Podcasts about This Country

I år er det femti år siden Monty Python and the Holy Grail kom på kino, og det er femti år siden humorserien Hotell i særklasse for første gang ble vist på BBC. Kulturjournalist Elise Dybvig har vært på Folketeateret i Oslo for å se den 85 år gamle britiske komikerlegenden John Cleese i levende live. Det var en ganske tragisk affære. Det var også en påminnelse om at det fantes en tid da man i en vanlig samtale kunne si at man foretrakk «britisk humor». En kikk på dagens strømmetjenester gir derimot inntrykk av at britene har sluttet å lage humor. Er det – som med alt annet – brexit som har skylden?Britiske humorprogram nevnt i episoden:Peep Show (2003-2015)Monty Python's Flying Circus (1969-1973)Fleabag (2016-2019)This Country (2017-2020)Alan Partridge, figuren spilt av skuespiller Steve Coogan i film, tv-serier og podkast.Aksels anbefaling: Hørespillene De dödas röster og Exorcismen i Eksjö på Sveriges Radio Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This Country of Ours by H E Marshall - Chapter 79: Fillmore - The Underground Railroad ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Following last week's laugh-out-loud revisit with Joe Lycett, we're celebrating another standout star of Amazon Prime's Last One Laughing, it's the brilliantly funny Daisy May Cooper!Best known for her BAFTA-winning work on This Country, as well as her features on Am I Being Unreasonable? and Taskmaster, Daisy joined us back in 2020 for a hilarious and heartfelt chat about her rise through the comedy world, what it's really like collaborating with her brother and creative partner Charlie, and the brutal reality of trying to break through as a young actor.You're in for a treat with one of the UK's funniest and most refreshingly honest voices in comedy, enjoy!For all the latest news, click here to follow us on Instagram!***Please take the time to rate and review us on Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your pods. It means a great deal to the show and will make it easier for other potential listeners to find us. Thanks!*** Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This Country of Ours by H E Marshall - Chapter 78: Taylor - Union or Disunion ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

This Country of Ours by H E Marshall - Chapter 77: Polk - The Finding Of Gold ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

This Country of Ours by H E Marshall - Chapter 76: Polk - How Much Land Was Added To The United States ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

This Country of Ours by H E Marshall - Chapter 75: Tyler - Florida Becomes A State ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

This Country of Ours by H E Marshall - Chapter 74: Harrison - The Hero of Tippecanoe ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

This Country of Ours by H E Marshall - Chapter 73: Jackson - "Liberty and Union, Now and Forever" - Van Buren - Hard Times ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

This Country of Ours by H E Marshall - Chapter 72: Adams - The Tarriff of Abominations ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Writer, actor and all-round legend Daisy May Cooper joins Liv for a hilarious and frank chat about life in the spotlight.They celebrate the successes, including Daisy's four BAFTAs and her hit shows This Country and Am I Being Unreasonable, plus unpick the less sparkly sides of life including Daisy's anxiety, her time at RADA and celebrities who aren't really all that.Expect to laugh out loud too as Liv and Daisy (twins separated at birth?!) talk smelly penises, the paranomal and Pat Butcher's chins.New episodes every Thursday!Keep up to date on all socials: https://linktr.ee/sowrongitsright

This Country of Ours by H E Marshall - Chapter 71: Monroe - The First Whispers of a Storm - Monroe's Famous Doctrine ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

This Country of Ours by H E Marshall - Chapter 70: Madison - War With Great Britain ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Bush & Richie's guest on Hometime is the star of This Country & Never Mind The Buzzcocks, the hilarious Daisy May Cooper. She joined Bush & Richie to talk all about the West Country, experiences of the supernatural and of course, the second series of Am I Being Unreasonable?.

