 3 Stooges of the Socialist Party—tried to take a victory lap on the Inflation reduction act—the clown show came on the same day—inflation for August was shown to be up—the annual inflation rate was pegged at 8.3% and the stock markets got creamed across the board—the whole spectacle was frankly an embarrassment—   Bragging about how great you're doing—and boasting about how you're saving America—when 60% are living paycheck to paycheck—the number of people needing food stamps is rising and food banks are struggling worse than at any time in decades—including the heart of the Covid pandemic in 2020 and 21—it really was quite breath taking—   Inflation— to be blunt, is on fire still—and the latest numbers show that except for lower prices on gasoline and diesel—everything else has continued to climb— In fact the temporary drop in gas prices only masked what millions of Americans know—the price of everything is going through the roof—and the inflation rate is stuck at 8.3% year over year—   And the dirty little secret about gas prices—is they were artificially lowered because President Joe Biden has recklessly dumped hundreds of millions of barrels of oil from America's Strategic Petroleum Reserve into the market—something that is absolutely unprecedented and an abuse of power in an effort to stay in power— AND it cannot last—we have pushed our SPR to its lowest level in decades too—   The strategic petroleum reserve is supposed to be in case of national emergency—not to help save a political party from certain loss in an upcoming election—   The biggest shock to consumers however continues to be the price groceries, and housing—   BUT here is something else— something that is very suspect—and being pushed by the left—that doesn't seem to be true at all—   I keep hearing how the price of gas continues to go down as a national average—  BUT here in Michigan the price of gas seems to be going back up—and I am hearing the same from all over the country like Wisconsin, North Carolina, Pennsylvania—and elsewhere—   So they keep telling us—how good things are—BUT I can tell you—average Americans know better—the real cost of everything is going up—and the cost of gas is STILL UP anywhere from $1.50 to $2.00 a gallon than when Joe Biden took office—that is not success—that is a disaster! Diesel Fuel is even higher—   In light of all of this Joe Biden flanked by Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi—tried to take a victory lap for the Inflation Reduction Act—which has done nothing to help—and people know it—   Biden tried to claim his American Rescue Plan, The Inflation Reduction Act, The Chips and Science Act and forgiving up to a Trillion dollars in student loan debt will somehow keep inflation under control—and help average Americans—BUT he cannot explain why—   And investors know better too—after the days dismal numbers—   On Wall Street there was bloodbath— the markets were clearly rejecting the inflation numbers and the Trillions of dollars in reckless spending—the Dow fell more than 4 percent—dropping nearly 1300 points— the S and P 500 and Nasdaq were also pummeled—   And that might be the good economic news of the week—because as I have been warning you, there is a looming strike of 115,000 railroad workers across 13 unions that could bring freight trains to a halt—   The devastation will come fast—even a short delay could mean further disruptions to the supply chain—which would spike inflation on all fronts even more—   A rail strike is a worst case scenario for the Biden Administration in a critical mid-term election year— Financial experts say the pain will be swift and severe—so I warn you again—that this pending walkout—after 3 years of negotiations—and the Unions balking at a plan put together by a Presidential Emergency Board offering a 22% pay increase over 5 years and retroactive to 2020—leaves very little hope for optimism—   The only prayer for the Democrats—is that Union bosses can somehow hold off the strike until after the November elections—otherwise—it could trigger massive supply chain issues—another huge spike in unemployment and a disaster for Americans everywhere—   Lets start with the insanity of the Democrats and the economy—  

Ukrajinská protiofenzíva pokračuje. Obrancom sa od začiatku septembra podarilo oslobodiť 6000 kilometrov územia, ktoré doteraz okupovali ruské jednotky. Po úspechu v Charkovskej oblasti, kde ukrajinskí vojaci zaskočili nepripravených okupantov, sa teraz obrancovia sústreďujú aj na južný front a okolie Chersonu. V Kremli sa zatiaľ stupňuje panika. Hostia propagandistických televíznych relácií, ktorí sa doteraz jednotne vyhrážali Západu, majú problém publiku vysvetliť množiace sa ruské neúspechy. Silnejú dokonca hlasy, ktoré volajú po rezignácii Vladimira Putina. Vypočujte si Ukrajinský spravodaj, súhrn toho najpodstatnejšieho, čo sa za uplynulý týždeň udialo vo vojne na Ukrajine. Správy pripravila Nina Sobotovičová, nahrala ich Ľubica Melcerová. – Ak máte pre nás spätnú väzbu, odkaz alebo nápad, napíšte nám na dobrerano@sme.sk – Všetky podcasty denníka SME nájdete na sme.sk/podcasty – Podporte vznik podcastu Dobré ráno a kúpte si digitálne predplatné SME.sk na sme.sk/podcast – Odoberajte aj denný newsletter SME.sk s najdôležitejšími správami na sme.sk/brifing – Ďakujeme, že počúvate podcast Dobré ráno.

Dagens Nyheters chef vill att läsare fortsatt ska höra av sig och "reagera på slappa formuleringar eller språkliga fel" i tidningen. Språket undersöker tidningsspråket i en tid efter korrekturläsarna. Veckans språkfrågorVarför är det så många journalister som inte verkar känna till att adjektiv slutar på -e när det beskriver någon av manligt kön och -a när det är någon av kvinnligt kön?Hur ofta hör Dagens Nyheters läsare av sig med synpunkter på tidningens språk?Hur många av tidningens anställda arbetar huvudsakligen med rent språkliga frågor?Vilken typ av forskning sker i Sverige om utvecklingen av mediernas språk, till exempel efter att korrekturläsarna försvann från tidningarna?Vad är bakgrunden till ordet sykofant, som tycks ha blivit vanligare i medierna efter Rysslands invasion av Ukraina?Vad är ursprunget till uttrycket "i ju med detta" som i viss tidningstext har använts i stället för "i och med detta"?Språkvetare Susanna Karlsson, docent i nordiska språk vid Göteborgs universitet. Gäst Peter Wolodarski, chefredaktör på Dagens Nyheter. Programledare Jens Möller.