Shane concluded the last episode with a brief clip from an interview he recorded years ago with respected author and theologian, J.I. Packer. On this program, he decided to feature more of that conversation, while also weaving together other interviews and man-on-the-street segments related to the prevalence of narcissistic beliefs and attitudes in American Christianity.SHOW NOTESBooksKnowing God, J.I. PackerSoul Searching, Christian SmithChristless Christianity, Michael HortonReaching Out Without Dumbing Down, Marva DawnPeculiar Speech, Peculiar Speech, William WillimonThe Christian Mind, Harry BlamiresThe Narcissism Epidemic, Twenge & CampbellChristianity & Liberalism, J. Gresham MachenCreed or Chaos? by Dorothy Sayers — FREEArticlesThe Story of Us, Shane RosenthalThe Megachurch Century, Shane RosenthalThe Tower of Babel, Shane RosenthalThe Mormonization of American Christianity, Shane RosenthalFinding Christ in All of Scripture (PDF), Shane RosenthalLiberalism or Christianity?, J. Gresham MachenThe Importance of Christian Scholarship, by J. Gresham MachenTheologically, This Country is in a State of Utter Chaos, Dorothy SayersWhy Johnny Can't Preach, T. David GordonAudioJacob's Ladder, Humble Skeptic #63Babylon, Humble Skeptic #65The Earliest Gospel, Humble Skeptic. #45The Effect of Media & Technology, Humble Skeptic #30Grounded in the Gospel, WHI #986 with J.I. PackerAn Interview with R.C. Sproul, WHI #909The Preached Word, WHI 972 with William WillimonTeen Spirituality, WHI #730 with Christian SmithAlmost Christian, WHI #1017 with Kenda Creasy DeanGetting Over Yourself, WHI #1588 with Dean InserraThe Narcissism Epidemic, WHI #956 with Jean TwengeVideoAmerican Gospel: Christ AloneAmerican Gospel: Christ CrucifiedWe Need Your Help!Consider supporting The Humble Skeptic podcast by making a one-time gift or upgrading to a paid subscription via Substack ($5.95 per month, $59 per year). Use the button below for more information about giving options. Get full access to The Humble Skeptic at www.humbleskeptic.com/subscribe

Actor and writer Daisy May Cooper shot to fame with This Country, the mockumentary about rural poverty in the Cotswolds that she wrote and starred in with her brother Charlie. She followed that with the lead in BBC/HBO show Rain Dogs and in 2022 she co-wrote and starred in the twisting female-friendship thriller Am I Being Unreasonable? With the second series about to drop on BBC 1 and BBC iPlayer Daisy joins Clare McDonnell in the Woman's Hour studio. A new BBC podcast has uncovered some shocking allegations of grooming, trafficking and sexual exploitation linked to a yoga movement. The Bad Guru podcast follows Miranda who joined a yoga class in the UK which she discovered had links to the Atman Federation, an international yoga movement led by the Romanian guru Gregorian Bivalaru. After becoming part of the wider movement, Miranda says that she was groomed and sexually exploited. Clare hears from Miranda and from the podcast's presenter, investigative journalist Cat McShane. From her close relationship with her mum to her mental health struggles as a teenager, 24-year-old Fiona-Lee from Howden in Yorkshire writes earnestly about the emotional rollercoaster that is adolescence to adulthood. Her EP, ‘Nothing Compares to Nineteen,' is released on the 7th of March and she joins Clare to perform the track 'Lavender'.Presenter: Clare McDonnell Producer: Laura Northedge

This Country of Ours by H E Marshall - Chapter 69: Madison - The Shooting Star And The Prophet ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

This Country of Ours by H E Marshall - Chapter 68: Jefferson - About An American Who Wanted To Be A King ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

This Country of Ours by H E Marshall - Chapter 67: Jefferson - How the Door Into the Far West Was Opened ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

This Country of Ours by H E Marshall - Chapter 66: Jefferson - How the Territory of the United States Was Doubled ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Kenneth and Marshall share one mic and OK gets his own. Big tech guys are tailoring online discourse for right wing climate change deniers. So instead of any leadership discussing decades of ecocide we’re stuck on woke homeless people. We think about Octavia Butler and Mike Davis and how it isn’t enough to know and … Continue reading "213 – This Country is Unfit for Human Life"

This Country of Ours by H E Marshall - Chapter 65: Adams - How He Kept Peace With France ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

This Country of Ours by H E Marshall - Chapter 64: Washington First in War, First in Peace ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

This Country of Ours by H E Marshall - Chapter 63: A Turning Point in the World's History ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

This Country of Ours by H E Marshall - Chapter 62: The Story of a Great Crime ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

This Country of Ours by H E Marshall - Chapter 61: The Battle of Monmouth - The Story of Captain Molly ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