Zdobywanie klientów cię męczy? Nie lubisz tego robić? Nie musisz zatrudniać handlowca, żeby się od tego uwolnić. Możesz zrezygnować z przyjmowania nowych zleceń, jeśli zdecydujesz się na jeden ważny krok. Nie, nie jest to zamknięcie firmy. A co takiego? Posłuchaj podcastu! Gość: Tomasz Dziuda. Pełny opis odcinka MWF 410: https://l.malawielkafirma.pl/p-410 W tym odcinku: 2:02 J. Hickel „Mniej znaczy lepiej” (recenzja)4:37 Dlaczego Tomasz zdecydował się na współpracę tylko z dotychczasowymi klientami?15:17 Jak zaplanować proces przejścia od współpracy z różnymi klientami do współpracy długoterminowej z kilkoma podmiotami?27:55 Jak dojść do stanu, w którym można sobie pozwolić na rezygnację ze współpracy z nowymi klientami? Posłuchaj też: 206: Zostań wymiataczem w sprzedaży | Jakub Cyran https://l.malawielkafirma.pl/p-206 263: Jak zarabiać miliony bez zatrudniania pracowników | Michał Szafrański https://l.malawielkafirma.pl/p-263 183: Sprzedawanie cię przeraża? Spróbuj tego! https://l.malawielkafirma.pl/p-183 Bądźmy w kontakcie: Instagram: https://l.malawielkafirma.pl/p-instagram Facebook: https://l.malawielkafirma.pl/p-facebook YouTube: https://l.malawielkafirma.pl/p-youtube Chcesz mieć lepszych klientów? Sprawdź mój newsletter: https://l.soloprzedsiebiorca.pl/p-410

Just when you thought the fine individuals at SPR industries couldn't make a conversation about the games industry sound even more casual than usual, they strike back with an episode so off-the-cuff that even they aren't quite sure where it's going. This week, Zak and Aaron sit down to discuss the various nuances of the "games as a service model," as well as other oddities like Netflix canceling the "Resident Evil" show, the PS5 price hike, Aaron's enduring hatred of "Rogue One," and the very idea of hate. If that sounds like a lot to cover in a scant 66 minutes, you're right. But it's also a lot of fun.Please, enjoy.Listen to Beach Girl on SpotifyCheck out edouggieart on EtsyCheck out even more edouggieart on Instagram

INTRODUCTION: I hold a Bachelor of Arts in Biblical Exposition, with an interdisciplinary in Literature, from Moody Bible Institute. I was one of two recipients of the MBI Homiletical Jury Award for outstanding preaching in 2016. I have experience as a youth pastor, pastoral intern, academic journal editor, and guest speaker.  I used to be a part of the largest cult in the United States. In 2019, I published my first book as a first step in addressing the subtle issues of this complex system. In 2021, I continued my work with this podcast!  INCLUDED IN THIS EPISODE (But not limited to):  ·      The Cult That Is Christianity ·      Control – Containment - Conversion·      How Sermons Are Put Together·      Toxic Positivity ·      Churches' Role In Divorce·      Religious/Church Trauma·      How The Church Likes To Be Like The World·      Different Rules For Leaders Vs. Followers In Church·      Why We Have Trust Issues With The Church·      Where Did All These Rules Come From?·      An Interesting Explanation Of Narcissism ·      Religious Discrimination  CONNECT WITH JOHN: Website, Social Media & Books: https://linktr.ee/thecultofchristianity CONNECT WITH DE'VANNON: Website: https://www.SexDrugsAndJesus.comWebsite: https://www.DownUnderApparel.comYouTube: https://bit.ly/3daTqCMFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/SexDrugsAndJesus/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sexdrugsandjesuspodcast/Twitter: https://twitter.com/TabooTopixLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/devannonPinterest: https://www.pinterest.es/SexDrugsAndJesus/_saved/Email: DeVannon@SexDrugsAndJesus.com  DE'VANNON'S RECOMMENDATIONS: ·      Pray Away Documentary (NETFLIX)o  https://www.netflix.com/title/81040370o  TRAILER: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tk_CqGVfxEs ·      OverviewBible (Jeffrey Kranz)o  https://overviewbible.como  https://www.youtube.com/c/OverviewBible ·      Hillsong: A Megachurch Exposed (Documentary)o  https://press.discoveryplus.com/lifestyle/discovery-announces-key-participants-featured-in-upcoming-expose-of-the-hillsong-church-controversy-hillsong-a-megachurch-exposed/ ·      Leaving Hillsong Podcast With Tanya Levino  https://leavinghillsong.podbean.com  ·      Upwork: https://www.upwork.com·      FreeUp: https://freeup.net VETERAN'S SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS ·      Disabled American Veterans (DAV): https://www.dav.org·      American Legion: https://www.legion.org ·      What The World Needs Now (Dionne Warwick): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FfHAs9cdTqg  INTERESTED IN PODCASTING OR BEING A GUEST?: ·      PodMatch is awesome! This application streamlines the process of finding guests for your show and also helps you find shows to be a guest on. The PodMatch Community is a part of this and that is where you can ask questions and get help from an entire network of people so that you save both money and time on your podcasting journey.https://podmatch.com/signup/devannon  TRANSCRIPT: [00:00:00] You're listening to the sex drugs and Jesus podcast, where we discuss whatever the fuck we want to! And yes, we can put sex and drugs and Jesus all in the same bed and still be all right at the end of the day. My name is De'Vannon and I'll be interviewing guests from every corner of this world as we dig into topics that are too risqué for the morning show, as we strive to help you understand what's really going on in your life.There is nothing off the table and we've got a lot to talk about. So let's dive right into this episode.De'Vannon: Hey, y'all and welcome back to the sex drugs in Jesus podcast. I love having you every week. I, so look forward to it and this week is no different and we're coming in hot and heavy with episode 67. As we talk about some religious and church trauma. Y'all John Verner is my guess. And this man is a smart motherfucker.He is well educated. He is well learned, well traveled and well studied. He's the author of the book [00:01:00] called the cult of Christianity. He hosts a podcast after the same title. And in the days episode, we're discussing his very hurtful history with churches as he opens up about his very, very, very personal experiences while he's giving us at the same time, a very inside look at how churches work, because he's been on staff at churches and things like that before.I hope you're delighted about everything. John has to say take a listen.Hello? Are you beautiful bitches? I would like to welcome you right back here to the sex drugs and motherfucking Jesus podcast. I have with me a delicious that nutritious man by the name of John M I'm gonna pronounce his name as VAE because John: VAE, I love that.That's so no one's ever done that. That's good. That's my name from now on. I love that De'Vannon: he is the host of the coat of Christie Andy podcast, and he is [00:02:00] a, the author of a delicious and nutritious book titled the same. And everyone knows my history, my chaotic and turbulent history with the church. And so when I discovered this son of a bitch, I decided, Hey, John: hi.Hi. Hi, how you doing today? I am doing great. Thank you so much for having me on I love the, the title of your pod. I was laughing cuz haven't had a ton of sex. I've only done a little bit of drugs, but boy, I've done a lot of Jesus. So I'm, I'm happy to be on. De'Vannon: Oh, the way Jesus is packaged by these churches makes him just as much of a narcotic as anything.John: absolutely. Absolutely. De'Vannon: So you've had all the drugs and so. In your own words, tell us your history and everything. Before I open my cock holster and do it for you. John: all right. Sounds great. Yeah. So I grew up very religious [00:03:00] very Christian. I had what you might call like a, a reformed upbringing, which is kind of a more conservative and formal version of evangelicalism.And my dad was in leadership in the church. Church was a part of life. We went to Sunday morning and evening service. We went, you know, a couple times during the week. And so all my social life was at church. I was homeschooled. So church was kind of the world to me. But I was always a pretty skeptical child.Things didn't quite add up to me. So it wasn't until age 11, where I officially converted after asking a lot of questions about how we could trust the Bible and what if we're all questions? And so I was really good. Other than that, though, I was a goody two shoes, you know, never did nothing [00:04:00]wrong.But then after I converted to Christianity officially, I yeah. Decided to take it very seriously to the point where at 17 years old, I felt the call to be a pastor. And so started looking at college options and. There weren't a ton for undergrad. And so I was like, well, I want to, I wanna get going now I'm on fire now.Praise Jesus. So wanted to, I wanted to go be a pastor and I didn't want to have to wait eight years to do it. And so I found a good at the time reputable college where I could study biblical exposition. So I went and got that degree. I have a bachelor of arts and biblical exposition with an interdisciplinary literature and got that, got married, got hitched.And by the time I graduated, [00:05:00] I was a little burned out. I thought it was just normal ministry burn. And so I figured I'll take a little time off from this church stuff. I'll still go to church regularly. I was still a youth pastor. That's what taking it taking time off. Looks like when you're a Christian is just doing less, but still being very active.And so. Then I went through a very, very messy divorce