This Country of Ours by H E Marshall - Chapter 60: War On The Sea ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Hello to you listening in Round Lake, Curtis, Michigan!Coming to you from Whidbey Island, Washington this is Stories From Women Who Walk with 60 Seconds for Motivate Your Monday and your host, Diane Wyzga.Things in this country are upside down and backward in ways we have never ever seen before. Is that good? No! It's a nightmare. What do we do now? I'm glad you asked.First off, you can rely on me to be here with you and for you. Thanks to your devoted listening this global podcast is edging close to 200,000 plays. There will be stories and more to inform, delight, inspire, and motivate in the days ahead.As to, “What do we do now?” get comfy and relish Colorado Poet Laureat Andrea Gibson's Letter to a Friend. Click HEREor read the letter in the Episode NotesPractical Tip: Pay particular attention to how grief and fear can give way to relief, clarity, what needs doing, and how to go about it. Ask yourself: “What is my job in this moment? What do I specifically have to offer? Where can I be of most use and service to others? How can I creatively, actively participate in  pulling the arc of the moral universe toward justice for all?A tight bundle of sticks cannot be broken as easily as a single branch. We are in this together. Our lives are in our hands. More than ever before this is our opportunity to cherish life and work for it! Colorado Poet Laureate Andrea Gibson's Letter To A Friend After the ElectionBy Andrea GibsonNovember 16, 2024Architects of ChangeFriend,I am writing about the text you sent the morning after the election. “What do we do now?” you asked. My first response was to stare blankly at a blank wall for an hour. But I've had a week to sit with it, and here's what I want to share:Last April, after two years of chemotherapy, when my oncologist told me the cancer was now considered incurable, I felt the expected fear and grief. But something I didn't tell you was this—I also felt relief. Why relief? Because when I heard the system say, “We can't save you,” it was the first time since my diagnosis that I felt as if my life was in my hands. Watching the election, I felt something similar: grief, fear. Then this thought—Our lives are in our hands. They always were, but it's clearer than ever now.I think I've told you about my friend Liza. She was one of the most committed activists I've ever known. She built her life like an altar to social justice. She was also a Buddhist. A couple of weeks before her death, when asked how she wanted to be remembered, she said, “Just don't let anyone say I was the best at anything. It's so obnoxiously American.” As we look for creative paths forward, I want to beg “the left” to stop tearing each other to shreds over who is The Best at fighting for change. When we allow our egos to do our heart's work, what needs to get done doesn't get done. I understand that people are frantic for a clear and direct answer. But it's so important to choose curiosity over certainty in a moment that asks us to create something entirely new. This is that moment.I keep asking myself, “What is my job in this moment? What do I specifically have to offer?” It's empowering to ask those questions because no one's job will be the same. There were many years of my life that I did not feel I was actively participating in change unless I was in the streets protesting.  As my health worsened, I knew that wasn't where I would be of most service. Creatively explore where you might be most useful. Throw a What's My Job party and explore the question with your community. Friends may reflect a specific talent or gift they see in you that you haven't yet recognized.My friend Oak, (great name, I know) used to say, “If we can't imagine it, we can't create it.” Right now I'm putting active energy into imagining what's possible. What does a compassionate world look like? What would it feel like to wake up every morning to a planet fueled by community and not capitalism?  When I'm glued to my phone doom-scrolling the news, it's almost impossible for me to creatively imagine, but anytime I've got my feet in the grass I open in a new way.  Even in a city, you can notice the way your body changes with the seasons. You can mirror the earth's steady and persistent pace. Save the seeds of an apple. Grow veggies in plant pots in the windowsill of your apartment. Feed a stranger. Drive a neighbor through the sunshine to a doctor's appointment in another state. Never forget how alone we are not. The moss, the mountains, the redwood tree, the marigold, the mourning dove calling for her love's return—are our allies. Every natural thing in this world is invested in the peace of this world. All that is good and gracious whispers, “We are with you.”I keep thinking about something I learned in my early 20's—the rural poor are more likely to survive a catastrophic world event than the wealthiest billionaires. It's really out of touch to use the word educated to refer solely to college-educated people. Everyone is educated in their own unique way and those of us who had the privilege of attending college are very often the least educated in regards to understanding that we are not just connected to nature, we are nature. To not know that is to be disconnected from our power source.Two decades ago, I was partnered with a journalist who was reporting on the invasion of Iraq and the occupation of the West Bank in Palestine. What she'd witnessed was horrific, but she was deeply struck by the gratitude of the people in comparison to those of us living in relative safety in the US. Since that time, I have understood that the most grateful people in the world are rarely those who appear to have the most to be grateful for. I hope we each feel a deep responsibility to be grateful for our lives through this time, to wholly cherish every morning we are alive to see the sun. I know the upcoming years will be challenging. But if the upcoming years are also cherished, they will be less challenging.I understand why so many people are sharing what they think we should be feeling right now. Though there is love at the heart of that demand, there is no such thing as a moral emotion. No one owes the world their misery. What we owe is our active participation in finding creative and compassionate paths forward. Every activist I have ever known who believed they owed the world their unhappiness has burned out. If we consciously fuel our joy, if we put our attention on the world's beauty, we will have far more strength and stamina to show up to the world's pain.We need stamina. The 73 million people who voted for Trump appear to be more energized than ever. And it's clear to me that the narrative that every Trump voter is “ignorant and hateful” is hurting our movements. 95% of our marginalized friends have at least one family member they deeply trust who voted for Trump this year. Most people, regardless of how they are voting, believe they are voting for a better world. There is a terrifying amount of hate in our country, yes. But there is far more fear. Hate is the end of a conversation. Fear isn't always. I've been on the lookout for moments when an honest and respectful conversation might reach the root of someone else's fear.These conversations can surface big emotions. A lot of what we're navigating right now can, so I've been thinking of ways we can come together to build inner resilience. There is so much we can learn from each other in regards to working with difficult emotions to minimize the time we are undone by them. I'll say it more bluntly—we can't be chronically destroyed by microaggressions and also be people who can organize around the violent deportation of millions of our community members or any other inhumane cruelty expected. This moment in history isn't only about rooting in our values, it's about rooting in our tenacity, courage, and strength.Here's to our tenacity, courage, and strength, friend. I know so much feels heavy right now.  It is heavy. But never forget that our hearts are community gardens. I think we'll all start seeing how much we have on our side once we each begin to see how much we have to give.Love, Andrea  Originally published November 14, 2024 in “Things That Don't Suck: One Poet's Quest to Uncover What Shifts When We Shift our Attention.”You're always invited: “Come for the stories - stay for the magic!” Speaking of magic, would you subscribe and spread the word with a generous 5-star review and comment - it helps us all - and join us next time!Meanwhile, stop by my Quarter Moon Story Arts website to:✓ Check out Services I Offer,✓ For a no-obligation conversation about your communication challenges, get in touch with me today✓ Stay current with Diane as “Wyzga on Words” on Substack and on LinkedInStories From Women Who Walk Production TeamPodcaster: Diane F Wyzga & Quarter Moon Story ArtsMusic: Mer's Waltz from Crossing the Waters by Steve Schuch & Night Heron MusicAll content and image © 2019 to Present Quarter Moon Story Arts. All rights reserved. 