that kind of drove me into a downward spiral. Had a bit of a, a flirtatious dance with alcoholism. I like to say where you know, I, and nothing really mattered anymore. And I was trying to reconcile all the problems I had had with Christianity my whole life that I just kept kind of putting on the back burner.And I got burned by the church. My ex-spouse got burned by the church as well through the process of our divorce. And I was like, you know, I'm not sure, I'm not sure if all of this [00:06:00] is true. Fast forwarding through a lot of funny stories. You get to me living in a van, traveling with my cat across the country where I started to write my book, the cult of Christianity, how church's control, contain, and convert.So I wrote that book was expecting a lot of backlash, got some . But not as much as I was expecting, I suppose. So that was nice and refreshing. And then in early 20, 21 I was thinking of different ways to promote the book. And I was like, oh, a lot of authors have podcasts to promote their books.So let me do it that way. And I was like, but you know, probably only six people will listen or whatever, it'll be nothing. And then the podcast did way better than the book did and so I got to start interviewing people. I was very interested in interviewing, including Christians that's. Some of my favorite stuff to do is get into interviews with [00:07:00] Christians.And so that's kind of what I do now. And currently I'm between seasons, but it's really been rewarding to be able to talk about from both my experience and my expertise. How Christianity, especially white American evangelicalism functions as a cult. That's me. De'Vannon: Hallelujah, tabernacle and praiseSo we're gonna dig deep into everything that you just said. I wanted to get into your podcast artwork though. Mm-hmm cause it there's this huge guy standing on a pedestal platform or a chair or something like that. And then three minions surrounding him and bowing. And I couldn't tell, is that supposed to be God or is that supposed to be the church or a preacher?What does that, what does this artwork mean John: to you? Wow, this is FA nobody's ever asked me this. This is a great question. So I've gone through different iterations of artwork have even consulted with other people to update the artwork, cuz it's pretty [00:08:00] old at this point and I haven't been able to get away from it.And one of the main reasons is I love the non-descript nature of it. There it's it's for, for your audience, it's basically clip art and it looks you can't tell if it's. The gender, the race you can't tell if it's God or if it's a preacher. And I like that because I think that's a lot of what goes on at church who, who is being worshiped.Who's the one bowing, the knee, who's the one on the pedestal. So every time I've tried to make the artwork more grabby or more interesting, I end up saying more with it than I mean to but the, the, the, the way I interpret it and other people can interpret it. Other ways is cults have hierarchies.There's always leaders and followers. There's always one person or several people on pedestals, and then other people just basically having to [00:09:00] submit to their authority and in any environment where that is demanded, I think it can qualify as a cult. My three alliterative words are control containment, conversion.And so I hope that the art communicates like that's, if you were able to zoom out and take away all the social constructs, that's kind of what Christianity actually is concur. De'Vannon: Yeah. I appreciate the, I appreciate the the ambiguity of the huge figure. And I I've said the same thing myself and I've, and I've been, I've done this in the past, you know, worship to pastors without really realizing it.I worship the building, the worship leaders you know, anybody up on a stage and yeah. And, you know, so, and I learned in, in my hypnotherapy training, you know, when a person is on a stage, we subconsciously bow them in a way, you know, before we even realize that just by virtue of them being on a stage.And [00:10:00] we're not really as critical of people as we should be, just because they're on a stage. So you said your Bible college was credible at the time. Did they fall into some scandal or anything since you grew? Oh John: A handful it's moody Bible Institute. You can just Google moody Bible Institute, controversy, moody Bible Institute, title nine moody Bible Institute you know abuse, whatever while, while I was there, I mean about just while I was a student there were about.I would say at least two or three, pretty like nationally recognizable scandals. The thing is, it's such a small school that people forget about it very quickly. The campus I went to doesn't even exist anymore. It's it's shut down. They only have one campus now in Chicago and I believe they're struggling pretty hard.But yeah, the, the [00:11:00] what's funny though, is the education I received at the secondary campus, I would say was, was shockingly solid. It was, it was pretty good. But the culture was brutal. It was bad toxic from the top down. De'Vannon: Lie, scandals and John: deceptions. Yeah, the fun. So De'Vannon: a gondola , but you were pretty good.I read where you, you were one of two recipients of the, the moody Bible Institute, home tical jury award for outstanding ING in the year 20 scene. So does that mean you can hoop and holler or John: what? Yeah, I, I won preaching. So yeah, it was silly. It's it's so every graduating senior at moody Bible Institute, I believe on both campuses faces a Holi jury homily, just meaning sermons a jury, meaning people who judge youAnd so [00:12:00] you stand before, it's usually a panel. I think it's four judges, usually a preacher from the local community, the preaching prof. An administrator and another professor and yeah, scored almost perfect on my sermon. So it was fun. But can you imagine anything more boring than a bunch of 22 year olds preaching 30 minutes sermons for three to five hours over two days and sitting through them and marking them on how good their gestures are, their use of visual aids.Did I get the big idea of their sermon? That kind of thing. But I'm apparently I was really good at it, so I don't know what that says about me, but you, De'Vannon: you preached for three or to five hours straight for three John: days. Oh, I just preached 30 minutes, but there was the students rotate through. Okay.For hours. Yeah. Okay. So what De'Vannon: I'm curious about. You, you, you, you, you just said like a few of the things that they critique you on. [00:13:00] I wanna know exactly how they analyze a sermon for quality, because this is my gripe I have with, with this new culture where these churches, the, they pre-write the sermon, they gotta get previewed by the board or whatever, you know, before it's put out to the church, I feel like they're doing that so they can be sure they have certain keywords and phrases and everything.So they can effectively, still mind fuck the congregation. to me, it feels like it's not as authentic. You know, it as how, when you read, like, you know, the Hebrew Bible and everything like that, when those people preach, they just got up and spoke. It was the same thing were the preachers who raised me.There was none of this. I need to write it down shit. And so, yeah. What, what rubric, what are they checking for? John: Wow. This is a huge, I mean, this is worth a whole episode. I, I, I particularly enjoy deconstructing how servants work, because I think a lot of people don't [00:14:00] even know the process and there are a million different styles.So the camp I was trained in would be called big idea, preach. There are literally books about different styles and structures of sermons. But the I guess philosophy or, or ministry style I, I was trained in is called big idea preaching. Big idea. Preaching just means there's one big idea you're trying to get across throughout the whole sermon.It's you repeat one phrase? The sermon I won on the big idea was God lets us be lonely so that we will know he is our only which boy, is that a problematic statement? But, but it won. And so, so, so many things, one in, in the camp I'm trained in, you memorize your sermon, meaning you manuscript it, you type every single word you're going to [00:15:00] say, and you memorize it.You have no notes. And I'm very thankful for that, cuz it makes you an effective speaker. But when. I'm most cynical about my degree. I joke that I have a degree in Ted talks because that's kind of what sermons, at least in the more trendy churches are now. Some of the more old school, if you're in a traditional Protestant church, you might hear three point sermons that was very common.They'll usually have an alliteration or something like that, you know, three CS or, you know, four DS or whatever. Mm-hmm, kind of a point by point sermon that's pretty common. Most sermons are gonna have a, basically like a, a three part structure, a hook, you know, where you get people interested in listening to you.It could be a personal story or an anecdote from history or something like that. Then it's got the meat of the content that can look like reading through the Bible and commentary style, you know, where you're just commenting on the verses as you're going through, or it can [00:16:00] be principles you've drawn out.You might, this is where you would do word studies or talk about the original context and then application, or what, why is this relevant? Is usually the third part in the style I was trained in. And that third part is where you relate it back to Jesus and the gospel story. So sermons are very ordered and structured now in different eras of history, they have been different things.And even in the us, I mean, during the great awakening, they were very you know, fire in brimstone. We joke about that, but, but they were oftentimes off the top of the head and very impassioned different cultures worldwide have viewed sermons very differently. Sermons, in my opinion, didn't even really exist back in ancient Judaism they, they were more storytellers and, and so there might have been parables, but what we would think of [00:17:00] now as a sermon, I, I don't think quite existed until probably the apostolic era.Probably I don't even personally think Jesus preached sermons which is not a popular belief, but I think he was just speaking and people were following him. And some of it got written down. So, so sermons mean different things to different people. But if we're talking about the word preach and Greek, I mean, it really just means proclaiming or talking.It, it's not a thing that a special person ordained by a committee reviewed by peers is supposed to speak about, it's not an academic thing or at least it wasn't originally. So it's definitely turned into something quite different than it used to be.What do De'Vannon: you think about Joel Ostein? John: I love him. De'Vannon: wait. I bring him up. I know. I, I get to sarcasm in your toes. Yeah. I, I [00:18:00] bring him up because that's the church that I was at before I got kicked out. And mm-hmm, I talk about, I talk about Lakewood church a lot because that's where my greatest church trauma happened at.Had it been at beque church of God in Christ or Sally's church, or the way that I would talking about beque or Sally and not Joe Ostein, but that's just where the shit went down. And it just happens to be the largest church in America. And but it's convenient for my task. Since he is, since he does own the largest church in America, other churches look up to him and they try to emulate the things that they do.And so, and that's why I like to dissect them all the time, because you have a lot of people, there's people who even like stream and broadcast their service into like their gym auditorium. And that is their service. Right. At least the case when I still went there. So their influences is global mm-hmm what, what do you, what, what, just tell me what you think [00:19:00] about them.John: So I have a, probably the strangest X evangelical non-Christian anymore relationship with Joel Ostein in that everyone wants to talk about him. And they did when I was at Bible college too, like in, in a negative light. And he deserves a lot of it. Don't get me wrong. I mean, he is, he is very like outwardly Almost unapologetically in it for the money.I mean, you don't have to be a super like analytical person to just look at his church and go something doesn't add up here. The problem with him is he is a great scapegoat for more local churches and people who think they're better than Joel Ostein. And they're not doing the exact same things that Joel Ostein does.He's a great scapegoat for them to say, yeah, you gotta watch out for wolves and sheeps closing, like Joel Ostein instead of facing how they operate Colts in very similar ways. So [00:20:00] that's kind of the angle I come at it from don't get me wrong. Everything negative anyone's ever said about Joel Ostein is probably true.But he does not scare me as much as the local churches do. Primarily because local churches don't have a national audience. They're not under the same kind of microscope. They can get away with a lot more. So those are just my initial thoughts, but I'm happy to dig into more De'Vannon: dissect the preaching style.So when I was there, people used to, you know, criticize him for being too happy. They would say people would jump up in the middle of a sermon and holler and stuff before security and their asses out of the building and stuff like that. I'd show up the church and there'd be protestors and everything like that.I thought all of that was a bit extreme. Mm-hmm but, but I don't know. I mean, on the one hand, I [00:21:00] was like, I'm happy to hear something happy instead of the fire in the Bri me Stoney. But since after I got kicked out of there, I went through so much bad stuff. The person I am now like a message, like his would be too, like Milky, like it wouldn't sustain.Like it, it doesn't really speak to deep shit. John: Yeah. Well, so the it's kind of like the concept of toxic positivity, right. He, and, and in Christian circles, they'll call it the prosperity gospel. So yeah, I think that's bad. I think it's bad not to be able to admit that life is tough and hard and like has bad things in it.And when you're unable to articulate that it's suspicious. I because the background I came from was never positive and toxically cynical. Again, Joel Ostein doesn't trigger me as much. I'm like, oh look, someone being a nice person. Who's a Christian. That's refreshing. [00:22:00] So, so that's kind of what I, I think, but I will say, so I read, I read your best life now.And I, you know, I was in a culture that thought Joel Ostein was the devil. And so I always kind of was more charitable towards him than a lot of other people. But as far as the preaching style, he's a great speaker and people who emulate him are gonna be great speakers. Why? Because it's the same formula Ted talks do.You can watch a Ted talk and think it's the most amazing thing you've ever heard. And then you sit back for another five minutes and you're like, I have no idea what they actually. Like, I, I don't, I don't know if they said anything of value at all, or if they just have such a good speaking style that it was engaging, regardless of whether the material was actually relevant to anythingSo I think the same thing goes on with Joel Ostein. I think it's nice to listen to 'em it feels good. And then you sit back and you go, you didn't really say anything like nothing, [00:23:00] nothing profound was said, I De'Vannon: concur. And y'all when he says your best life. Now he's talking about Joel's first book. And I read that one too.And I agree with you. I was like, and even as I was going to church there for all those years, it got to a point, well, the sermons started being repeated from time to right. And then I would kind of be like and especially now that I'm away from it, I'm like the fuck that you really just say , but you know, that's a part of the whole.Hypnosis aspect of it, you know, by the time you're done with all the laser lights and the worship and the smoke fog and everything like that, your critical mind is blasted. Like you don't have any yeah. You're just open to whatever the fuck is going to be said. And and what you said about it being a formula, it's true.Like I see the same shit replicated in all the OST stings, the way they preach. Mm-hmm, be it, the ones there at Lakewood or their extended family to have other churches in Texas and stuff like that. [00:24:00] And the way they all crank out these books and everything, you know, it finally collected me when, like, this is not it's like, so like rare and special.This is not necessarily God saying thou shall preach this. Or thou she write this book, right. Bitch has got an ABC 1 23 algorithm. And you're just repeating the same shit over again. Mm-hmm and then my problem is with that is that they don't share it to the whole world. Like they're only giving it to like their select few people.Yeah, John: well, any good business model, you don't give away all your content for free, right? And churches are no different. You know, they, they claim everything is free. But it's not, it's, it's a, it's an MLM. It's you know, the, and, and that comes in my opinion, from their theological perspective, that all you need to have a good life is to just believe Jesus was God.I mean, that's a crazy formula to assume, and it comes with a million asterisk because you can [00:25:00] believe Jesus is God, but then all of a sudden you have to serve in the church. You have to have these kind of sexual practices. You have to raise this kind of family. You there's a lot of strings attached the further in you goDe'Vannon: hallelujah, tabernacle and praise. So I wanna go back to this divorce, so sure. How do you identify sexually? John: I don't no, I I I, for, for the sake of my queer friends, I will say that I am SISs head to society. SISs head SISs head SISs head as I'm a cisgender man heterosexual. Sure. Yeah, we'll just go with that.Personally. My, my personal feelings about sexuality is everybody's on a spectrum. The labels are helpful sometimes, but for broad stroke purposes, but if [00:26:00] you actually wanted to get to know me, a simple conversation with a simple label will never do the trick. Oh. De'Vannon: So I might get to have my way with you yet.John: gotta keep the hope alive. De'Vannon: Hercules Hercules. And so, yeah, so, so. I wanna know just how nasty it got with this divorce. Cause I've talked to people like I was kicked out cause they found out I wasn't straight. And they were like, basically you're pedophile will give you conversion therapy if you want it.Other than that, you can't stay. Yeah. So when, and I, but I I've heard of churches treating people who get divorced the same way. Like I don't think getting divorced is I have a lot of opinions on that, but just tell me what happened. I wanna know just, just how nasty did they get? John: Yeah. So I I'll mention, you know, there's obviously parts that I'll omit just outta