This Country of Ours by H E Marshall - Chapter 58: Burgoyne's Campaign - Bemis Heights and Saratoga ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

This Country of Ours by H E Marshall - Chapter 57: Burgoyne's Campaign - Bennington and Oriskany ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Yeah Baby!We are going back to the 60's to celebrate the greatest albums of that decade.We are joined by actress and wonderful human being Ashley McGuire. You'll know Ashley from Eastenders, This Country, Harry Potter, The Gentlemen, Mallory Towers and loads more. Ashley has many great stories including how she, nearly, was in a Star Wars movie!Enjoy!You can listen to our chats with Ashley on our 'This Country' podcast right here - https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/wtaf-a-this-country-podcast/id1298147839SOCIAL MEDIAwww.twitter.com/toptenpodswww.instagram.com/toptenpodswww.facebook.com/toptenpodsEMAILGet in touch with us right here:toptenpods@hotmail.comPATREONCome and support the podcast at Patreon for some great rewards including video playlists that accompany the podcast episodes - www.patreon.com/toptenpodsEPISODE LINKSApple: apple.co/3ica0FySpotify: spoti.fi/3BRhkypYouTube: https://bit.ly/3jQETisMERCH https://www.podcastmerch.co.uk/170026-top-10-of-anythingLINKTREEhttps://linktr.ee/toptenpodsBUY US A COFFEEhttps://ko-fi.com/toptenpodsSupport this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-top-ten-of-anything-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This Country of Ours by H E Marshall - Chapter 56: The Darkest Hour - Trenton and Princeton ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