respect for my expo.But what I will say is it, it came about suddenly it wasn't directly related to any [00:27:00] spiritual issues. We were both, I mean we met at Bible college. So, you know, there, there were expectations that went along with that that I think. Both of us had expectations that changed as we got older, but had no tools to communicate them because we were so indoctrinated to do it a Christian way, but the Christian way did not fit what we wanted to be in our life.So and I wish I was as mature as I am now to, I, I would never have been able to articulate that while it was happening. And, and I was a pretty bad husband. I, I do take 99, if not a hundred percent of the responsibility for that marriage ending. But as far as how it related to the church, they wanted to be so involved and basically micromanage the process of us getting [00:28:00] back together, which initially was both of our goals.When we first separated, we did, we didn't do a clean break. You know, we were. She they had moved out and we were trying to you know, figure out if there was a path forward. And we were, you know, seeing a relationship coach we were actually communicating better than we ever had, but the church was concerned that our relationship coach wasn't, you know, a biblical counselor or whatever.And every time they would meet with us, which we met with them a lot both the head pastor and associate pastor it was like a very mob like, or mafia, like where, you know, well, what are you, are you doing it this way? You know, what, what kind of do, are you interested in our community? I, we would sometimes skip church, right?Because we were exhausted cuz it was an exhausting time and every time we skip church, they would say, even if it's too triggering for y'all to come to ours, you'd need to be going somewhere. [00:29:00]You should never skip church basically. And so it, it, it. It really hurt because by this point I had been burned by churches in big ways, at least two times prior.And so this was definitely a final straw moment for me because I knew what to expect and it happened. And it was just kind of like the, the two previous experiences had really led me to believe that churches can be really toxic, but they're not supposed to be. And the third one was kind of the, the, you know, what do they say in comedy?Two is a suggestion, three confirms the pattern. It was a confirming the pattern that, oh, this is what churches do. This isn't like exception to the rule anymore. They make people feel like crap if they don't do things their way. And it hurt really bad. So that was all kind of vague. I can get [00:30:00]into some more of the details, but, but in general, the idea was.If I did not follow a very specific pass path, I was not going to be welcome regardless of the fact that I had more religious education than most of the congregation, regardless of the fact that I had been a pastoral intern and youth pastor with them, regardless of the fact that I had written some of their policies to protect their children because they had none, regardless of all this effort I had put in, it didn't matter.I was still under their control. De'Vannon: What do you think gives churches the this, this notion that they can poke their nose and the people's personalized? Why do John: they're they're divinely appointed to do so in their head? I mean, that's, that's why they're there. God has put them there to watch over the F.I mean, this is, it is it's from top to bottom, their mentality. [00:31:00] There's there's leaders and followers at church. There always will be because that's, that's the structure that has, has come about. And Catholicism it's stark, right? Like it's, it's obvious, like you have the Pope, you have priests. It's a very, like, you know, they'll even be like you know what clergy is supposed to be abstinent depending on who you ask, but most would say are supposed to be abstinent.I mean, there's like these hu and dressed differently. I mean, these are huge markers, the same things present in evangelicalism and Protestantism. It's just more secretive. It's not as out to the public. They dress different, they talk different, they look different, they eat different. They have different schedules.Everything is different between leaders and follow. Because De'Vannon: when I was and all, all of those activities reinforces the hypnosis and the mind. Fuck. Yeah. Cause it was, I was at Lakewood. They would bring me into the office and ask me if I had a girlfriend. Yeah. You know, see what I'm John: like. It [00:32:00] matters like yeah.De'Vannon: You know, like and that's a huge problem I have with Joel because when he gets on camera, he's all like, everyone's welcome, you know, case sirrah. Yeah. But then he has these policies going on behind closed door that are very discriminatory. Some people have even alleged, possibly legal, you know, and stuff like that.And and so it's just really like a trip. And so you said that you wrote policies to protect children, protect them from. John: Well, just like with any church, you should have policies about you know, relationships with youth ministers and, and kids and, and policies about you know, if, if you're gonna do like any kind of field trips with kids, that kind of stuff, you should just have policies things for parents to sign, just to protect you legally.It's, it's honestly as much to protect the church as anything else from, from lawsuits. But in my opinion, you should also just wanna protect kids from [00:33:00] abuse. And they just didn't have, I mean, they were a pretty young church plant and they just didn't have any after I was pretty much shown the door at that church, I learned they, the policies, they said they weren't gonna use that.I had written, they ended up using them anyways and plagiarizing and saying someone else had written them, not my biggest the biggest crime anyone's ever done against me. So I'm like, I'm happy those policies are there. so it's fine. But yeah, I mean, it's, it's just, it was kind of the, the toxicity of that environment, De'Vannon: because I was wondering.Like when I signed up the volunteering in the kids department at Lakewood, they had like a clause on their saying specifically that they did not want any homosexual serving around their children. Wow. John: That's specific. Dang, because De'Vannon: they hold a they're, they're the type of people who are like, you're either straight or a pedophile and that's wild and that's just where they're at on that.There is no spectrum for them. And so and so when you said you wrote policies to protect children, I was wondering if it was that same sort of anti LGBTQ thing? No, [00:34:00]John: no, I I've I at my most evangelical and at my most bigoted, which I, I would say I was still bigoted. I still never believed in othering.Queer people. It just never, it never got in at that indoctrination. She never sat in there. it just didn't work. My best friend she's trans and we grew up in the same church together. Same churches actually, when I switched changed churches in high school her family did as well. And so when, when sh I, I, even before she came out, like, I, I wasn't super gung-ho about being bigoted.I always thought Westboro was evil, even at my most evangelical, like, you know, that kind of vitriol hate. I never understood, but I would still say, you know, the bigoted things of like, it's not the best way to please God or some bullshit like that. But but yeah, a after she came out and I started reading [00:35:00] more I kind of took the opinion.I was like, even if it is a sin, which I probably did still think it was. I just was like, it just doesn't seem like that big of a deal. like, I, and it's also someone else's business and it probably didn't help at the time that I had my own hatred towards my own sexuality. You know, even just like masturbating felt like, you know, very shameful to me.So I probably thought it was all garbage. So like who cares which is not necessarily the health healthiest mindset. So no, by the time I was, I was writing church policy. I was not I was not like, yeah. And make sure they're not gay, that, that wasn't in my head at all.Hallelujah. De'Vannon: Tabernacle and praise. What, what for you, do you feel like is the deepest, the deepest [00:36:00] religious or church trauma that you received from your time? I agree with you. It really, really sucks when you've served at a church for a while and you have this history and stuff like that, and it all gets discarded right along with you, because in their opinion, you have fallen from grace.You've done any, you know, you've, you've, you know, none of it, none of it matters. You know, the years that I was at Lakewood and the, the 10, the 10, 12 hours you know, the 10 to 12 hours that I was there every week and stuff like that, you know, it's all great. And we can't replace you. We can't do it without you, until they find the blemish.Then suddenly, you know what, we have a new person coming in today and your services are like, you know, no longer need you're fired from everything. Goodbye. Unless of course you do our conversion therapy package. For me it felt like a [00:37:00] bad breakup. It can, yeah, terrible breakup and It was like the end of a relationship.And, and that is my deepest church or religious trauma that I have ever experienced anywhere. So I'm wondering what it is for you. John: Yeah, it's really hard to rank trauma because it all kind of compounds and turns into the same, cuz you know, even if it's not religious trauma, even if it's any kind of trauma, typically you're going to experience similar kinds of trauma throughout your life.Just based on your personality type, your ways of thinking, how you develop as a child, those kind of factors. So it's hard for me to just like pick a, like a silo, like, oh, this one is the, is the kick. I like to talk about my first one, which is it's a very first chapter in my book. I talk about [00:38:00] being I had written a letter to the pastor and elders at 16 years old at the church I was attending. And I I felt that they were not treating the, the youth, the young, young adults and teenagers very well at that church. They weren't being very respectful towards youth and they had different problematic teachings that I was identifying at 16 years old.And so when I'd written this letter, they said, well, let's talk about it. And so they called me into the church into this horrible, like boardroom meeting. And it really did, like, I don't know if you ever watched the apprentice I did. And like that kind of boardroom, it was just very daunting.And they, they, it was three, the three elders I knew the best. And my parents and I and [00:39:00] I actually asked to do it alone. I was like, this is my deal. I wrote the letter. My parents don't need to be here. And so my parents asked if they'd be comfortable with that. So so they asked, they asked my parents, if it was okay, if I faced them alone, they said, yes. And They just ripped into me for like two to three hours. They called my long hair sinful. That was the big, the big thing I took with me, which is why to this day I still have long hair.And they, you know, said the way we dressed was like the world. They said we hugged the female youth too long, me and my, my best friend and just all this crazy stuff. And it was the first time. And, and what was so crazy about it? They were using scripture so wrongly to justify all their shitty opinions, like clearly like no sane person knowing the context or what the [00:40:00] verses even said themselves would use it.There's that verse that says, let no one despise you for your youth. They use that to say, and that means you shouldn't be worthy of SPR of despise. like, it literally communicates the opposite of that. And so that was the first moment. So I think. I obviously experienced in my opinion, probably worse trauma later related to churches.But I think that was of the aha moment of, oh, even if I'm gonna remain a Christian, I really need to pay attention to what they're actually saying and why they're saying it. So that's the one that sticks with me and probably is responsible for some of my current trust issues. My current anxieties that kind of thing.De'Vannon: It's funny to me how, when it's convenient, these preachers wanna be like, Hey, don't be like the world. Don't, don't fuck with be Zub, you know, and don't [00:41:00] do all that. But when it comes time, you know, time for something that is going to to benefit them, Then they want to be like the world. And so I see this when it comes time to the way they structure the church business models.Yeah. When they pay out salaries and shit like that when they organize the churches behind the scenes and form them mezz like LLCs and shit like that, you know, they don't pay taxes and stuff like that. That's one of my biggest gripes against Lakewood because my friend Barry Bowen, who works with the Trinity foundation in Texas, which investigates churches and stuff like that did, did, did some digging and found out that Lakewood church only has like one actual member on file.You know, it's run by the whole, the whole family is on the board. It's just a bunch of, EENs making all the decisions, but, you know, Which is a very like worldwide thing, you know, there's no voting happening. There's no [00:42:00] congregation, no involvement in decisions and stuff like that. So on the one hand, it's like, Hey, you all are a member, but not really.you know, it's just like in word indeed. So we're gonna pay everyone at church corporate salaries, like the world, we're gonna go business model, like the world, we in a structure, our goddamn sermons, like the motherfucking world, but we don't want y'all to hug too much cuz that would be too worldly and don't drink and for God's sake, cause don't go to a gay bar cause we can't have you looking like the world?No, can we John: yeah. Well and, and again, no notice that pattern. Who can look like the world and who can't, the leaders can look like the world, the followers cannot. The leaders, the, the same rules do not apply to both leaders and followers in church. And what's funny is they would teach with, with their words.They would say, because leaders are held to a higher standard, but time and time. And again, we find they're held to a much lower standard than [00:43:00] followers are. De'Vannon: These are the hypocrites that Jesus warned us about. John: Yeah, Jesus doesn't seem like he was that big of a fan of religious leaders. So no, De'Vannon: he really wasn't though.And, and I wanna give a shout out to my homeboy, Steven, from the book of acts who also threw all the shade at the religious leaders too. He got his ass stoned for it, but you know what? A great honor that Jesus stood up from his position, seated at the right hand of God to receive him at his death. So I'm hashtag team Steven all the way.Fuck the preachers. Fuck the Pope. Fuck every goddamn damn body, but yay God. And so, so I'm gonna switch gears now to your, particularly to your podcast up until now. We just kind of like been talking yeah. About you. So your podcast are called Christianity. I wanna read just some of the titles. I think the titles are just like really titillating [00:44:00] mm-hmm Conversion therapy, Catholicism and Protestant Protestantism.There's so much history between Catholicism and protest Protestantism because my friend Jeffrey Crans runs a website called overview bible.com and he get, he has these really colorful pictures that breaks down like the Bible and shit like that, and is really super fantastic. And I cannot wait to have them on my show, but, you know, from him, I learned, you know, originally like the Catholics had like said like 73 books of the Bible and the Protestants had like 66 and it was like this whole thing and shit like that.And I really don't like the Catholic church. Let's see mental health too narcissism marketing divorce, faith versus works afterlife. And then religious freedom, which is one that I pulled a few questions from. Okay. So [00:45:00] So you talk about like what, what, what, what we've been lied to about. And I was happy to listen to your podcast and hear your own words, echo some of my greatest gripes bitches, moans legitimate complaints against the church.And I don't know if they all meant well, if they were just trying to give us their versions of the truth. So they didn't trust us to make up our own damn minds. But I think about how, like when I was raised and they told me don't drink any alcohol at all, because it's all terrible and bad, don't do any drugs at all because they're all terrible and bad.Don't masturbate. Don't look at porn, don't dance, secular music. Don't go to the bar. And as I've gotten older, now, I realize there's actually therapeutic uses for drugs. And the Lord said not to get drunk, but not to have it, you know, not to not have any of it at all. So if you lied about this, then now I don't trust anything else you have to say.Mm-hmm . And so what do you think about that? John: Yeah, well, alcohol is the drug I have the most experience with. So [00:46:00] you know, and so Christianity, especially the American variety has a really strange relationship with alcohol. There's certainly like subcultures kind of like Baptist are, are the ones that come to mind that take a very anti alcohol stance which is odd since if what's reported about Jesus is to be believed.He definitely drank and enabled people to drink. So it's weird to be a complete tea total, but I would also guess that among Christian cultures, alcohol's probably the most abused drug among them because they're, it's not seen as taboo in the us as some of the other drugs. So, so either way, in my opinion, with alcohol, it's kind of one of those things where if they're prohibiting it it's for the sake of their control, if they're abusing it, it's for the sake of control or containment or coping with [00:47:00]what they're dealing with, you know, so to me, it, it always will just go back to the controlling containment and conversion.So yeah, as far as like how they present that and lie and, and make it, you know, either add rules that aren't present in, in scripture or early Christianity. So my perspective probably goes like this, I think. I think Jesus was the first to reduce a lot of rules. And then ever since him, every Christian has added rules, I think Paul added rules, I think actually most of the apostles added rules personally.I think that a lot of the early church was trying to figure out what it was like to not have as many rules as the previous versions of Judaism. I think that Constantine made all these religious rules now have a relationship with [00:48:00] the, the state and with governments, you know, I think after the east west schism, there were, you.At the, the east Orthodox church and the Roman Catholic church had arguments about how you interpreted the nice creed and, and created more rules out of one creed. I mean, it just, it, it snowballs to the point where you're in the United States and your average church is just going to say things that are, that don't have a