This Country of Ours by H E Marshall - Chapter 55: The Birth of a Great Nation ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

This Country of Ours by H E Marshall - Chapter 54: The War in Canada ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

This Country of Ours by H E Marshall - Chapter 53: The First Thrust - The Battle of Bunker Hill ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

This Country of Ours by H E Marshall - Chapter 52: Paul Revere's Ride - The Unsheathing of the Sword ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

This Country of Ours by H E Marshall - Chapter 51: The Boston Tea-Party ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

This Country of Ours by H E Marshall - Chapter 50: The Rebellion of Pontiac ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

This Country of Ours by H E Marshall - Chapter 49: The End of French Rule in America ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

This Country of Ours by H E Marshall - Chapter 48: How a Terrible Disaster Befell the British Army ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

This Country of Ours by H E Marshall - Chapter 47: The Mississippi Bubble ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

This Country of Ours by H E Marshall - Chapter 46: King William's and Queen Anne's War ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

This Country of Ours by H E Marshall - Chapter 45: How the Mississippi Was Discovered ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

This Country of Ours by H E Marshall - Chapter 44: The Founding of Georgia ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

This Country of Ours by H E Marshall - Chapter 43: War With The Indians In North and South Carolina ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

This Country of Ours by H E Marshall - Chapter 42: The Founding of North and South Carolina ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

On The New Mason Jar today, we bring you a conversation Cindy and Dawn had with the AmblesideOnline Advisory members Anne White, Donna-Jean Breckenridge, Karen Glass and Leslie Laurio. How the friendship of the AO Advisory developed and has been a gift for each member throughout the years Did the Advisory members use the whole AO curriculum as written? What about those fears about missing out on something if a family doesn't do everything in the curriculum perfectly? The simplicity of the Charlotte Mason approach to language arts Do any of the Advisory doubt Charlotte Mason's methods now that they have all graduated their children? Are there any things that aren't common knowledge that the Advisory wants to share? Books and Links Mentioned: AmblesideOnline Six Voices, One Story by Donna-Jean Breckenridge, et. al. In Vital Harmony by Karen Glass For the Children's Sake by Susan Schaeffer Macaulay AO Advisory Bios: Anne White grew up and still lives in southern Ontario.  She anticipated David Epstein's Range by changing her university major three times and stretching a four-year degree into seven, but she did complete a BA in creative writing, and later added a BEd in adult education. In the thirty years between those things, she (and her husband) raised three homeschooled daughters, who have each found their own Range. Anne has been associated with AmblesideOnline since its beginning, and is the author of several books about Charlotte Mason's philosophy. Donna-Jean Breckenridge lives with her family in northern New Jersey. She is honored to be a founding member of the AmblesideOnline Advisory, and she continues to serve AO's community while homeschooling her granddaughters. She is a public speaker, writer (This Country of Ours – Annotated, Edited, and Updated and Six Voices, One Story: The Heart of AmblesideOnline), and audiobook narrator. She counts her greatest roles as mom to her four children, grandmother to five, and grateful friend. Her heart's desire is to encourage others that God is safe to trust, no matter what.  After living 25 years in Krakow, Poland, Karen Glass currently lives in Indiana with her husband and youngest daughter. She is a founding member of AmblesideOnline and home educated her four children through graduation. She is the author of several books related to Charlotte Mason and speaks and teaches on the philosophy and methods (especially narration). She reads, writes, tries to grow things, and has been known to crochet doilies and knit socks. Leslie Laurio is an art school dropout, a veteran, a homeschool mom, and one of the founders and original creators of AmblesideOnline. She and her husband live in Tennessee and have four children who were homeschooled all the way from kindergarten through high school, and are now married and scattered across the eastern US pursuing various careers and passions. She has paraphrased the Charlotte Mason series, Parables From Nature, and other works. The person who can live upon his own intellectual resources and never know a dull hour (though anxious and sad hours will come) is indeed enviable in these days of intellectual inanition, when we depend upon spectacular entertainments pour passer le temps [to pass the time]. If knowledge means so much to us, “What is knowledge?” the reader asks. We can give only a negative answer. Knowledge is not instruction, information, scholarship, a well-stored memory. It is passed, like the light of a torch, from mind to mind, and the flame can be kindled at original minds only. Thought, we know, breeds thought; it is as vital thought touches our minds that our ideas are vitalized, and out of our ideas comes our conduct of life… The direct and immediate impact of great minds upon his own mind is necessary to the education of a child. Charlotte Mason, Towards a Philosophy of Education, p. 303 Let us, out of reverence for the children, be modest; let us not stake their interests on the hope that this or that new way would lead to great results if people had only the courage to follow it. It is exciting to become a pioneer; but, for the children's sake, it may be well to constrain ourselves to follow those roads only by which we know that persons have arrived, or those newer roads which offer evident and assured means of progress towards a desired end. Charlotte Mason, School Education, p. 245

This Country of Ours by H E Marshall - Chapter 41: How Benjamin Franklin Came to Philadelphia ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

This Country of Ours by H E Marshall - Chapter 40: The Founding of Pennsylvania ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

The general election campaign for President is officially underway... Scranton Joe delivers a take-no-prisoners State of the Union that leaves his supporters ecstatic and Republicans sputtering. Spoiler alert: the 2024 Campaign theme is a sequel movie “This Country for Old Men” Super Tuesday was a good day for former athletes who want to be Senators: one-time NFL star Colin Allred wins the Democratic nomination to run against Ted Cruz; in California, Michigan State University alum and All-Star baseball player Steve Garvey survives the jungle primary, setting him up to lose to Congressman Adam Schiff. And it was a great day for Jason Palmer who, just like Mike Bloomberg in 2020, swept to victory in the American Samoa caucus. The Supreme Court effectively decides the 14th amendment prohibiting insurrectionists from seeking federal office is just a suggestion. More turmoil at Michigan State University: as a new president takes over in East Lansing, two trustees face the possibility of being fired and a third could be censured — the aftermath of the firing of football coach Mel Tucker. Our guest this week is University of Michigan professor, former U.S. Attorney and MSNBC contributor Barbara McQuade discussing her new book which amplifies the alarm about the role of misinformation in the 2024 campaign as well as the Supreme Court's ruling in the Trump ballot access case. McQuade served as the United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Michigan from 2010 to 2017. As part of President Donald Trump's 2017 dismissal of U.S. attorneys, she stepped down in March 2017. She is a professor of law at the University of Michigan Law School, the author of "Attack from Within" and a legal analyst for NBC News and MSNBC. Before joining the U.S. Attorney's office, McQuade practiced law at the firm of Butzel Long in Detroit and served as a law clerk for Hon. Bernard A. Friedman on the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan. McQuade started her career as an assistant U.S. Attorney in the Eastern District of Michigan from 1998 until becoming U.S. Attorney in that same district. She was also a professor of law at University of Detroit Mercy School of Law from 2003 to 2009. McQuade was appointed by President Barack Obama and started her term as U.S. Attorney on January 4, 2010. Upon taking office in January 2010, During her tenure as U.S. Attorney, the office reached convictions in several high-profile cases, including the case of former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick on public corruption charges; the conviction and life sentence of Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the would-be al-Qaeda shoe-bomber behind the 2009 Christmas Day bomb plot to destroy an airplane in flight from the Netherlands to Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport; the conviction of former Michigan Supreme Court justice Diane Hathaway on bank fraud charges; and the convictions of former employees for stealing trade secrets from Detroit automakers. In 2017, McQuade became a regular contributor to MSNBC, initially commenting primarily on purported scandals related to President Donald Trump, though the range of topics she analyzes has become broader over time. Since 2021, she also co-hosts the #SistersInLaw podcast with Jill Wine-Banks, Joyce Vance and Kimberly Atkins Stohr. McQuade was born in Detroit. She received her undergraduate degree in 1987 from the University of Michigan and her J.D. in 1991 from the University of Michigan Law School. Video: Highlights of President Biden's 2024 State of the Union address (via Politico) =========================== This episode is sponsored in part by EPIC ▪ MRA,  a full service survey research firm with expertise in: • Public Opinion Surveys • Market Research Studies • Live Telephone Surveys • On-Line and Automated Surveys • Focus Group Research • Bond Proposals - Millage Campaigns • Political Campaigns & Consulting • Ballot Proposals - Issue Advocacy Research