source in the Bible that don't have a source in historical understandings of Judaism that don't have historical understandings of what's reported about Jesus.So the lies, whether they're intentional or not don't really matter. It's just, it's so distant. It's hard to even comprehend or trust much of any of it, in my opinion. Mm-hmm De'Vannon: and you were saying like on this particular episode about religious freedoms, how [00:49:00] you feel like the religious freedoms most often protect.Like already established religions. Yeah. As opposed to individual people's religious freedoms. And you give a really nice history of how there used to be all these Christian mandates at different states. And they used to have to recite belief in the Trinity or stuff like that. I think like in Massachusetts.So speak to us about how the religious freedom in this country is really more for organized religion and not John: the person. Well, it's, it's, it's not very much freedom or religion, right? Like it's, , it's it's it's politics more or less. I mean, freedom. The word freedom means very little in Christianity across the board.In my opinion, I the only freedom that I ever resonated with was this idea of freedom in Christ. And now looking back, I'm not sure how much I even resonated with that idea. There's this whole problem of free will of like, does God control everything or are we. Just kind of robots following a script [00:50:00] or are we just doing whatever we want and God judges us based on it.I mean, it's, it's very confusing when you start getting into the idea of freedom and Christianity specifically, but true religious freedom would look like I can practice my religion in any way that doesn't harm others or myself. That's, that's pretty simple. I don't know what that has to do with abortion.I don't know what that has to do with marriage. I don't, I, I don't understand what the disconnect is there. From a rational perspective, I really didn't understand it that much when I was a Christian, even when I thought that gay marriage was sinful, whatever, I thought that meant, I thought it should be legal, cuz it didn't make any sense.Right? It's like, well, marriage is a legal process in the country. It's it's the same word. Clearly means something different to Christians than it does to non-Christian. So why should we be regulating what other people do? Again, that, that [00:51:00] controlling that cult-like mentality of thing, everyone needs to do it our way or get out.That's present in this, this idea of religious freedom which really, again, it's just a, it's just, , it's just a lie. I mean, it, it really just means Christian exceptionalism. I mean, that's probably the, the best term for what it's actually describing De'Vannon: hall, tabernacle and praise. And you also were saying like how the religious rules, the people, and now this is all.White men making up all these rules and shit like that. One of my biggest gripes is that when all this shit was done, when king James, who, according to the book of queer documentary on the discovery channel king, James himself, the author of the king James Bible was a big old queer honey, if you haven't seen it, you need to watch it.You know, all these people, these are all just like white homies. [00:52:00] They didn't have women at the table. They didn't have indigenous people at the table. They didn't have other racists. And certainly not black people, not in this country. We were only three fourths of a person for fuck's sake, you know, for so long, they didn't give a shit about what any of us had to say.And so, so it is impossible that the Bible was interpreted, translated and put together and all of this with everybody in mind, this was written white perspective, you know, Sounds about white. Let me see here. Mm-hmm so, so you said that, you know, religious, the religious rules were designed though by some white man who had some God sense because not every white, white boy is a fucking fool.You actually have some John: good one. We mostly are though. just to be very clear. We're mostly fools. I was gonna say De'Vannon: it. And so if you were saying like the, the few good white men actually put these religious rules in place to protect the church from hurting people, you were saying really didn't originate from within the church.The church had their own way. They would've spun out all [00:53:00] Willy nilly. So talk about how the, the rules are really designed to, to, to stop the church from becoming a monster, even though it did anyway. John: Yes. You're talking about some of the founding fathers at the beginning of the, yeah, so, so the, so first of all, not only were they white guys, they were white young guys, the worst kind you know, at the, at the founding of our country and like.It's there's there was so much religious tension at the founding of our, you almost never hear this, but like it's, you don't have to look far. You can just read what these guys wrote. They like, some of them thought Christianity was the worst thing that has ever happened in history and wrote explicitly saying that, I mean, I'm paraphrasing slightly.I might be paraphrasing in a nicer way than what they were saying. And then there were some who thought it should be a theocracy straight. Puritans very much had this mentality that we just need to be [00:54:00] completely different from the church of England. That's what we need to be. Then you had you know, like you had clashing of cultures at the beginning that state to state the religious culture was different in the original 13 colonies.You know, the north was much more well, I'll start with the south. The south was much more like Calvinist and like formal. The, the middle colonies had much more of this kind of quakes, like approach to spirituality. And then the north was creating something new entirely. I mean, it was, we've always been divided.There's never been like a Christian nationalist foundation. There's never been a Christian nation in that sense. And there's also never been like a completely anti-religion vein through what was written. History's complicated. and sometimes we're just too dumb or too lazy to actually take a look and read about all the different things that are going on in an era and just read what the winners said.And that's really [00:55:00] irresponsible in my opinion. So yes, there were some rules that were trying to protect people. The first amendment was supposed, was never supposed to be. Churches can do whatever they want. It was always supposed to be we'll keep the church under the law. As long as the church understands, they are not above the law, they can do whatever they want.That was what the first amendment was supposed to be. Now it means churches are above the law. They can have those tax exemptions. They can abuse people and deal with it internally, unlike businesses or other organizations, they can exempt themselves from title IX stuff, which is what protects people from being sexually abused on college campuses.They can exempt themselves from that. This is the kind of craziness we're dealing with now. And you can only do that if you're master manipulators, who are the, the largest cult that's ever existed, goddamn. De'Vannon: Okay. [00:56:00] So John: In my opinion, I should always say that just after everything, say De'Vannon: child, it is what it is.You know, I pray for people to take their own look at stuff. And it's hard cause you know, people are raised as kids into this cult, you know? And so trying to unwind, fuck somebody, you know, as bad as it is. I thank God for all of the knowledge that's also available. Yeah. Because it's not like you have to go dig up a, a thick ass concordance.Like what I had when I was in, you know, learning and shit, right. That you can like Google shit. You can watch documentaries. You can listen to podcasts. There's so many books about the fuckery of the church. And so a person is only going to stay ignorant if they kinda wanna stay ignorant in this day time.So it's like the worst it gets. I feel like God is also still giving us a way out of it or a reprieve, you know, to some people. John: Yeah. Well, I, I agree. I would say the unfortunate thing about the information age. It is great. It is great that you can [00:57:00] access. I, I I'm partial to books. I think articles are fine, but really to get to know history, especially read a whole book.But I will say what's unfortunate about that is as equal to the truth as we have in the information age, just as much propaganda is out there and Christians are propaganda making machines. They've been doing it for a long time. They're better at it than anybody. So I, I want to hope, oh, with all this information, a kid who's struggling with church will be able to, you know, watch a TikTok video, go down an internet rabbit hole and find out all this good stuff.The problem is they can also go down a rabbit hole and become a school shooter. They can go down a rabbit hole and become a Christian nationalist just as easy. So that's quite frightening to me.So true. So true. De'Vannon: Well, well, people better get close to God and gain spiritual understanding, you know? Yeah. That way you can have some discernment about what it is that's [00:58:00] being presented to you and be able to detect whether or not it's good or bad. John: Discernment's very important spiritual or not, but yes, having a discerning mind and, and I'm not anti spiritual personally.So I think there's definitely a a route that, of spirituality that can be very positive and good for both your own soul and for other people.De'Vannon: Should I throw a touch of shade? Do it. I'm just going to say, say, and I'm talking about Paula white mm-hmm and again, Jolo thing just because why not? I just think it's really, really fucked up when as separated church and state is supposed to be, you see people like Paul White.Hanging out with Donald Trump, you know, of course he was surrounded by evangelicals anyway. And I just, I really, it just really bugs me. You know, I got kicked out of Lakewood for hanging out in S in the gay district, you know, when I wasn't at church. And then Joe [00:59:00] Osen was on stage with Kanye west, you know, who is the last time I checked.Isn't exactly like, you want your kids to grow up and be like that guy, you know, John: he went off the rails. Holy cow. Which time . Yeah, exactly. De'Vannon: do you mean when he was on stage with Joel or some? Just in general. John: Oh, he is just author. Yeah. I mean, just post-Trump era, just post Trump, era Kanye. I mean, he's always been a little bit narcissistic and crazy, but like, man, he really took it to 11 after, after that.And De'Vannon: so it just, it just baffles me, but I guess it doesn't. We don't really know these preachers. We just know the face that put on. When they're in front of the camera, we don't really know them motherfuckers, you know, for you to think that it is a high moral ground to break bread with Kanye west on stage.You know, [01:00:00] I don't get that, you know, and then to be like, Donald Trump is the greatest person. He's the savior of God he's sent, I don't get this. So John: yeah. Unfortunately I feel like I do get it. I feel like it fits perfectly only because from my understanding of the development of Christianity it narcissists are rewarded.I mean, that's just what it does. It rewards an narcissism. And so yes, I, I think it's very sad and upsetting when yeah. Jesus who might have been, I'm really gonna say something controversial. Jesus, who was probably queer himself. Would've definitely Spent more time with, in a, in a gay community than he would've with a, a president.I mean that, I think that's a it's it would be crazy to characterize Jesus any other way. That De'Vannon: do be facts though, because when he was here, he did hang [01:01:00] out with the unpopular people. You know, it was him who defended the, the town who, you know, with him hanging out the John: ma the majority of Christians, even after Jesus died for the first hundred years, war prostitutes, criminals and tax collectors, the outcast of society, those for the first hundred years.And, and probably a little bit after that, but definitely those first a hundred that's who wanted to be Christians, there was a version of Judaism that now accepted those people. Whereas before there was a version of Judaism that would never accept those kinds of people.De'Vannon: So you're saying you believe like Paula white, Joel Ostein, and a lot of these religious people are straight up narcissists. John: Well, you have to be to being right. I mean, to, to do, to have the kind of image they do. I mean, I find, I have to fight narcissism with a small podcast, right? Like, I can't imagine having that many people looking at you.You said something earlier where you said we, we see these preachers, but we [01:02:00] don't really know who they are. I don't think they know who they are because the the religion messes with your head when I was just preaching to a youth group or getting paid to, you know, go across state lines to give a sermon or whatever.I, I didn't have time for introspection. I was a narcissist as much as anyone. It's part of why I was such a bad husband. I, I, you get in your head about these things automatically. It's a, it's a toxic system from the top down and no one is exempt from the, the horrible mindsets it can instill in you. De'Vannon: Give me more of this.Give me an example of a narcissistic thought, a narcissistic thing that you did than you feel like is common among preachers. John: Well, yeah, it's hard for, it's harder to think. It's not like a thought it's like your, okay, so this is gonna, might be long winded. So I apologize if it [01:03:00] is. If you narcissism is primarily bred when it's not like an actual mental disorder, but when it comes about later in life, it's primarily bred from an apathetic mindset, meaning you don't care about anything when you don't care about anything.The only thing that grounds you to reality is yourself. That's it. That's all you've got because you have to live in your body. You have to wake up, you have to go to sleep, you have to eat, you have to do these things. So the only real reality is yourself. So. It rather than having thoughts people treat the word narcissism, like it just means like abusing people or something.Narcissism is unfortunately way deeper rooted than that. It's an inability to get outside yourself in the way it ends up coming out in a more so sociopathic way, meaning you don't care about right or wrong, you [01:04:00] end up just living your life, devoid of taking into account other people's feelings. So for me, one of the biggest regrets of my life is how, when I was married, I just did not give a shit about my spouse's feelings.I just didn't care. My feelings mattered more than theirs. It wasn't like a conscious decision where I was like, woke up and was like, well, what I want matters and what they want. Doesn't that wasn't my mentality. It was bred in, it was a state of mind where I would want to do something that they, and they would want to do something else.And I won because I cared more about what I wanted to do than what they wanted to do. It applies in church culture, too. Pastors, you see it all the time as a pastoral intern, I, I had another pastoral intern with me. We had a great, I idea for a homeless ministry that would've been so great. It was basically like make a little, I, I lived in Spokane Washington at the time, huge homeless community.I was like, [01:05:00] why don't we make little kits? Like just, you know, protein bars, socks, like, you know, just, just something to lift their day. We can get the whole church together to put the together these boxes and then distribute them. Then we're meeting people and we're serving people and it's great. And everyone's involved and it's cool.The pastor was resistant to it for bullshit reasons. What size socks is would we get, would we be competing with other homeless ministries in the area? What are we talking about? at this point? And so it ended up not coming to fruition because I think two things, one, I think he thought his thoughts were more valuable than ours.And two, I think he was scared because if I'm able to do ministry better than he is, that's a threat, you know? And, and, and I don't think he was like the most narcissistic person I've ever met in my life. I just think it's bred into the culture. A preacher is gonna be either De'Vannon: really, really, really strong or really, [01:06:00] really, really, really weak mm-hmm okay.And that's just the way it is that the problem is you can't just look at them and tell on which side of the fence they're falling. Right. You will rarely ever hear a preacher say, they're sorry. About anything. John: And when they, without a million caveats, at least at least a De'Vannon: million, and when they change their, I hear them say some shit like this.When they, when they find out they've been wrong about something, they'll say like a, I don't preach that the way I used to, or my, my thinking is evolving. So basically bitch, you're saying you were wrong. And then, so you're not gonna apologize to the people who you misinformed for the past years before your mind changed.Nope. John: Well, and even if they do, this is where the narcissism comes in. Even if there's apology, the apology, isn't about the people hurt. The apology is about them and their growth. And you know how, oh, I, you know, when I was a young preacher, when I was preaching at 24, I was wrong about this, this and this, but now listen to how great I am.Like you're saying, who cares about all those people? He hurt [01:07:00] it's about him or, or she now be progressive there's evil women pastors now too. Gotta be, gotta be progressive progress at that. De'Vannon: Yeah, you're right. They have a lot of eye statements and stuff like that, and they don't care. And, and it's in the book of Jeremiah, I think 21 where the Lord has a gripe against these preachers who, who scatter his sheep and is flock and they don't turn around and go and look for them.And you know, all of us who've been kicked out discarded and everything like that. Like when I got kicked out, no one called no one wrote, no one did anything. Right. You know, I don't know if I was just classified as a heretic and just, just gone. But I mean, the PA the priest, the priest was supposed to put a concerted effort into getting anybody who they lose instead of just charging along trucking along and just writing more books and selling out more arenas and filling, you know, getting more money, you know, you know, fuck a next book, bitch.You lost a member. You're supposed to stop everything to go and find them. [01:08:00]John: Yeah, that that mentality has honestly never been a as, as long as churches have existed. That's never been the attitude of church leadership. Even if it was supposedly commanded by Jesus it's it's, it's never been present in history.Oh, well, De'Vannon: shit. So then the last thing that we're going to talk about and we're gonna have to have you back on and really dig into your book. Mm-hmm ca